Evidence Desk 03
ERP, MES, CMMS, PLM, CPQ, QMS, scheduling, maintenance, and the buying questions that matter before the demo.
Direct answer – What changed with Eyelit 10.1 Agent EyeQ? Eyelit 10.1 moves Agent EyeQ beyond answering planning questions toward logged execution across MES, APS and SIOP operations. Caddy mode keeps the user in charge; Employee mode can own bounded work and escalate exceptions. Eyelit describes approval gates, read/write separation and replayable actions, but has … Read more about Eyelit 10.1 Agent EyeQ Can Change the Schedule
Direct answer – What does the John Deere FTC settlement require? The settlement requires Deere for 10 years to offer farmers and independent repair providers repair resources equivalent to those supplied to authorized dealers, on fair and reasonable terms. That includes fault-code tools, component reprogramming, emissions restart functions and technical guidance. Access is staged, with … Read more about John Deere FTC Deal Opens Repair Software in Stages
The fastest way to lose a job you could have won is to quote it slowly, or to quote it wrong. For most small and mid-market manufacturers, the quote is still built in a spreadsheet that a senior estimator guards like a family recipe, and it eats hours the shop does not have. Quoting software … Read more about Quoting Software for Manufacturing: 10 Tools Ranked (2026)
The question “what is MES in manufacturing?” rarely gets a clean answer on the shop floor, because MES overlaps with ERP, MRP, PLM, QMS, and CMMS, and every vendor wants its own layer to look like the whole system. Six acronyms, a stack of overlapping sales decks, and a five- or six-figure decision riding on … Read more about What Is MES? MES vs ERP vs PLM, Explained
Most manufacturers do not buy a CMMS because they went shopping for one. They buy it the week after a critical line goes down for the third time, the spare part turns out to be nobody’s job to reorder, and the only maintenance record is a whiteboard someone already wiped. Unplanned downtime is the tax … Read more about What Is a CMMS? Software Guide for Manufacturers
Direct answer – What is new in Mastercam 2027? Mastercam 2027 is a CAD/CAM release focused on smoother toolpath motion, deburring automation, multiaxis machining, Mill-Turn setup, machine configuration, tooling definitions, simulation accuracy, and the EverPath Technology beta for CONNECT customers. For CNC shops, the useful question is not whether the feature list is longer. It … Read more about Mastercam 2027: What CNC Shops Should Test
Direct answer – What does CAI Software’s PlanetTogether acquisition mean for manufacturers? CAI Software’s acquisition of PlanetTogether adds advanced planning and scheduling to CAI’s manufacturing software stack. For manufacturers, the practical change is that CAI can now connect ERP, MES, shop-floor execution, and finite-capacity scheduling under one portfolio, while PlanetTogether continues as a standalone CAI … Read more about CAI Buys PlanetTogether: APS Layer to Watch
The fastest way to overspend on quality management software for manufacturing is to shop by brand instead of by standard. A four-person machine shop chasing its first ISO 9001 certificate and a Class III medical-device maker living under FDA inspection both type “best QMS software” into Google, see the same ten logos, and assume the … Read more about Quality Management Software for Manufacturing (2026)
Most “CPQ software for manufacturing” is generic sales CPQ with the word manufacturing bolted onto the landing page. It can build a quote; it cannot build your product. For a make-to-order shop that gap is the whole job, because the quote has to reflect what the line can actually produce, at a price that still … Read more about CPQ Software for Manufacturing: 10 Tools Scored (2026)
Search “manufacturing inventory software” and you get two answers that don’t agree. Half the results are retail stock apps that count finished goods. The other half are full ERP suites that happen to include an inventory module. Neither is wrong, but neither tells a manufacturer where their software should actually live. The gap matters because … Read more about Manufacturing Inventory Software: 9 Systems Compared (2026)
