ERP for heavy engineering and capital equipment.
Large, long-cycle, engineered-to-order builds — capital equipment, structures and assemblies — run for months across engineering, procurement, fabrication and commissioning. ARKcelerate keeps the whole programme on one project.
The problem
Long-cycle builds outrun spreadsheets.
Heavy engineering jobs run for months: engineering changes mid-build, procurement of long-lead items, multi-stage fabrication, inspection and field commissioning. The plan drifts, change is constant, and the truth lives across dozens of files.
Generic ERPs handle the sales order and the invoice but not the engineered project in between — so cost and schedule are reconstructed after the fact, when it is too late to act on them.
How it works
One project across the whole programme.
Change-safe versioned BOMs
Engineering changes version the BOM without rewriting the manufacturing orders already released — essential on a build that runs for months.
Approvals, procurement, fabrication, QC
Customer approvals, purchase, inventory, manufacturing and quality all read and write against the same project.
Cost and schedule, live
Project-tagged finance means P&L, margin and cash per programme come from the ledger — not a month-end reconstruction.
Tasks and milestones
A task board with milestones and dependencies tracks the long-cycle plan so slippage is visible while you can still act on it.
FAQ
Common questions.
What ERP fits heavy engineering and capital equipment?
Long-cycle, engineered-to-order builds need a project-based ERP that keeps engineering, procurement, fabrication, QC and finance on one project, with change-safe BOMs and live project costing. ARKcelerate is built for exactly that.
How does it cope with mid-build engineering changes?
Engineering changes version the bill of materials. Manufacturing orders already released keep their version, so a change never silently rewrites work in progress.
Can it track cost and schedule on a long project?
Yes. Everything is tagged to the project, and a task board with milestones tracks the schedule, so cost and slippage are visible during the build rather than after it.
Keep the whole programme on one project.
Start a trial, or talk to the engineers who built ARKcelerate to run their own heavy-engineering programmes.