The open source manufacturing ERP
Carbon is a manufacturing system of record that combines ERP, MES, and QMS into a single, unified, API-first system that's perfect for complex manufacturing.
Modern manufacturers build their tech stack on Carbon
End-to-End
Designed for manufacturing
Unified quality, purchasing & production
Assembly and make-to-order workflows
Multi-location planning and inventory
Built on the best of open-source software
Govcloud-hosted Version Available
API-First
Built on a developer-friendly platform
Carbon extends the Supabase client libraries to provide a strongly-typed, strongly-permissioned, realtime API for extending your system of record.
1import type { SupabaseClient } from "@supabase/supabase-js";2import { createClient } from "@supabase/supabase-js";3import { CARBON_API_URL, CARBON_PUBLIC_KEY, CARBON_API_KEY } from "~/env";45const carbon = createClient(CARBON_API_URL, CARBON_PUBLIC_KEY, {6 global: {7 headers: {8 "carbon-key": CARBON_API_KEY9 }10 }11});12
Open Source
Modern, minimal, transparent
Video Library
Carbon Academy is a free, self-paced learning platform that teaches you how to use Carbon. It's a great way to get started with Carbon and learn how to use it to its full potential.
Documentation
Carbon's developer documentation guides you through getting Carbon running locally, and extending it to build your own own custom applications.
Source Code
Carbon's source code is available on GitHub and is free to use. You can maintain your own public fork or acquire a commercial license to make your code modifications private.
Features
Powerful tools to run your business
End-to-End Traceability
Achieve granular, end-to-end tracking of materials, components, and processes, ensuring compliance, simplifying audits, and enabling rapid root cause analysis without the complexity and cost of traditional high-end systems.
Integrated Agents
Our ever-expanding catalog of agents allow you to save time and money by automating repetitive tasks. For example, our purchasing agent can create purchase orders and get quotes from suppliers automatically.
Product Configurator
Automatically generate the Bill of Materials and Bill of Process for a given set of options/parameters with our powerful product configurator.
Simplified Scheduling
Keep your shop floor schedule up-to-date with our simple and powerful scheduling engine. Schedule by job due date, or by fine-tune work center and resource availability.
API-First Architecture
Carbon is built with an "API-First Architecture," which gives you unparalleled flexibility to seamlessly connect Carbon with your other business systems. This allows you to automate workflows across all applications.
Reviews
What our customers say:
As an engineering start-up pushing the boundaries in manufacturing assembly, we needed more than just another MRP/MES system. Carbon delivered - combining deep functionality with a refreshingly open, API-first design. It integrates seamlessly with our CAD tools, scales effortlessly, has fantastic UX and offers exceptional value.
Liam Sill
CTO, Minimal
Founder memo
Carbon Manufacturing Systems Corp.
After spending nearly a decade building end-to-end systems for manufacturing, I had a pretty good idea of what an "ideal" solution looked like from a technical perspective:
API-first, realtime subscriptions, simple scheduling, and 1,000 little details to make the juice of using an ERP worth the squeeze.
But even as we work with our customers to become the best off-the-shelf ERP/MES for many types of discrete manufacturing, we are faced with the reality that there is no "perfect" off-the-shelf solution, because each manufacturing business is unique.
We open-sourced Carbon not because it's a great business plan, but because that's the system I would have wanted when I was in your shoes.
I believe open-source has incredible potential because it's not just a product–it's a community of like-minded people working to build the future of manufacturing in the age of AI and robotics.
We're glad you're here for it.
