The ERP software that speaks the language of the foundry
From casting technical data to shipment: scheduling, heat traceability, quality and true costs in a single system, designed with people who work in foundries.
- Born in a foundry in 1994
- Ferrous and non-ferrous metals
- PC, tablet and smartphone
- Microsoft Azure cloud or on-premises
Why a vertical ERP for foundries
It knows your processes
Heats, charges, patterns, cores, dies and yields are native concepts, not custom fields bolted onto a generic ERP.
Truly customisable
A tailor-made approach: Fond/Wise adapts to the way your foundry is organised, not the other way round.
Fast start-up
Consultants who know foundries dramatically cut analysis and go-live time.
Ready for Industry 4.0
Native integration with PLCs, scales and barcodes, real-time dashboards and machine learning.
Fond/Wise modules
Technical data, patterns & dies
One technical master for castings, patterns, cores, dies and tooling, linked to production, quality and costing.
Learn more →Production planning
Scheduling of moulding, pouring, cores and finishing against the real capacity of lines, furnaces and flasks.
Learn more →Heat & casting traceability
From furnace charge to shipment: every casting linked to its heat, analyses, temperatures and inspections.
Learn more →Quality, scrap & certificates
Inspections, non-conformities, scrap cause analysis and automatically generated certificates.
Learn more →Costing & quotations
True cost per piece and per kg, consistent quotations and margins by part and customer.
Learn more →Orders, price lists, warehouse & logistics
Orders and deliveries, split price lists, purchasing, warehouse, subcontracting, shipping and invoicing.
Learn more →Alloys & chemical analysis
Components, chemical elements, melting loss, price trends and analyses imported from the spectrometer.
Learn more →MES & production tracking
Open and close orders on the shop floor, times, quantities, scrap and operator notes.
Learn more →Dashboards, IIoT & Industry 4.0
Dynamic dashboards, PLC, scale and barcode integration, and machine learning for Industry 4.0.
Learn more →One flow, from order to invoice
Each foundry step feeds the next with data that is already verified.
- Customer order
- Technical data
- Scheduling
- Moulding & cores
- Melting & pouring
- Fettling & treatment
- Quality control
- Shipping & invoicing
Built for every kind of foundry
Iron foundries
Charges, analyses, sand moulding, cores and treatments for grey and ductile iron.
Learn more →Steel foundries
Heat treatment, inspections, certificates and make-to-order jobs for carbon, alloy and stainless steel.
Learn more →Aluminium foundries
Dies, shot counts, alloys and machining for sand, gravity and high-pressure die casting.
Learn more →Brass & bronze foundries
Metal value, returns, multiple alloys and certificates for brass, bronze and copper alloys.
Learn more →In the cloud or in your own server room
Fond/Wise supports the main cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, as well as classic on-premises installation. Choose the architecture that suits your foundry.
Learn more →Cloud
Microsoft Azure · Amazon AWS
On-premise
On your own servers
Guides and insights
How to calculate the cost of a casting
A practical method to calculate casting cost per piece and per kg: poured metal and yield, cores, moulding, fettling, heat treatment and the impact of scrap.
Read the guide →How to choose ERP software for a foundry
The criteria for choosing a foundry ERP: process coverage, traceability, scheduling, costing, shop-floor integration, cloud options and supplier expertise.
Read the guide →Frequently asked questions
What is Fond/Wise?
Fond/Wise is the ERP software developed by RC Informatica specifically for foundries. It covers casting technical data, production planning, heat traceability, quality control, costing, warehouse and finance.
Which kinds of foundry is it for?
Ferrous foundries (grey and ductile iron, steel) and non-ferrous foundries (aluminium, brass, bronze and other alloys), with sand moulding, gravity die or high-pressure die casting.
Does Fond/Wise run in the cloud?
Yes. It can be deployed on Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms, or on-premises on the foundry’s own servers.
How can I see a demo?
Contact RC Informatica via the contact page and we will arrange a demo with a consultant who knows foundries.
Want to see Fond/Wise running on your foundry’s data?
Book a demo with the RC Informatica team — foundry software specialists since 1994.