SPMS-Server

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

The backend of S-PMS, a production management suite for small manufacturers covering MES, WMS, ERP, quality and IoT device data in one Java application.

Adopt it when

A small Chinese-speaking manufacturer with Java developers wants an open MES and ERP base to customise.

Watch out

No releases, Chinese-only docs, and the author says plainly that support is unpaid and limited.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Java, Redis, InfluxDB and MQTT

How established

Established: started 2 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: SPMS-Server → JDK → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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