We start from the work
Every tool began as a job someone was already doing by hand, in a spreadsheet, or twice over. The software follows the work that existed, so nobody has to reorganize around it.
Hello from Alderworks
Careful software for people who do careful work.
We are a small, independent software company. We build a handful of tools for quality, maintenance and production teams: the people who have to be able to show that the work was done right. Each tool keeps the record your work needs, and hands it back to you in full.
- Who we build for
- Quality, maintenance and production teams
- How you get it
- Hosted for your team, or one file you download and run offline
- Where your data lives
- With you: exportable in full, or never off your machine
How we work
Three habits we bring to everything we build.
Your record stays yours
Data goes in through imports and comes out through exports, reports and files you keep. Nothing is held back to keep a subscription alive, and a tool bought once keeps working on your machine.
We finish things
A narrow tool that handles its awkward cases beats a broad one that only handles the demo. We would rather do one job properly than five approximately.
What we make
A few tools, each for one job done properly.
One is a hosted workspace your whole team signs in to. The others are single files you buy once and run on your own computer, offline, with nothing to install.
Quality and manufacturingComing soon
Alderworks Equipment Management Software
Calibration, maintenance, and asset traceability in one controlled workspace, built for teams who have to prove their equipment was fit for use.
Explore Alderworks Equipment Management SoftwareWhat it does for your team
- Know what is due before an auditor asks: calibration and maintenance schedules, with email reminders.
- Certificates that hold up: reviewed, numbered, and checkable by anyone you send them to.
- A full audit trail behind every record, and your data exportable whenever you want it.
Calibration and maintenanceComing soon
EquipLog
- See what is overdue and due in the next 30 days the moment it opens.
- Record who calibrated it, the result and the certificate; a Pass moves the due date on, a Fail takes it out of service.
- The register and every record in one Excel workbook in the shop's shared folder, with no server.
Quality and manufacturingComing soon
SpecRun
- Catch an out-of-spec reading the moment it is typed, not at the end of the run.
- Hand over an Excel workbook with a pass or fail on every row, plus Cp and Cpk.
- Set up your own tests, columns and terms once, then just enter readings.
Production and operationsComing soon
ShiftHandover
- Fill in one form at the end of the shift and get the email, the Word document and the printout.
- The next lead opens your handover and carries on from it.
- Open items follow every shift until someone closes them.
Quality and manufacturingComing soon
RetainLog
- Keep the Excel workbook you already have. Your formatting and formulas survive every save.
- Enter retains from a form built on your own columns.
- See, sign off and print what is due for disposal.
Quality and manufacturingComing soon
PullPlan
- Sample size and accept and reject numbers, straight from the AQL tables.
- A pull list that says exactly which containers to open.
- An inspection record with lines to sign, from one file that runs on the line.
Teams and schedulingComing soon
CoverPlan
- Staff pick days on a calendar and submit a request into the team's shared folder.
- An admin sees who else is off and the notice given, then approves or denies with a note.
- Every request and the team's settings are ordinary Excel workbooks.
Quality and manufacturingComing soon
Alderworks Quality Suite
- All six apps in one file, each working exactly as it does on its own.
- One team folder, one admin, and the team's lists entered once for every app.
- An order starts a run, a run logs a retain, and the handover shows who is off and what equipment is due.
Whichever you choose
Every product comes with the same three things.
- Support from the people who built itA question reaches someone who worked on the thing you are asking about, not a queue.
- Every update includedBuy version 1 and every 1.x update comes from the same link, with nothing to renew. A hosted workspace gets its improvements as they ship.
- No lock-in, everYour records leave as easily as they arrived: Excel, Word, CSV, PDF and printouts you keep.
Work with us
Tell us about the work your team still does by hand.
It is how every one of these tools started.