Nodal Shopfloor is built by Coffey & Co., a consultancy that's spent years inside mid-market manufacturing operations. We saw the gap between spreadsheets and enterprise MES systems, and built the application we wished existed.
Most enterprise software is designed around a straight line. An order comes in, gets processed, and goes out. Manufacturing doesn't work that way. A production floor is a network.
In any network, a node is a connection point where information is received, processed, and passed forward. On a factory floor, every station, team, supplier, and workflow is exactly that. A node where something happens, something changes, and the result flows into what comes next.
Raw materials arrive from multiple suppliers, move through treatment, fabrication, and inspection, get bundled, staged, and shipped. Suppliers shift, schedules change, and a bottleneck at one station ripples through everything downstream.
That complexity isn't a problem to eliminate. It's the reality of the business, and software that pretends otherwise creates more friction than it removes.
We named the company Nodal because modern manufacturing software has to reflect how production environments actually work. Coffey & Co. built Nodal to give mid-market manufacturers visibility and control across every node in their operation, starting on the shopfloor and expanding across the entire business.
How a growing building materials manufacturer replaced pen-and-paper pack tracking with a scan-driven workflow in seven days.
Arbor Wood, a growing building materials manufacturer, was caught between two bad options. To track packs, scrap, and work at each station, they relied on pen and paper. That was error-prone and time-consuming when information needed to be manually entered into their ERP. Their existing ERP vendor's solution for shopfloor visibility was complex, difficult to modify, and expensive.
Nodal Shopfloor provided a single, unified application. We configured it to Arbor Wood's specific stations, inventory, and workflows in a focused 7-day implementation window.
Arbor Wood moved from reactive management to data-driven production control. The system that took seven days to stand up now powers daily decisions across the floor and the back office.
A few principles we hold to.
Nodal is one product with every feature included. No module gating. No "Pro" upsell. What you see is what you get.
The tablet app is designed for workers in gloves, in noisy environments, under overhead lighting. If it doesn't work on the floor, it doesn't ship.
Onboarding takes seven days. Adding a facility takes days. We don't run six-month migrations. Manufacturers can't afford them.
Book 30 minutes with the people who built Nodal. Tell us about your operation. We'll show you how it'd run.