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welcome to orbit.

The first-ever lab operating system.

See everything. Miss nothing.

Orbit™ means no lost cases, true cost-per-case reconciliation, zero data entry, and same-day labor feedback.

Every case, station, and cost — tracked live, right at the bench.

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Built inside a working lab Runs at the bench, not the office
Case board Today · 42 open · 1 behind
24-08812 Zirconia crown · Dr. Alvarez MillingThu 2p
24-08813 3-unit bridge · Dr. Whitfield DesignThu 5p
24-08809 Night guard · Dr. Okonkwo ReadyWed 9a
24-08801 Implant crown · Dr. Alvarez BehindLate
24-08795 Full denture · Dr. Marchetti ShippedTue 4p
24-08814 Partial framework · Dr. Whitfield SinteringFri 11a

What we heard

We asked labs what actually holds them back.

Almost every answer led to the same place — the lab management system itself.

01

The system says one thing. The floor says another.

The order lives in one system. The work lives in three more. Nothing talks to anything else.

02

The daily audit is a person with a clipboard.

Every morning, the same walk — a printed report and a stack of color-coded pans.

03

Cases go missing. Others just sit.

One nobody can find. One that hasn't moved in three days. The doctor finds both first.

04

Nobody can say what a crown actually costs.

Monthly COGS, sure. Cost per case? Nobody's ever run that number. Margin stays a guess.

05

Files are what break when you grow.

The handoff from design to production is where growth stalls — one wrong version, one remake.

06

Remakes disappear into a good month.

External remakes get counted, because the doctor's watching. Internal ones just get quietly redone.

The system

Everything orbits one case.

Six modules, no bolt-ons, no syncing between systems. Wherever you're standing on the floor, you're looking at the same case everyone else is. Click one to see what it does.

CasesIntakeDesignManufacturingInventoryPortal

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End-to-End Case Management

Every case, start to shipped, on one screen.

  • True cost-per-part, calculated automatically as the case moves
  • Every part consolidated and verified before a box is ever taped shut
  • Shipping triggered the moment a case is complete — no separate step
  • One control panel that gives the lab owner the whole floor at a glance
IOS Aggregator

Every scanner. Every brand. One inbox.

  • Every scanner, every brand, pulled into one place — no more checking five portals
  • AI reads the Rx the moment it lands, so cases open before anyone types a word
Design Hub

In-house or outsourced, moving the same way.

  • Internal and outsourced design managed side by side, in one queue
  • Handoffs automated end to end — no case waits on someone to notice it's ready
Manufacturing Automation

The floor, running itself.

  • Printing and milling run in parallel, so the floor never waits on one machine
  • Nesting handled automatically — no wasted disc, no wasted time
  • Labor tracked at the bench, feeding real productivity data back same day
  • Capacity planned before you're overbooked, not discovered after
  • Outsourced work managed in the same system as work done in-house
Inventory Management

Off the clipboard, onto the system.

  • Barcode scanning replaces manual counts and guesswork
  • Equipment and racking tracked so nothing is ever “somewhere on the floor”
  • Purchasing automated before you run out, not after
  • Lot control down to the batch, in case anything needs to be traced
  • Expiration dates tracked automatically — nothing expires unnoticed in a drawer
Doctor Portal

Your doctors, served without a phone call.

  • Doctors manage their own cases without calling your front desk
  • Preferences saved once, applied to every future case automatically
  • Billing and payment handled directly in the portal — card or ACH
  • Secure messaging keeps every question attached to the case, not lost in email

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The floor

No clipboard. No typing. No gaps.

Every step below was captured by a scanner or a badge, not typed by a person — the case logged itself as it moved.

24-08812 Zirconia crown · #14 · Dr. Alvarez Promised Wed · shipped Tue
  1. Mon 8:14aArrived from the portalScan, prescription and shade landed together. Case opened before anyone touched it.
  2. Mon 9:02aDesign startedPicked up by Chen, 14 minutes after it arrived.
  3. Mon 11:40aDesign lockedVersion 3 out of 3Shape, attached to the case. Earlier versions can no longer be milled.
  4. Mon 2:15pNested and milledDisc ZR‑98‑441, 41 minutes. 0.14 of the disc consumed and costed.
  5. Mon 6:30pSinteredTray 12, overnight cycle, shared with 23 other units.
  6. Tue 9:05aFinished22 minutes at the bench, captured from the workstation.
  7. Tue 11:20aCheckedVerified against the prescription before it could ship.
  8. Tue 2:40pConsolidated1 of 1 parts scanned to the case. Box confirmed complete.
  9. Tue 3:15pShipped1Z…4408, visible in the practice's portal the same minute.
  10. Tue 3:15pInvoiced$142.00, with $41.24 of cost already attached. Margin 71.0%.

Cost per case

What did that crown actually cost you?

