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Atisolve builds custom software, mobile applications and web platforms for businesses in Coimbatore. We work remotely on Indian business hours, so you deal with the developers building your system rather than with a coordinator passing messages along.
This page covers what we build, how a remote engagement runs in practice, and what to establish about any development partner before committing budget. Contact details are at the bottom.
The Job Shop Problem
Coimbatore's engineering cluster — pumps, motors, textile machinery, foundries, castings and the hundreds of smaller units supplying them — mostly does not run on long production lines making the same thing. It runs on job work: a customer order, a drawing, a batch of parts, a delivery date, and then a different order that shares almost nothing with the last one.
That breaks most manufacturing software, which is built around repeat production. Systems assume a stable bill of materials, a standard routing and a known cycle time. In a job shop, every order has its own version of all three, half of them are variations on something you made two years ago, and the estimate was quoted from experience rather than calculated.
The consequence is that most job shops genuinely do not know which orders make money. Costs are tracked at the level of the whole month, jobs are quoted on feel, and a persistently unprofitable customer can be subsidised for years without anyone seeing it. That is the highest-value thing software can fix here, and it is more useful than production scheduling for most firms this size.
Doing it means capturing actual time and material against each job rather than against the month — which requires the shop floor to record things it currently does not. That is a design problem more than a technical one, and it is where these projects succeed or fail.
What We Build
Job Costing and Quotation
Actual time, material and outside processing captured against each job, compared with what was quoted — so you can see which work and which customers are genuinely profitable.
Production Tracking
Job cards, operation-wise progress, rework and dispatch, designed for entry on a shop floor by someone wearing gloves rather than at an office desk.
Outside Processing
Material sent for heat treatment, plating, machining or finishing — what went out, to whom, when, what came back and what is still owed.
Customer and Supplier Portals
Platforms where customers check order status and suppliers confirm schedules, replacing the telephone traffic that currently occupies your staff.
System Integration
Connecting Tally or your ERP to operations, e-way bills, GST filing and dispatch so a figure is entered once and agrees everywhere.
Mobile Applications
Android and iOS apps with their backend, built as one system — service engineers, dispatch and dealer ordering, with sensible offline behaviour.
We also offer SEO, generative engine optimisation, digital marketing, UI/UX design and continuing maintenance.
How a Remote Engagement Actually Works
For engineering clients there is one condition worth stating plainly: we will want to walk the shop floor. A description of how jobs move through the works almost always differs from what actually happens, and that difference is generally where the useful work is. We travel for that at the start of the engagement.
Discovery and Shop Visit
Conversations plus a walkthrough of the works — the job card as it is actually filled in, the point where information is lost between shifts, the register someone keeps privately because the official system does not fit. Unpaid.
Scope and Estimate
A written breakdown of what gets built, sequenced and priced, with assumptions and exclusions listed rather than left to be discovered later.
Build in Increments
Working software every two weeks, starting with the most painful area. Real use reshapes requirements far more effectively than a specification review.
Pilot on One Section
For shop-floor systems we pilot on a single section or cell before rolling out. It contains the disruption and surfaces the practical problems — the terminal in the wrong place, the field nobody can complete with oily hands — while they are still cheap to fix.
Roll Out and Train
Staged rollout with training for operators and supervisors, in Tamil where that is the working language, plus close monitoring. Shift handover is where these systems most often break, so we watch it specifically.
Support
A maintenance retainer or a documented handover to your own team, without the handover being priced to discourage it.
Communication and Working Hours
A shared WhatsApp, Slack or Teams channel with the developers on it rather than a ticket queue, and written weekly summaries whether the news is good or not. Same time zone, same working day. Where you run multiple shifts we agree in advance who to contact when something breaks outside office hours, rather than improvising it the first time.
Industries We Work With in Coimbatore
Pumps and Motors
Order-driven manufacturers tracking job costing, testing records, dispatch and warranty across a wide product range.
Textile Machinery
Assembly, spares and service operations where the installed base matters as much as new production.
Foundries and Castings
Heat and batch records, rejection analysis, and outside processing sent for machining or finishing.
Auto Components
Suppliers needing traceability, quality records and schedule visibility to satisfy what their customers require as a condition of supply.
Textiles and Apparel
Mills and garment units tracking production batches, job work sent outside, quality and dispatch against buyer schedules.
Education and Healthcare
Institutions and hospitals handling admissions, attendance, patient records, billing and reporting across systems that do not interoperate.
Software an SME Can Actually Run
Most engineering firms here employ tens rather than thousands of people and have no IT department. That should change what gets built, and frequently does not — enterprise systems get sold downmarket and then fail, not because the software is bad but because it assumes a support structure that does not exist.
