A simple system that simplified the factory chaos

For decades, the print factory floor was a kingdom built on ink, paper, and a precarious system of verbal updates. A critical job moving from press to binding was tracked not by a glowing dashboard, but by a hurried phone call or a grease-stained clipboard. Production tracking was a communication crisis waiting to happen.

Mumbai-based Puneet Rawat and his team spent nearly two decades observing this chaos, culminating in a three-year development sprint to build an antidote. 

Clicarity isn't trying to be an enterprise monolith. “Most ERP systems are designed for finance and inventory,” said Rawat. “Clicarity focuses purely on production workflow visibility.” It is a lightweight, purpose-built digital layer that skips the heavy training and administrative bloat of traditional software. Its core philosophy is radical simplicity for the shop floor: a system “that even the least tech-savvy operator can comfortably use.”

Rawat says the product was designed specifically for the weakest communication link in the factory — the shop-floor operator who needs to update production quickly without navigating complex software.

The mechanism is deceptively simple: The job ID is the central atom. When a component moves to a new process—be it printing, binding, or packing—the operator simply enters or selects the job ID and updates the status. That's it. Clicarity automatically time-stamps the change, creating an instant, immutable production trail.

For users like Vivek Tibrewala at GP Offset, the ease of use was a breakthrough. “Our operators simply enter the job ID and update their stage,” he notes. “Even team members who are not comfortable with software started using it easily.”

The system’s true intelligence reveals itself in the complexity it manages under the hood. For a sophisticated product like a rigid box, a single job might break down into six or more components—top labels, trays, bottom boards—each tracked individually through its own labyrinth of processes. Clicarity handles this split tracking, reassembling the data once all components are pasted, and continuing to track the finished unit toward dispatch.

Furthermore, Clicarity tackles the hidden drain of manufacturing: wastage. The system allows teams to record lot-wise quantity and waste at every production stage. This level of granularity provides a crucial layer of business intelligence, clearly showing managers where losses are accumulating in the production chain.

With flexible fields to adapt to varied workflows and role-based visibility ensuring that an operator sees only their relevant process while a manager sees the whole factory, Clicarity is a clear, single-source-of-truth dashboard. By stripping away the bloat and focusing on a single, clean user input—the job ID—Clicarity has engineered a fast, adoptable solution that ensures, in the words of Sanjit Mithani of Four Speed Manufacture, they can “map the movement of every job clearly across production.” The era of shouting updates over the din of the machines is officially over.