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The floor reports on a feature phone.
You read the whole plant on one screen.

Most workshop software assumes everyone has a smartphone, a data bundle and the patience to learn an app. Mzalendo assumes the opposite. Workers dial a USSD code from whatever handset they already own. What they enter becomes your inventory, your schedule and one honest number for the health of the plant.

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Needs
No data
Runs on
Any handset
Session
Under 30s

Manufacturing Pulse

live

72%

Health

Production 78
Inventory 54
Orders 81
Maintenance 46
Suppliers 88

Why Welding bay C is down and two runs depend on it. Aluminium sheet is at zero.

On the floor

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MZALENDO - Your Plant
Habari Peter
1. My tasks
2. Report production
3. Report stock
4. Machine fault
5. Safety incident
6. Clock in or out
7. Stock check

No app to install. No bundle to buy. Works on the cheapest phone in the workshop.

The gap

A workshop owner already knows what is wrong. Finding out costs them the afternoon.

The information exists. It is in a supervisor's head, a notebook by the grinder, a pile of delivery notes and three WhatsApp groups. Pulling it together means walking the floor and asking. By the time you know the steel ran out, the run is already late.

Stock is a guess

You find out a material is finished when someone needs it. The reorder happens after the line has already stopped.

Progress is a rumour

Nobody can say what a run is at without walking over and counting. Late orders are discovered at the deadline.

Breakdowns travel slowly

A machine goes down at nine and the office hears at two, once the damage to the schedule is already done.

How it works

Two surfaces, one system.

The floor gets a menu that works on any phone. The office gets a dashboard. Neither has to wait for the other, and nothing is entered twice.

Workers dial in

A welder finishes twelve gates, dials the code and enters the number. A grinder starts smoking, he reports it in four keypresses. The plant knows immediately.

  • Report production against a run
  • Issue, receive or count stock
  • Flag a machine fault by severity
  • Report an injury or a near miss
  • Clock in and out

The office reads one number

Five subsystems, weighted by what stops a plant fastest, resolved into a single score — and, more usefully, a ledger of exactly what moved it and what to do about it.

  • Inventory with automatic reorder alerts
  • Orders planned into dated runs
  • Material shortages worked out from the BOM
  • Machines, services and downtime
  • Supplier reliability earned from deliveries

The signature

A number is useless without the reason behind it.

Plenty of software will show you a dashboard. Mzalendo tells you which of the five subsystems moved, by how much, and the one action that would move it back. Every finding links straight to the record you need to change.

How the score is built

Signal ledger

3 findings

  1. Welding bay C is down

    critical

    Two runs are assigned to it and neither can proceed. Reported from the floor 40 minutes ago.

    DoAssign a technician

  2. Aluminium sheet is at zero

    high

    Three products use it. The next run needs 8 sheets and there are none.

    DoDraft a purchase order

  3. RUN-0004 has slipped

    medium

    Due yesterday at 40%. Nothing has been reported against it in two days.

    DoReassign or move the date

Plants running

0

On this installation

Workers registered

0

Reachable by handset

Handset sessions

0

Reports from the floor

Messages handled

0

Alerts, updates, replies

Get started

Set up a plant in ten minutes.

You get a starter material list, sensible production stages and the USSD menu already wired up. Add your workers' numbers and the floor can start reporting the same afternoon.

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