Manufacturing Analytics and Reporting

Your production data lives in an ERP, a few databases, and a stack of spreadsheets someone updates by hand. Get one real-time view of it all: Reports, dashboards, and portals over the data you already have. Your team can build them with m-Power, or ours can do it for you.

1,500+
Customers worldwide
Since 1981
45+ years in business
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Rating on G2

Get One Real-Time View of Your Operation

Pull your ERP, quality system, and scheduling spreadsheets into live reports, dashboards, and portals that show the whole operation at once. Build them yourself, have us build them, or split the work. It all runs in your environment and fits your process.

Plant Operations ViewEvery system, one screen
Data feeding this view
ERP: Orders & inventory
Quality database
Production schedule
Who sees it
Shop floorScheduling+ 4 roles
Live data, straight from the source
01

See all your data in one place

Join the systems that never talk to each other, so every meeting starts from the same numbers.

02

Get the reports your ERP can't produce

Build over the ERP's database, not inside its code, so vendor upgrades stay safe.

03

Put live numbers on the shop floor

KPI dashboards on monitors across the floor, so a line that falls behind gets fixed today instead of discussed next week.

04

Check the floor from any device

Every solution is a responsive web app, with nothing to install.

05

Give the whole plant access

There are no per-user fees. Rolling a dashboard out to 500 people costs the same as five.

06

Make it fit your process

Off-the-shelf tools make you work their way. A custom build matches how your operation actually runs.

Solve It Your Way: Software, Services, or Both

Bring reporting and analytics to your data in one of three ways: Build everything yourself with m-Power, have us build for you, or a combination of both. Either way, you get the custom reporting you need, backed by a team that makes sure you succeed.

Build it yourself with m-Power

Your team builds reports, dashboards, and portals over your existing databases with m-Power. Support is staffed by consultants who use m-Power every day.

Have us build it for you

Tell our services team what you need and they build it over your data. 96% of first-time services clients come back for another project.

Overall it's a big success. We have lots of information available now that just wasn't possible beforehand. It is so much more than a BI tool, you can write a whole new system with m-Power. Basically, we can deliver anything now.

Matt Craig, Senior Technical Specialist, IBP Group

I can now do five projects in the time that I would have done one project.

Roisin Bowen, Systems Developer, Autochair

We've really managed a huge return on our investment because we haven't needed a specific developer for these reporting needs.

Andrew Gilbert, IT Director, Showplace Wood Products

Manufacturing case study

How Showplace Wood Products Got the Reports Its ERP Couldn't Produce

Showplace's Friedman Frontier ERP couldn't produce the reports they needed, so employees keyed data in and out of the system by hand. The manual work slowed operations enough to limit how many cabinets they could physically produce. Here's what changed after they built custom reporting over the ERP with m-Power:

20 hours a week

Of manual data entry eliminated by automating data delivery from the ERP to the cutting department.

Zero new hires

Every application was built by their existing staff, avoiding the cost of a full-time developer.

100% daily shipping

Tablet apps with real-time ERP data on the shop floor helped the team hit their daily shipping goal.

See What You Could Deliver

These examples are live applications. Click through and use them. Build any of them with m-Power, or have us build them for you.

Shop floor KPI dashboard built with m-Power
Live demo

Shop floor dashboards

Display live KPIs on monitors throughout the floor so every shift knows where it stands against the day's goals.

Production report built with m-Power
Live demo

Production reporting

Generate and distribute production reports on a schedule, or automatically when the underlying data changes.

Ad-hoc report with user-selected filters, subtotals, and output format
Live demo

Ad-hoc reporting

Users choose the filters, subtotals, and format, then run it against live data. One-off report requests stop landing on IT's desk.

Profitability by month report with color-coded margins by product
Live demo

Profitability reports

Margin by product and month, color-coded so the problems stand out. Drill from any number to the detail behind it.

Year over year sales analysis by region with side-by-side comparison chart
Live demo

Year-over-year sales

Compare any timeframe to the prior period or year, side by side in tables and charts.

What-if budgeting analysis with sliders built with m-Power
Live demo

Budgeting and forecasting

Model cost and volume changes with sliders and see the effect on margin before you commit, all on live data.

Frequently asked questions

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Does m-Power replace our ERP system?

No. m-Power builds over and around your ERP's database using an extend-and-surround approach. You get the reports, dashboards, and screens the ERP is missing, while the ERP code stays untouched. That means vendor upgrades aren't put at risk.

Then we build it for you. mrc's services team builds applications over your data, then hands them off with training so your team can maintain them. 96% of first-time services clients return for another project.

Yes. m-Power is a low-code development platform from mrc that builds web applications over your existing databases. A single report or dashboard can join data from multiple databases and systems, including your ERP.

m-Power works over the major databases manufacturers run, including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Db2. It builds over your existing tables, with no data migration required.

No. m-Power's template-driven build process is point-and-click, so analysts and IT generalists build most applications. Developers can extend anything with custom code when they want to.

m-Power uses a one-time perpetual license with no per-user fees. Build unlimited applications for unlimited users, so rolling a dashboard out to the whole shop floor doesn't change the price. See the pricing page for how licensing works.

Either. m-Power runs in your environment, on-premise or on the cloud infrastructure you choose, under your existing security model and authentication.

It depends on your data and your backlog, but customers consistently report large capacity gains. Autochair's systems developer put it this way: "I can now do five projects in the time that I would have done one project."

Last updated: July 2026

Get Started in 3 Steps

You'll see proof over your own data before you make any decision.

1

Get a demo

Show us the reports and dashboards you can't get today. We'll walk through how we'd build them over the systems you already run.

2

See it over your data

Next comes a proof of concept. You'll see m-Power running over your own ERP and plant data, with real screens and real numbers.

3

Roll it out your way

Build with m-Power, hand your list to our services team, or split the work. There are no per-user fees, so you can give the whole plant access on day one.

What you can count on
  • You see it working over your own data before you buy
  • Everything runs in your environment, under your security model
  • One-time license that doesn't change as you add users
  • Support staffed by consultants who build with m-Power every day
See it for yourself

See manufacturing analytics over your data

We'll look at your reporting and dashboard needs, show you how we'd solve them, and answer your team's questions. You'll talk to a real person who actually cares whether this works for you.