LabManager

A calm operations workspace for small makerspace labs: equipment status, reservations, members, consumables, and audit logs without a heavy enterprise footprint.

Organized makerspace bench with 3D printers, resin printer, laser cutter, material bins, and a scheduling tablet
Lab readiness Today across printers, laser, CNC, and materials clear
Idle machines 2 / 6
Reservations today 2
Low stock alerts 2

Designed for managers who still work the floor.

LabManager keeps the admin surface dense enough for daily operations, but readable enough for members checking one reservation from a phone.

Equipment

Status is attached to the machine, not a chat thread.

Track idle, in-use, reserved, and error states for printers, resin gear, laser cutters, CNC machines, and shared tools.

Scheduling

Reservations know the equipment they block.

Members can request time, managers see conflicts early, and machine-specific holds can be logged as maintenance reservations.

Consumables

Low stock sits next to the work it affects.

Filament, resin, sheet goods, filters, and safety supplies stay visible in the same operating view as equipment demand.

50 Machine-scale target from the first build.
50 People-scale target for members, managers, and technicians.
Local Prototype persistence through browser storage before backend wiring.
Azure Shaped for Static Web Apps, Functions, and a low-volume data store.

Initial operating surface

One screen for the manager's morning pass.

FDM-01 Printer bay A 3D printer Idle 11:30 fixture prototype Review
Resin-01 Resin room Resin printer Error Vat cleaning required Review
Laser-01 Laser room Laser cutter Reserved 09:00 acrylic panels Review

Bring the admin workspace online

Capture a manager contact and route them toward a scoped workspace setup.