Most labs can answer that for a month. Almost none can answer it for a case. Orbit attaches material, machine time, labor and outsourcing the moment the work happens — so margin by product, by doctor, by technician is a number you can look up, not a guess you live with.

The disc you actually consumed — the real fraction, not a rounded-off allowance.
Consumables priced to the fraction of a cent — a burr with a thousand crowns in it, costed like it.
Machine time, real cost — depreciation and power, landed on the case that used it.
Labor from the bench, not a guess — captured from what technicians actually did, not an estimate from last year.
24-08812 · Zirconia crown Dr. Alvarez
MaterialZirconia disc · 0.14 of a 98 mm $18.40
Machine timeMill 41 min · sinter share 38 min $3.20
ConsumablesBurr wear · 1/1000 of its life $0.04
LaborDesign 12 min · finish 22 min $19.60
OutsourcingNone$0.00
Cost$41.24
Invoiced$142.00
Margin71.0%

Doctor portal

Your doctors stop calling to ask where the case is.

They see exactly what your floor sees — just their cases. Fewer calls to your front desk, and invoices that get paid on their own.

Live from intake to shipped — the tracking number lands the moment the case leaves.
Paid by card or ACH, on their own time — statements pulled on demand, not phoned in for.
Pickups and questions live on the case — the answer's attached to the work, not buried in an inbox.
Alvarez Family DentalTheir view
24-08812 Zirconia crown · #14 In productionDue Thu
24-08801 Implant crown · #30 In productionDue Fri
24-08770 Zirconia bridge · #19–21 Shipped1Z…4408
Balance$4,182.50 · 12 days

Reporting

Answers, not exports.

Production and billing run on the same case, so every report reads real work as it happened — nothing to rebuild, nothing to reconcile, and no spreadsheet that only one person knows how to update.

Daily businessYesterday, on one page
Cost and marginPer case, per product, per doctor
Work in progressEverything on the floor, right now
Turnaround timeWhere the days actually go
AR agingWho owes what, and how late
Remake attributionTraced back to the station it started at
ProductivityBy technician, by bench
Customer activityWho's growing, who's gone quiet
Production volumeUnits out the door
Inventory valuationWhat the stockroom is worth, today
Net revenueAfter credits and remakes
Labor costTied to real cases, not estimates

Integrations

Fits the lab you already have.

Your scanners, your design software, your nesting tools, your material supplier and your payments — all keep working the way they already do. Orbit connects to them so a file, an order or a payment never needs a person to carry it across.

Third-party names describe interoperability only. They do not imply endorsement or partnership.

Integration

iCortica

Your customer-facing team works from the same picture of the account as the floor.

  • Case and account data stay in step, automatically
  • The people talking to doctors see exactly what production sees
  • No separate CRM update after the fact
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Integration

Relu coming soon

Scans arrive already checked, and design starts before a technician opens the file.

  • IOS scans aggregated from every source into one inbox
  • Scan quality flagged automatically before it reaches design
  • AI-assisted restoration design gets a head start on every case

Integration

3Shape

Cases arrive from the scanners and software you already use, and designs return to the same case they left.

  • Prescription, patient and shade land with the scan
  • Trios and Dental Manager cases flow in without re-entry
  • Automate and Design Services output attach directly to the case
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Integration

Oqcam

Nesting handled automatically, across additive and subtractive jobs alike.

  • Discs and build trays nested without a person laying it out by hand
  • Material use optimized the same way whether it's milled or printed
  • Nesting output tracked back to the case that consumed it

Integration

Argen.com & ArgenLink

Materials arrive already described, ordered against what the floor actually used, and outsourced work runs through the same system.

  • Catalog auto-populates material data — no manual entry
  • Order from inside Orbit against real consumption, not a guess
  • Outsourcing managed alongside in-house work, not in a separate system
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Integration

Shipping carriers

Labels print and addresses validate right where the case already is.

  • Address checked automatically before a label is generated
  • Tracking number lands on the case and in the doctor's portal, instantly
  • No separate carrier site, no copy-pasting tracking numbers

Why us

We're not a software company. We're an Orbit lab.

Orbit was built inside a working dental lab, by people who were losing cases and margin to the exact systems you're using now. Every screen on this page exists because somebody needed it yesterday.

Built where it's used

Not a software company's idea of a lab. The people who built these screens have stood at the bench and shipped the case themselves.

Configured to your floor

Your stations. Your products. Your sequence. We've never asked a lab to change how it works to fit the software — the software fits you.

You get the people who built it

Not a ticket queue. Not a rep who's gone by next quarter. Labs switch because support collapsed somewhere else. We know that's the real bar.

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See it against your own process.

Half an hour on a call with someone who has actually run a lab floor. We show you the parts that matter to how you work, and ask a lot about the rest. If it looks like a fit, the next step is us on your floor — not another call.

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