Built on theshop floor.
One small South African company, one canonical product per family, configured per client — and kept honest by the people who use it every day.
A turner who learned to write software, not the other way round.
Michael Wentzel qualified as a Red Seal Turner and spent his working life at the machine before he wrote a line of production code. He knows what a foreman actually wants to see at 07:00: which job is on which machine, who has the boring bar, and why the P1 stopped.
Wenbru’s products come out of that. They are not generic business software with a workshop skin — they are built around the job card, the tool cupboard, the signed quote and the audit trail, because those are the objects the work is made of.
Wenbru builds products and configures them per client. That is how one small South African company can run software for an engineering workshop and a service business at the same time, and keep both honest.
“Software should hold tolerance too.”
- 01Apprenticeship
- 02Red Seal artisan
- 03First workshop software
- 04Wenbru Software
| Trading name | Wenbru |
|---|---|
| Based | Vaalpark · Vaal Triangle · South Africa |
| Products | 3 |
| Founder | Michael Wentzel — Red Seal Turner |
| Contact | mchlwentzel@gmail.com |
| Phone | 079 320 2551 |
Running today.
- Wenbru SBMSIn production
First production client: The Fire Guy
- Wenbru TMSIn acceptance testing
On the floor of a working engineering workshop
- Wenbru IrrigationIn the field
Wenbru-operated field deployment · wenbru.co.za
Bring us a job card.
Send one job the way it runs today — paper, WhatsApp, spreadsheet. We will show you how it runs in Wenbru.