Feature status
Features & status
Cardo Maximus features by department: what's available now can go live today; features marked "Coming Q1 2027" are not available yet; features marked "Coming later" on individual pages have no date, so keep doing what you do today.
Available now By department
On the shop floor
Production
- Drop in a rush order; the schedule recalculates — Production
- Unscheduled orders and line load at a glance — Production
- Material availability check before an order starts — Production
- Shop-floor reporting on one screen — Production
- Supervisor sign-off makes it count — Production
- Void a mistaken report and the numbers reverse automatically — Production
- Managers see the whole plant; the floor sees its own work — Production
- Dispatch board and labor-hours board — Production
Quality & traceability
- Four inspection points, one set of pass/fail rules — Quality & traceability
- Sampling standards set once — Quality & traceability
- Quality dashboard any time — Quality & traceability
- One lot number, the whole story — Quality & traceability
- Trace from raw material to finished goods and back — Quality & traceability
- Every operation and inspection on the lot number — Quality & traceability
- Full audit records in one search — Quality & traceability
- Nonconformances followed through to the fix — Quality & traceability
- Overdue items turn red automatically — Quality & traceability
- See who's still outstanding before close-out — Quality & traceability
Warehouse & materials
- Scan to receive and issue; count one area at a time — Warehouse & materials
- Receive and look up lots on a phone — Warehouse & materials
- Stock that's always current, with expiry alerts — Warehouse & materials
- Lot and serial number management — Warehouse & materials
- Kitting and issuing without mix-ups — Warehouse & materials
- Scan to confirm item and lot at issue — Warehouse & materials
Equipment & maintenance
- Maintenance orders open when due; scan and start — Equipment & maintenance
- Asset and fixture register — Equipment & maintenance
- Scan the tag and record step by step on a phone — Equipment & maintenance
- Request, dispatch, repair, and the parts deduct themselves — Equipment & maintenance
- Schedule routes around machines under repair — Equipment & maintenance
- Machine status comes in on its own — Equipment & maintenance
- A machine fault lights up on the 3D plant map — Equipment & maintenance
- Click through to the station panel — Equipment & maintenance
Equipment monitoring
- The whole floor on one screen — Equipment monitoring
- Monitoring screens laid out like your plant and lines — Equipment monitoring
- Live values in any browser — Equipment monitoring
- Shows when the data stopped if a connection drops — Equipment monitoring
- Every alarm gets an owner and a record — Equipment monitoring
- Alarm rules you set yourself — Equipment monitoring
- Alarm history any time — Equipment monitoring
- Trends and reports, ready every day — Equipment monitoring
- Trend curves from one hour to one week — Equipment monitoring
- Daily and monthly equipment reports — Equipment monitoring
- Alarm statistics — Equipment monitoring
- New or old, any brand: each has a way to connect — Equipment monitoring
- One factory node per plant — Equipment monitoring
- Data sources and data points managed in one place — Equipment monitoring
- Machine signals mapped to the equipment master — Equipment monitoring
- Stack lights, buzzers and scanners connect too — Equipment monitoring
With customers & suppliers
Customers & opportunities
- Every customer on one page — Customers & opportunities
- Customer master with several contacts — Customers & opportunities
- One page per customer with the account at a glance — Customers & opportunities
- Business cards become contacts — Customers & opportunities
- Customer messages in one place — Customers & opportunities
- Telegram and WhatsApp messages too — Customers & opportunities
- Colleagues can step in when someone is on leave — Customers & opportunities
- As deals move, the forecast moves with them — Customers & opportunities
- Six opportunity stages with a weighted forecast — Customers & opportunities
- Sales forecast plans — Customers & opportunities
- Credit limit checks with manager override — Customers & opportunities
- When something goes wrong, you know which customers got it — Customers & opportunities
- Lot lookup shows which customers received it — Customers & opportunities
In the office
R&D and engineering data
- One bill of materials, every version accounted for — R&D and engineering data
- Multi-version, multi-level bills of materials — R&D and engineering data
- Effective and end dates on every version — R&D and engineering data
- Feeder lists and packaging specs on the part number — R&D and engineering data
- Routings and recipes: how you make it, written into the system — R&D and engineering data
- Routings with parallel branches — R&D and engineering data
- Production recipes — R&D and engineering data
- Process parameters and control plans — R&D and engineering data
- Work instructions take effect only after approval — R&D and engineering data
- Versioned work and inspection instructions with effective periods — R&D and engineering data
- Controlled-document acknowledgments and ISO clause mapping — R&D and engineering data
- From concept to end of life, every stage on record — R&D and engineering data
- Six product lifecycle stages with approval records — R&D and engineering data
- Mass production readiness check — R&D and engineering data
- Manufacturing models tracked from draft to released and frozen — R&D and engineering data
Approvals & admin
- One click to approve, from email or chat — Approvals & admin
- Requests and status in the chat mini-app — Approvals & admin
- Chat mini-app in Traditional Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese — Approvals & admin
- Every pending approval in one place on your computer — Approvals & admin
- Hand off or set a proxy approver — Approvals & admin
- Design your own forms; several people fill, several steps approve — Approvals & admin
- Test how many people an approval rule finds — Approvals & admin
- Leave and overtime approved online, cancelable after approval — Approvals & admin
- Skills and qualification records — Approvals & admin
- Meeting rooms and vehicles never double-book — Approvals & admin
