The Platform

One place to run every program,
from order to production.

Program management, signals and industrial connectors in one coordination platform. Your ERP, PLM and MES stay in place.

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Inside the platform

Built for the people who carry the program.

Every program, structured.
Program management

Every program, structured.

Work packages, owners, dates and gates in one view. Upload the Excel you run today; Magic Import turns it into a live program.

  • Planning & stage gates
  • Work packages & actions
  • Timesheets
  • Magic import — Excel to live program
Every program, one view.
Portfolio

Every program, one view.

All your active NPI programs in one place: current stage, owner, blockers, and risk. See the whole portfolio at a glance, then drill into any program.

Gated process with native checklists.
Gates

Gated process with native checklists.

First article, PPAP, design reviews, source inspection. The gates your segment runs on, configurable per program. Sign-offs and traceability built in.

5 agents reading signals.
Signals

5 agents reading signals.

Every proposed change lands as a card in the cockpit, with the impact preview attached: work packages affected, owners to ping, gates that move, customer risk flagged. One click to confirm, correct, or defer.

Plugged into your industrial stack.
Connectors

Plugged into your industrial stack.

MES, ERP, PLM, email, shared drives. Live data flowing in. Your systems of record stay where they are; the program gets the visibility.

Audit trail and project notebook.
Notebook

Audit trail and project notebook.

Every decision, every signal, every change. Chronological, provenance-stamped, exportable. The trail an auditor wants. The story a customer asks for.

The reports view, pre-filled.
Reports

The reports view, pre-filled.

Weekly status drafts, monthly portfolio reviews, customer update emails, assembled from live program data and waiting for you. Open, scan, edit, send.

Signals

Five agents reading signals,
a human deciding.

They read emails, connectors and platform activity, then propose. Nothing changes until someone confirms.

Cleaner

Walks the program graph. Inconsistencies flagged the moment they appear, with the fix proposed.

Ingest

Turns emails, PDFs, supplier replies and ERP / PLM deltas into structured proposed changes, provenance attached.

Planner

Computes the cascade. Downstream work packages, gates and dates mapped before you commit.

Advisor

Pattern-matches the portfolio. Surfaces the program that looks like a slip about to happen.

Drafter

Writes in your voice. Status reports, customer updates, supplier chasers, ready to edit and send.

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How it works

From scattered files to coordinated programs in one day.

Most manufacturing ERPs take 12 to 24 months to deploy. PLM rollouts run 6 to 18 months. BlackOrbit runs your first program the same day you upload it.

01
Hour 1 · magic import

Upload the mess. BlackOrbit structures it.

Your PM drops in whatever the program lives on today — Excel trackers, action lists, SOWs, DFM responses, PDFs, meeting notes. BlackOrbit parses it all into a structured program: work packages, owners, dependencies, dates, gate reviews. No manual re-entry. No rigid template.

02
Same-day afternoon · team goes live

Invite contributors. They see what matters.

Engineering, operations, supply chain, quality — each one lands on their own actions, deadlines, and gate reviews, with the Advisor surfacing risks and what needs attention. One workspace, one source of truth, no "onboarding week" before anyone can do real work.

03
Week 2+, at your pace · signals online

Plug in the data sources. The loop closes.

Connect inboxes, shared folders, and integrations (ERP, PLM, MES) at your pace. The engine starts turning supplier emails, PDF replies, and ERP deltas into proposed changes in the Cockpit — with provenance on every one. Your program state stays current without anyone copy-pasting.

How BlackOrbit compares

The gap every other category leaves open.

The industrial PM software landscape is split: heavy incumbents, generic work tools, or narrow shop-floor apps. BlackOrbit is the layer none of them cover.

Capability Manufacturing ERP Generic PM PLM MES BlackOrbit
Full project management actions, owners, threads, cross-functional~✓~×✓
Project & resource planning Gantt, WBS, dependencies, critical path~✓~×✓
Stage-gate sign-offs AS9102, PPAP, DFM, custom + full traceability~×~~✓
Agentic engine — project administration removes ~80% of project admin××××✓
Agentic engine — inbound & outbound comms emails & PDFs in; customer / supplier drafts out××××✓
Portfolio-level risk & NPI advisor cycle-time, bottlenecks, predictions~×××✓
Manufacturing ontology, native + customizable part hierarchies, work packages, AS9102 / PPAP / DFM, FAI, NCR, built in and tunable to your shop✓~~~✓
1-day go-live with magic import Excel, PDF, SOW → structured program×~××✓
Industrial deployment ITAR-ready, integrates with ERP / PLM / MES✓~~✓✓
Where It Fits

We coordinate the programs.
Everything else is integration surface.

Your ERP, PLM, and MES weren't built to coordinate the program. BlackOrbit was. Your existing stack stays in place; we add the layer it was never designed to be.

What it is

  • Program intelligence and management
  • NPI coordination from order to production
  • Cross-functional coordination platform
  • Signal capture across email, ERP, PLM, MES
  • AI-assisted decisions with human confirm

What it is not

  • Not an ERP. Not a system of record.
  • Not a PLM. Not product documentation.
  • Not an MES. Not shop floor execution.
  • Not RFQ. Not ordering. Not transactions.
  • Not a generic PM tool.
BlackOrbit runs the program from order to production.

See it on your programs.

You walk away with a coordination teardown either way.

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