A system for a business this size should do fewer things and need almost no administration. It should be operable by whoever is at the desk that day, not only by a trained user. And it must fail gracefully: if something breaks at 7pm, work has to continue on paper and reconcile the next morning, because a firm this size cannot stop while waiting for support. Building deliberately less is harder than building more, and it is what separates a system still in daily use after two years from one quietly abandoned in six months.
What to Check Before Hiring Any Development Partner
- Will they visit the shop? A team that has never seen your works will design for an office.
- Who owns the code? You, in the contract, with no conditions tied to continued payment.
- Whose account is it hosted in? Yours, under your billing, or changing supplier means rebuilding.
- How much administration does it need? If it assumes a full-time person to maintain it and you do not have one, it will fail regardless of quality.
- What is the fallback when it breaks mid-shift? Ask before you need it, not during the first incident.
- What does support cost afterwards? Establish the figure before you depend on the system.
When We Are Not the Right Choice
We do not do industrial control — PLC programming, SCADA or anything that actuates machinery. That is a separate discipline with its own safety obligations and you should engage a specialist for it. We work at the layer above: capturing, costing and reporting on what the works produces. We are also not the right answer if you need daily physical presence in the plant, or a large team mobilised at short notice, and if a configured off-the-shelf product would meet the requirement at a fraction of the cost we will tell you so rather than build around it.
Pricing and Engagement Models
- Fixed scope, fixed price. For settled requirements — a defined deliverable at an agreed price, changes quoted separately.
- Retained team. Agreed days per month against a backlog you prioritise, for continuous work.
- Phased. Fixed-price discovery and first phase, then a real decision point. Most manufacturing engagements start this way, because the shop visit usually changes the scope.
We quote per project rather than publishing a rate card, because two jobs of similar size can differ enormously once shop-floor data capture and integration are accounted for. Estimates state their assumptions and exclusions so you can compare them fairly against anything else on your desk.
Getting Started
Start with a conversation. Call +91 91082 92463 or email atisolve@gmail.com. You can also see the full range of services, read how we work, or browse our writing on building software.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have an office in Coimbatore?
No. We are remote-first and serve clients across India. We work Indian business hours and we do travel — for engineering projects a shop visit is part of the engagement rather than optional, so expect us there at the start and again at rollout. If you need a partner with a permanent local office, we are not it.
We quote jobs from experience. Can software really improve on that?
It is not trying to replace the estimate — it is trying to tell you afterwards whether the estimate was right. Most job shops know their overall margin and not their margin per job, which means a customer who has been quietly unprofitable for three years looks the same as one who is not. Capturing actual time and material against each job turns that from an opinion into a number.
Our operators are not comfortable with computers. Will they use it?
This decides whether the project succeeds and it is a design problem rather than a training one. Systems fail on a shop floor when recording something correctly takes longer than not recording it. We design for oily hands, shared terminals and interrupted work, support Tamil where that is the working language, and watch real operators use it during the pilot rather than assuming it works because it works for us.
Can you capture data directly from our machines?
Sometimes, and it depends entirely on the equipment. Machines that already expose data over a network or write to a file are workable. Older equipment with no digital output needs additional instrumentation, which is a separate project with its own specialist supplier. We will tell you honestly which category yours fall into rather than promising integration and discovering the constraint later.
How much does custom software development cost in Coimbatore?
There is no useful single figure, and anyone quoting one before seeing your works is guessing. Manufacturing projects vary particularly with how much integration and shop-floor data capture is involved. Our estimates itemise assumptions so you can see what is driving the number.
Who owns the code?
You do, in full, written into the contract — source, deployment configuration and documentation. Wherever possible we deploy into your own cloud account so the infrastructure is yours too.
We already use Tally. Do we have to replace it?
No, and we would advise against it. Tally normally stays as the accounting system of record while the new system handles operations, with data moving between them so figures are entered once.
What happens if the system goes down during a shift?
We agree this before launch rather than during the first incident: response time, who is contactable outside office hours, and what the paper fallback is so production does not stop for a software fault. Any shop-floor system needs a documented way to keep working temporarily and reconcile afterwards. A partner who has not considered that has not built for a works.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes, routinely and usually before the first detailed conversation. Where your customers impose confidentiality terms that flow down to suppliers, tell us early so we can confirm we are able to meet them.
How do we start?
Call +91 91082 92463 or email atisolve@gmail.com describing the problem. We will suggest a discovery conversation and a shop visit, both free and without obligation. If we are not the right partner, we will say so.
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