🚗 Industry · Automotive Components
Your machining floor is running.
But where is each batch in the supply chain right now?
From drawing release to dispatch — live visibility across every automotive component operation. Track machining queues, vendor heat treatment, surface finish, and assembly with full lot traceability.
Automotive component businesses — full lot traceability live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026
Your Production Flow
Every batch. Every operation. Every vendor tracked.
This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.
01
Order & Planning
4 stages
Purchase Order Received
OEM or Tier-1 purchase order received — part number, drawing revision, quantity, delivery date.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, drawing revision locked, batch initiated
Drawing & Revision Control
Customer drawing reviewed and correct revision confirmed before production.
✓ Clicarity: Drawing revision logged — production only proceeds on approved revision
Raw Material Planning
Material grade, size, and quantity specified per batch.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: wrong grade or heat number — discovered at incoming inspection
Raw Material Procurement
Forging, casting, bar stock, or sheet procured with material test certificate.
✓ Clicarity: Heat number and MTC recorded at receipt — traceability chain begins
02
Incoming & Pre-Production
3 stages
Incoming Inspection
Raw material dimensions and material properties verified against MTC.
✓ Clicarity: Incoming rejection logged — vendor record maintained over time
Job Planning & Routing
Machining sequence and operations planned — turning, milling, drilling, grinding.
Tooling & Fixture Setup
Required tooling, fixtures, and CNC programs prepared for the job.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: tooling not available — machine setup delayed
03
Machining Operations
6 stages
Turning / CNC Turning
Diameter features, faces, and profiles machined on CNC turning centre.
✓ Clicarity: Batch quantity tracked through each operation — rejections logged
Milling / VMC
Flat features, pockets, and profiles machined on VMC.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: VMC queue — batches waiting 2-3 days without visibility
Drilling / Tapping / Boring
Holes, threads, and bores machined to drawing specification.
Grinding
Precision ground surfaces machined to tight tolerances.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: grinding wheel dressing frequency — tolerance drift causes rejections
Deburring / Cleaning
Burrs removed and components cleaned before inspection and heat treatment.
✓ Clicarity: Quantity confirmed before sending to vendor operations
In-Process Inspection
Critical dimensions checked at key operations against drawing tolerances.
✓ Clicarity: Inspection result logged — batch cannot proceed until cleared
04
Vendor Operations
3 stages
Heat Treatment
Batch sent to heat treatment vendor — hardening, case carburising, or annealing.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor updates status — you see receipt, process start, and return live
Surface Treatment
Zinc plating, phosphating, black oxide, or painting at vendor.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: vendor queue — batch returns late, delivery to OEM affected
Return Inspection
Batch inspected on return — hardness, thickness, and surface quality verified.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor TAT tracked over time — accountable with data
05
Final QC & Dispatch
4 stages
Final Inspection
All critical dimensions and surface finish verified on 100% or sampling basis.
✓ Clicarity: Final rejection rate tracked by operation — root cause analysis enabled
Assembly / Sub-Assembly
Components assembled with mating parts, seals, or bearings where required.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: one mating component rejected — entire assembly batch held
Marking & Traceability
Batch number, part number, and revision marked on components.
✓ Clicarity: Full lot traceability from heat number to dispatch record
Dispatch
Batch dispatched with PDI report, dimensional report, and delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: OEM delivery window tracked — alert if dispatch is at risk
Where Automotive Component Manufacturers Lose Time & Quality
Real bottlenecks. Real costs. Real fixes.
These are the patterns Clicarity helps automotive components businesses identify and fix within the first few weeks.
Heat Treatment Delay
Heat treatment vendor adding 12 days to every batch — OEM deliveries consistently late
An automotive component manufacturer tracked vendor turnaround time for all external operations. Heat treatment was taking an average of 12.4 days against a 3-day agreed turnaround. The vendor had no real-time update mechanism and the manufacturer had no visibility. With Clicarity vendor portal, the vendor updates status daily. Average TAT: 3.8 days. OEM on-time delivery improved from 61% to 94%.
OEM on-time delivery improved from 61% to 94%
Wrong Revision
Production ran 200 components on superseded drawing — entire batch scrapped
A component shop had two revisions of a drawing in circulation. The CNC programmer used an older saved file. 200 components were machined to the wrong revision — a critical bore dimension was 0.15mm different from the current spec. Entire batch scrapped. ₹3.8L material and machining loss. With Clicarity, drawing revision is locked at job creation and the CNC floor only sees the approved current revision.
₹3.8L loss prevented — wrong revision incidents eliminated
VMC Queue
VMC bottleneck invisible until customer called asking for delivery
Tracking operation-wise WIP revealed that the VMC consistently had 8-12 batches queued while other machines had capacity. The production planner was allocating work evenly without data on actual queue depth. With live WIP visibility, VMC work was pre-allocated differently and a second shift was added for peak periods. Average machining lead time reduced 38%.
Machining lead time reduced 38% — VMC queue made visible
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""In automotive, you cannot have surprises at delivery. We used to discover heat treatment delays only when the next operation was ready and waiting. Now the vendor updates their status and I can see it before it becomes a line-stop at the customer.""
What improves in automotive component businesses using Clicarity
Zero
Wrong revision dispatched to OEM
↓ 55%
Vendor operation delays
↑ 40%
On-time delivery to OEM
5 days
To go live — full setup included
One licence. Your entire component manufacturing floor.
No per-user fees. Full setup by the Clicarity team. Live in 5 days.
Single Licence
₹30,000
/ year
1 user · Annual licence
₹82 a day. Less than a daily meal for one person — for your entire team's visibility, all year.
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Multi Licence
₹55,000
/ year
Unlimited users · Annual licence
₹150 a day. Less than the cost of one missed delivery — for full visibility across your entire team.
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Annual billing · No hidden fees · Full setup included · Go live in 5 days
Questions from automotive components businesses
How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and bottleneck alerts at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.
See every batch. Every operation. Before the OEM calls.
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