In manufacturing companies, development, production and maintenance run side by side. Each area has its own routines and shared deadlines. IT provides the system where that comes together.
Redmine maps product development, change requests and maintenance as projects. We operate it, in our cloud in Germany or on your server.
What your team does with it
- Development projects and changes. Every change becomes an issue, with an owner, a date and a history. Who decided what and when stays on the issue.
- Machines, test equipment and contracts. Machines, certificates, licenses and supplier contracts live in the DB plugin. Custom fields, filterable, outside individual issues.
- Maintenance and inspection dates by rule. The Automation plugin creates recurring issues and reminds you before the date. Maintenance intervals, calibration, certificate renewal.
- Work instructions with approval. The Wiki Guide plugin adds an approval workflow and read confirmation to the wiki. That makes it provable who reviewed a version and who read it.
- Effort per project. The Reporting plugin evaluates spent time by project, department and period and converts it using stored hourly rates.
- Requests from the shop floor. With the ServiceDesk plugin, an email to IT becomes an issue, with the reply sent from the system.
What that means day to day
- Cloud in Germany or your own server. With InHouse operation, SSH access restricted to our IP is enough.
- Redmine and GitLab from one provider. One contact, one server location, connected through the DevOps plugin.
- No user limits. Whether 50 or 500 people work in it, the hosting costs the same.
- We handle the updates. Security patches every four hours, major versions only after a plugin check.
Prices are listed openly on the hosting page, GitLab has its own overview.