Help Center · Rubber factories
How can we help you run your factory?
Step-by-step guides for rubber mats, sheets, gaskets and moulded parts, with screenshots from a real gym-mat factory set-up.
Getting started
How Trakto fits a moulding factory, shifts, store and team.
- How Trakto works in a rubber factoryThe daily loop from purchase to dispatch, and what Draft and Live mean.
- Set up shifts, holidays and your storeProduction dates and times fill themselves in once shifts are set.
- Team, roles and who sees costsGive the purchase team purchase rates, the sales team selling rates, and keep margins private.
Items & recipes
Mat variants, units, compound recipes, scrap and opening stock.
- Create a product with all its variantsOne parent item, attributes like thickness and pattern, a SKU for every variant.
- Units: weight in kg on every matMark the Weight attribute as kg, and when to use alternate units.
- Compound recipe and loading weightSet up Compounding → Pressing once; log only mats and let Trakto deduct every raw material.
- One compound, several recipes, each with its batch costPremium, standard and economy mixes for the same compound, and which one a batch used.
- Flash and scrap that lower your costRecord flash per shift and credit its value against every mat.
- Enter the stock you already haveRaw materials through one GRN; finished mats through Opening Stock.
Buying
Purchase entries with freight, stock runway and purchase orders.
Orders & production
Sales orders, work orders, machine planning and production logs.
- Customer PO to work order in one clickCreate the sales order, then the work order straight from it.
- When will this order be ready?Queue work orders on each press and get ready dates from real speed and shifts.
- Log production: mats in, materials outTwo ways to log finished mats, rejects and the shift's flash.
- Enter exactly what material was usedPick the formulation and type actual kg per material on Confirm materials.
Dispatch & stock
Weighbridge dispatch, reconciliation and stock value.
Costing & reports
Cost per variant, overheads, month close and profit.
- The real cost of every variantRecipe × latest landed rates + overheads − scrap credit, per SKU.
- Overheads, spares and closing the monthPut rent, power and wages into every mat, and lock each month with real bills.
- Profit by region, customer and variantDrill down sales margin and find every production report.
Still stuck?
Book a set-up call. We'll configure your compound, variants and machines with you.