Say Goodbye to Manual Scheduling, Forever
Send productivity soaring with fully automated scheduling and work allocation.
Production scheduling software built exclusively for job shops and make-to-order manufacturers, it's optimized digitized scheduling that works the way you do, improving shop floor productivity by 17 to 32 percent.
Stop Playing Catch-Up
Get a shop floor solution that puts you one step ahead.
Increased Throughput
Make the most effective use of your talent, and free your operators up to focus on high-value work. Improved organization and productivity-boosting tools saves 45-60 minutes per operator in non-productive time and cuts overtime.
Hit Your Delivery Dates, Every Time
Hitting and maintaining a high on-time delivery rate is a direct measurement of customer satisfaction. Know exactly when jobs will finish - no more guessing or disappointed customers.
A Custom-Built Solution
Smart Shop Floor was built specifically for job shop complexity, developed through years of working with leading manufacturers who deal with custom jobs, changing priorities, and one-off requirements daily.
Reduce Shop Floor Stress
The system reacts to disruptions and updates operators' tasks in response, resulting in fewer fires for you to put out. Operators get clear-cut visibility and direction.
How Automated Scheduling Works Across Your Organization
Connect with your data sources and map out your processes
- Whether you're using manual planning, Excel, or enterprise software, we'll configure Smart Shop Floor to fit your current setup
- Seamlessly connect with your quoting, job management, inventory, and engineering systems
- Map out your production process for each product type, creating a digital workflow that guides work assignment
Create an optimized schedule
- Our scheduling algorithm creates the most efficient plan possible, based on finite, capacity-based scheduling
- Automatically routes complex jobs with hundreds of steps, multiple locations, or extended timelines from quote to delivery
- Jobs are prioritised by customer priority and due dates, so critical work gets done first
- Confirms operator availability, machine capacity, and materials before releasing jobs to the floor
- Override the system anytime with simple drag-and-drop manual adjustments to quickly eliminate conflicts
- Identifies your bottlenecks and sets the pace around them, ensuring maximum throughput
Assign work
- Work is assigned based on staff and equipment available at that moment
- Skill-based allocation matches people based on their capabilities and speed
- Balances workload across your team, rotating through all available operators
- Operators log job progress through the Operator App, automatically tracking time and billable hours
Get everyone on the same page
- Digital production board replaces your whiteboards with live updates - filter by work centre or see the whole workshop at once
- Colour-coded job tiles make it easy to spot urgent work and see what's in progress
- Real-time updates flow straight to the office - no more walking the floor for status updates or playing phone tag with customers
Adapt your schedule in real time
- Schedule automatically adjusts to changes and disruptions, keeping work on track - like machine breakdowns, operators calling in sick, or rush jobs come through the door
- Continuously pulling in new orders from ERP.
Get Better and Faster
- Self-learning algorithm gets smarter with every job, comparing job time estimates to actual performance to improve delivery date accuracy and quote reliability
- Know who's struggling and who's flying by comparing task completion times to your team average
- Delayed jobs flash red so supervisors know immediately when tasks need attention
Visualize
- Monitor critical KPIs to prevent late deliveries and bottlenecks
- Test your plans first to see how inventory, maintenance, or time off will affect delivery dates
- Look ahead to avoid surprises like double-booked machines or quiet periods
- Get warned immediately if any job is at risk of missing its delivery date
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