🔩 Industry · CNC Machining
Your CNC machines are running.
But which job is stuck in queue and holding up delivery?
From drawing release to dispatch — live visibility across every CNC operation. Track machine queues, setup times, inspection outcomes, and vendor operations without end-of-shift surprises.
CNC machining businesses — job and machine visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026
Your Production Flow
Every job. Every machine. Every operation 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 & Drawing
4 stages
Order Received
Customer order confirmed — part number, drawing revision, quantity, deadline.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, drawing revision locked, operations planned
Drawing Review
Drawing reviewed for feasibility, tolerances, and material specification.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: drawing ambiguity found only when machining starts — rework required
Material Planning
Raw material grade and size specified per job.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: material not available when job is ready to start
Job Card / Route Card
Operation sequence defined — turning, milling, drilling, grinding.
✓ Clicarity: Operation sequence fixed — no step can be skipped
02
Raw Material
3 stages
Material Procurement
Bar stock, casting, or forging procured or pulled from stores.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: wrong grade received — job held while correct material sourced
Incoming Inspection
Material dimensions and grade verified before machining.
✓ Clicarity: Incoming rejection logged — vendor pattern visible over time
Material Issue to Floor
Material issued to machinist with job card.
✓ Clicarity: Issue logged — job enters machining queue
03
Machining Operations
7 stages
CNC Turning
Diameter profiles, faces, and grooves machined on turning centre.
✓ Clicarity: Operation start/end logged — machine utilisation visible
CNC Milling / VMC
Flat features, pockets, and contours machined on VMC.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: VMC queue — 3-4 jobs waiting with no visibility
Drilling / Tapping
Holes and threads machined per drawing.
Grinding
Precision surfaces ground to tight tolerance.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: grinding wheel condition — tolerance drift causes rejects
Boring / Reaming
Precision bores and reamed holes machined.
Deburring
Burrs removed, edges broken per drawing requirement.
✓ Clicarity: Deburring completion logged — inspection cannot start without it
In-Process Inspection
Critical dimensions checked at key operations.
✓ Clicarity: Inspection result logged — job held if out of tolerance
04
Vendor Operations
2 stages
Heat Treatment / Surface Treatment
Job sent to vendor for hardening, plating, or coating.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: vendor returns late — delivery to customer impacted
Return & Inspection
Vendor-processed job inspected before final operations or dispatch.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor TAT tracked — data to hold them accountable
05
Final QC & Dispatch
3 stages
Final Inspection
All dimensions verified against drawing — CMM or manual.
✓ Clicarity: Final rejection rate tracked by job and operation
Packing
Parts packed and protected for dispatch.
✓ Clicarity: Packed quantity confirmed against order
Dispatch
Parts dispatched with inspection certificate and delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: Full job history from drawing to dispatch preserved
Where CNC Businesses Lose Time & Margin
Real bottlenecks. Real costs. Real fixes.
These are the patterns Clicarity helps businesses identify and fix within the first few weeks.
VMC Queue
VMC bottleneck adding 3 days to every job — planners had no data
A CNC unit tracked job queue depth at each machine. VMC consistently had 6-8 jobs waiting while turning had spare capacity. Average VMC wait: 3.1 days. Work rebalanced with data. A second VMC shift added for peak periods. Average lead time reduced 38%.
Lead time reduced 38% — VMC bottleneck identified and resolved
Setup Time
Setup taking 40% of machine time — nobody had measured it
Tracking operation start and end times revealed setup and changeover was consuming 38% of available machine time on complex parts. Standardised setup procedures introduced. Setup time reduced to 18%. Output per shift increased 24%.
Machine output increased 24% — setup time measured and reduced
Drawing Revision
Job machined to superseded drawing — 40 parts scrapped
A wrong drawing revision was used because the machinist had a cached file. 40 components scrapped — ₹2.8L in material and machining lost. With Clicarity, drawing revision is locked at job creation. Revision-related scrap: eliminated.
₹2.8L scrap loss prevented — drawing revision control enforced
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""We had 3 machines consistently running behind while 2 others had capacity — but nobody could see it. Now I check one screen and rebalance work before the shift even starts. On-time delivery went from 64% to 91%.""
What improves in CNC machining businesses using Clicarity
↑ 42%
On-time delivery improvement
↓ 55%
Machine idle time between jobs
↓ 60%
Rework from missed operations
5 days
To go live — full setup included
One licence. Your entire operation.
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 cnc machining 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.
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