An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS
Details
- External ID
- 49824715
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS
- Website domain
- carbon.ms
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 54
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8644338118022329
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source erp and mes for manufacturing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No An end-to-end manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS encompasses deep operational logic (MRP scheduling, shop-floor execution, lot tracking, BOMs, and ISO quality compliance) that requires years of manufacturing systems domain engineering.
What it would actually take: A complete ERP/MES/QMS like Carbon is built on a transactional relational database (PostgreSQL) with event-sourcing or temporal tables to track inventory state, work-in-progress (WIP), bill-of-materials (BOM), and routing schedules across factory machinery. The hardest aspects are the MRP algorithm (net requirements explosion, lead-time offsets, capacity planning), traceability auditing for ISO/FDA compliance, and hardware shop-floor telemetry integrations (PLC/SCADA via OPC UA or MQTT). It requires seasoned industrial systems architects and regulatory domain specialists.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Bonx, Mattermost
Concerns raised: Unlisted pricing requiring sales call, Open source software requiring paid licenses, Difficulty getting self-hosted users to upgrade customized instances, Generic AI-generated website design
Competitors
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Attention rank: #146 of 1042 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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