- Post once, see who's read it — Approvals & admin
- Always find the current ISO document — Approvals & admin
- Personal calendar — Approvals & admin
Documents & knowledge
- The auditor names a clause; you click, it's there — Documents & knowledge
- Versions and effective status — Documents & knowledge
- Version comparison — Documents & knowledge
- Audit records — Documents & knowledge
- ISO clause mapping — Documents & knowledge
- Drawings and attachments right on the record — Documents & knowledge
- PDF and image preview — Documents & knowledge
- Automatic numbering and watermarks — Documents & knowledge
- Review reminders and sign-off — Documents & knowledge
- Permissions per folder and per document — Documents & knowledge
Useful in every department
How AI helps
- You decide what it can see — How AI helps
- Permissions by person and role — How AI helps
- Anything that changes data asks you first — How AI helps
- Pulls your data together — How AI helps
- Tracks progress — How AI helps
- Helps analyze problems — How AI helps
- Answers factory questions — How AI helps
- Runs routine tasks — How AI helps
Coming Q1 2027 By department
On the shop floor
Production
- Overall equipment effectiveness and management dashboards — Production
- Material requirements and capacity planning — Production
Equipment & maintenance
- Records kept even when the network drops — Equipment & maintenance
With customers & suppliers
Customers & opportunities
- Quote to order to shipment and invoice — Customers & opportunities
- Returns and credit notes — Customers & opportunities
- Bulk import of online store orders — Customers & opportunities
Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Quote to cash on one document — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Statements, aging and open items export to Excel — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Requisition to payment with three-way matching, so nothing slips — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Supplier quotes awarded line by line — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Scanned receiving with inspection opened right after — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Three-way invoice matching with tolerances you set — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Port, freight and exchange-rate information right next to the PO — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Month-end has a workbench; statements any time — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Journal entries created automatically — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Balance sheet, income statement and aging — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Expense claims into approvals — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Each company reports separately — Orders, purchasing & accounting
- Currencies and exchange rates set up and revalued — Orders, purchasing & accounting
Supply chain & purchasing
- From requisition to credit note, one line — Supply chain & purchasing
- Requisition to quote comparison to purchase order — Supply chain & purchasing
- Returns and credit notes on the same line — Supply chain & purchasing
- Framework agreements — Supply chain & purchasing
- What to buy, what to make: worked out first — Supply chain & purchasing
- Material requirements and master scheduling — Supply chain & purchasing
- Capacity requirements check — Supply chain & purchasing
- Planned orders convert to requisitions or production orders automatically — Supply chain & purchasing
- Which suppliers are reliable? Let the record speak — Supply chain & purchasing
- Supplier master with several contacts and ratings — Supply chain & purchasing
- Inspection-exempt status — Supply chain & purchasing
- Supplier ratings on four measures — Supply chain & purchasing
- Clear ownership of consigned and customer-supplied material — Supply chain & purchasing
- Exchange rates, freight and ports, right where purchasing works — Supply chain & purchasing
- Exchange rates and bulk commodity prices — Supply chain & purchasing
- Freight indices and port conditions — Supply chain & purchasing
- Carriers and trade statistics — Supply chain & purchasing
- Sanctions list screening — Supply chain & purchasing
- Natural disaster alerts — Supply chain & purchasing
In the office
R&D and engineering data
- Dedicated engineering change orders — R&D and engineering data
Approvals & admin
- Chat notification when it's your turn to approve — Approvals & admin
Carbon inventory
- Enter the usage. Get the emissions. — Carbon inventory
- Emission sources and activity data — Carbon inventory
- ISO 14064-1 categories — Carbon inventory
- Every figure traceable to its factor and source — Carbon inventory
- Results freeze into versions, so verification has something to stand on — Carbon inventory
- Verifier data package assembled for you — Carbon inventory
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Names you've heard, and where they live in Cardo Maximus
| Name you've heard | In Cardo Maximus | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing operations management | Production | Available now |
| Quality management system | Quality & traceability | Available now |
| Inventory management system | Warehouse & materials | Available now |
| Maintenance management | Equipment & maintenance | Available now |
| Machine monitoring system | Equipment monitoring | Available now |
| Customer relationship management | Customers & opportunities | Available now (quote to shipment coming Q1 2027) |
| Inventory, invoicing and accounting software | Orders, purchasing & accounting: the transaction and finance core | Coming Q1 2027 |
| Tax filing and payroll | Runs alongside your existing accounting and payroll software | Coming later (see the FAQ on the Orders, purchasing & accounting page) |
| Purchasing and supply chain management | Supply chain & purchasing | Coming Q1 2027 |
| Product data and engineering management | R&D and engineering data | Available now (engineering change orders coming Q1 2027) |
| E-approvals and form workflows | Approvals & admin | Available now |
| Announcements, calendar and personal home page | Approvals & admin | Available now |
| Document and knowledge management | Documents & knowledge | Available now |
| Carbon inventory | Carbon inventory | Coming Q1 2027 |
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