Mantox's goal is to be part of digitalising production in SME manufacturing. We start from the point where it most often stalls: information that arrives as a PDF, a scan, or an email attachment.
Digitalising production means that the information needed in production is in a machine-readable format where it is used: in orders, work queues, and calculations.
In an SME, it rarely starts with an ERP project. It starts with a single work step where the same information is typed in again by hand. In a machine shop, a surface treatment facility, and a steel structure manufacturer, that step is reading the incoming enquiry: the customer sends drawings and product lists, and someone breaks them down into line items before anything can be calculated, ordered, or scheduled.
In our spring 2026 preliminary study, 11 SME manufacturing companies — most of them machine shops — described where the manual work in the quoting process arises: interpreting documents (45%) and transferring data between systems (27%). Of the respondents, 64% had noticed a document error too late. Document availability was not the problem; processing them was. Read about the research basis.
Hot-dip galvanising in particular. Wisuron was developed in collaboration with Vihdin Kuumasinkitys, and the idea grew out of the everyday reality of a surface treatment operator: incoming enquiries are read and broken down every day.
Beams, tubes, trusses, and small parts. Technical drawings and product lists are routinely extracted: item, dimensions, material, quantity, and weights.
The same need exists in other SME manufacturing sectors where enquiries arrive as drawings and product lists. That is where we are heading next — one industry at a time, together with operators in that industry, just as we started.
If you work in a sector where incoming documents are still read manually, tell us what you read.
Digitalising production is best started at the point where information enters the company. When the content of an enquiry is a structured breakdown rather than a PDF, the subsequent steps can build on top of it.
Wisuron is built for this step. It reads drawings, product lists, and enquiries with their attachments and returns an Excel breakdown in which every product is on its own line. The breakdown is advisory and is reviewed before use; pricing and quoting are done in your own systems.
It means that the information needed in production is in a machine-readable format where it is used: in orders, work queues, and calculations. In an SME, it rarely starts with an ERP project. It starts with a single work step where the same information is typed in again by hand.
At the point where information enters the company. Enquiries arrive as PDF drawings, scanned product lists, and email attachments, and someone reads them and types the content into line items. When this step produces a structured breakdown, the subsequent steps can build on top of it.
In surface treatment — hot-dip galvanising in particular — and in steel structures: beams, tubes, trusses, and small parts. Wisuron was developed in collaboration with Vihdin Kuumasinkitys. The same need exists in other SME manufacturing sectors where enquiries arrive as drawings and product lists.
Mantox Solutions Oy is a Helsinki-based software company whose goal is to be part of digitalising production in SME manufacturing. The company's product Wisuron reads technical drawings, product lists, and enquiries with their attachments and returns an Excel breakdown in which every product is on its own line. It is the first step of digitalisation: an incoming document becomes structured data.
