Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC is a computer systems design studio that works the way a paint studio works: one shelf at a time, one brush at a time, one careful coat at a time. We plan, build and support the quiet technical layer behind a working pottery so that makers can spend their hours painting greenware instead of fighting spreadsheets, patchy Wi-Fi and order slips. Our studio sits at 11714 S Oakmond Rd, South Jordan, 84009-5050, United States, and every system we ship is wired and tested by hand.
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Half painted greenware vase
Each rack below holds one of the six services Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC delivers. The racks hang on two staggered wall battens, the way a working studio uses every inch of vertical space, and each one carries the same care you would expect from a hand painted piece.
We connect the kiln controller to the studio network, log every firing profile, and give you a simple dashboard that shows where each load stands. Schedules stop living on a paper cone pack and start living where everyone can see them.
Clay, glaze, bisque blanks and finished work all get counted in one clear platform. Reorder points are set once, and the studio gets a weekly note whenever a shelf is running low.
Every custom commission gets a tracked journey from deposit to pickup. Customers receive plain language updates, and the studio always knows which piece is on which shelf.
Your online storefront, your card reader and your shelf counts are woven into one system. A sale online updates the shelf, and a sale in the studio updates the web listing.
We map the room, place access points where dust and metal will not defeat them, and separate guest traffic from the machines that run your kilns and printers.
Order histories, customer lists and firing logs are backed up on a schedule you can trust. If a laptop dies on a busy Saturday, the studio keeps working on Monday.
Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC opens its winter studio-system onboarding slots for Utah makers, and a short planning call is all it takes to reserve one.
A small pottery often grows faster than its tools. One maker starts with a notebook, a single kiln and a card reader on a folding table. Two years later there are three kilns, a waiting list for commissions, a web store, a part time helper and a wall of sticky notes that no longer explains anything. The work that made the studio successful is now the work that slows it down. That gap, between the craft a studio loves and the machinery a studio depends on, is exactly where Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC works.
We treat a studio the way a careful painter treats a greenware piece: look at the whole surface first, decide where each color belongs, and only then pick up a brush. Before we write a line of code we walk the room. We watch how a kiln load gets scheduled, where the clay actually lives, how a finished vase moves from the drying shelf to the packing bench to the customer. Those small observations decide the shape of the system far more than any software catalog ever will.
Our work is grounded in computer integrated systems design, which simply means that the separate pieces of your operation are made to speak to one another. A kiln controller that reports its own temperature curve, an inventory platform that knows a vase just left the shelf, a storefront that keeps its listing honest, and a network that carries all of it without dropping a packet. When those pieces are welded together with intention, a maker feels less like a juggler and more like an artist again.
A pottery is a hard place for electronics. There is clay dust in the air, heat near the kilns, water at the sink and metal tools on every bench. A network that works in a carpeted office may fail in that room, and a tablet that runs a shop in a dry boutique may choke on a humid studio floor. We choose hardware for the environment, we seal and mount it properly, and we test every system against the mess a working studio actually produces. This is not a laboratory exercise. It is a room where people make things with their hands.
We also design for the people who will actually use the system. A studio owner may be comfortable with a spreadsheet but not with a command line. A part time helper may only need one clear screen that says what to pack today. So we favor plain labels, large touch targets, short screens and honest error messages. The best studio system is the one that gets used on a busy Saturday without a phone call to a technician.
After a system goes live, we stay available. Every build includes a written handover, a short training session and a support window. When a kiln controller needs a firmware change or a new employee needs access, you reach a person who already knows your studio. We would rather keep one small pottery running smoothly for years than sell a complicated platform that nobody understands.
A studio day touches every one of our services, often before lunch. A maker checks the kiln after a night firing, pulls a custom order from the shelf, updates the web store, answers a message and starts painting the next round of greenware. Each step depends on the one before it, and each one is somewhere our systems quietly help. The kiln control integration shows the firing curve so nobody has to guess. The studio inventory platform says there is enough clay for the next two weeks. Custom order tracking tells the maker which commission is ready for pickup. Storefront and POS integration keeps the online listing and the physical shelf in agreement. The studio network carries every message and update without a dropped connection. Data backup keeps all of it safe if a hard drive fails. Read the full detail on the services page, where each one is described in depth.
Before the studio opens, the kiln room is checked. With our kiln control integration, the firing log from the night before is already waiting in a simple view. The controller reports its top temperature, hold time and cooling curve. If a firing drifted, the studio sees it early and can adjust the next load. No more writing temperatures on the back of a receipt.
By mid morning the shelves are being handled. Our studio inventory platform keeps a live count of clay bags, glaze bottles, bisque blanks and finished pieces. When the brush-green glaze drops below the reorder line, the platform adds it to a buy list. The maker never has to stop and take a paper inventory again.
Custom work is where a studio can lose track of itself. Custom order tracking gives each commission a clear status, from deposit to forming, from painting to firing, from finishing to pickup. The customer gets a friendly update at each step, and the studio gets a single board that answers the question of what is due next.
When a customer buys a mug at the counter, the storefront and POS integration records the sale, updates inventory and adjusts the online listing. When someone buys a vase from the website, the shelf count drops and the packing list appears. The two worlds, online and in the room, stay in step all day.
None of this works without a network that holds up. Our studio network and Wi-Fi design places access points for real coverage, gives the kiln controllers and printers a stable wired path, and keeps guest devices away from the machines that matter. The result is a room where the technology fades into the background.
At the end of the day, data backup for studio records runs on its own schedule. Orders, customer notes, firing logs and photos are copied to a safe location. If a laptop is dropped in a bucket of slip, the studio can be back on its feet the same afternoon. Learn how all six fit together on the services page.
We keep the process short and legible, with no jargon and no surprises. Most studios move from first call to a working system in a handful of carefully planned steps.
We visit or meet online, walk the room and listen to how the studio actually runs. No pitch, just questions and notes.
You receive a written plan with the systems, hardware, costs and timeline laid out in plain language.
We install, connect and test each piece against real studio conditions until the whole set works together.
Training, a written guide and a support window keep the system healthy long after launch day.
No. Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC works with what you already own wherever it makes sense. We integrate existing kiln controllers, card readers and storefronts, and we only recommend a replacement when a current tool cannot be made to cooperate. The goal is a connected studio, not a warehouse of new boxes.
Most single room studios are planned in one or two sessions and built over a few weeks. Larger production studios with several kilns and a busy web store take longer, and we schedule the work around your firing calendar so nothing interrupts a load.
You contact the studio at +16075108570 or studio@firedsunflowerpottery.hair. Every build includes a support window, a written recovery guide and scheduled backups, so a failure in one piece rarely stops the room. We aim for calm Mondays even after a rough Saturday.
Tell us about your studio, your kilns and the parts of the day that feel heaviest. Fired Sunflower Pottery LLC will walk the room with you and bring back a plan you can actually use.
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