Run a Tighter Shop Floor
Optimise your core production steps while driving continuous improvement through real-time feedback.
Active operator participation streamlines quality and dispatch processes. Maximise your people and resources to achieve speed, reduce costs, and enhance product quality.
Benefits
Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine
Turn every part of your operation into a competitive advantage.
Increased Operational Efficiency
By connecting scheduling with shop floor operators, real-time production data helps supervisors remove bottlenecks, improve operator performance, and optimise machine utilisation to maximise efficiency.
Informed Maintenance Planning Reduces Downtime
Make regular maintenance a priority without sacrificing productivity or causing costly interruptions. Schedule maintenance smoothly into your workflow to increase equipment uptime and lifespan while lowering emergency repair costs.
Operator-Led Quality Reduces Rework Costs
Empower operators to own quality at their station. Built-in quality checks throughout production reduce defects and rework costs.
Real-Time Information for Better Decisions
Give every role the insights they need to be effective. Data comes straight from the shop floor and updates system-wide automatically, so everyone works from current information instead of chasing down answers.
Shop Floor Data Collection
Minute-by-minute labour and productivity data capture
Get real-time data from your shop floor that captures labour, material usage, and job progress with precision you've never had before. As your operators work through their digital timesheets and log any downtime on tablets, Smart Shop Floor captures everything without disruption, tapping into how they already work.
- Log downtime reasons using customised options to pinpoint exactly when and why holdups happen
- Record precise job times for bulletproof costing and up to 30% more reliable scheduling estimates
Quality Management
Every Operator Taking Ownership of Quality
Empower your operators to take ownership of quality instead of relying on a dedicated QA person to catch everything during crunch time. Operators complete simple checks before passing the job to the next work centre, logging their digital hold-point QA report in Smart Shop Floor. Any measurement outside specifications immediately triggers rework, preventing small issues from becoming expensive problems downstream.
- Quality issues trigger immediate alerts and supervisor sign-off is required before work continues
- Auto-generated forms ensure the correct form every time, properly filed
- Quality forms shared through the Customer Portal provide traceability and confidence
Bill of Materials & Materials Tracking
Smart Shop Floor connects your ERP to the shop floor
Smart Shop Floor connects your ERP to the shop floor, delivering digital pick lists and BOMs directly to operator tablets. Material usage is logged automatically as work progresses — turning your weekly stocktake into a quick check instead of a full-day exercise.
- Material availability is checked before new work is scheduled, so shortages don't derail jobs already in progress
- Delayed jobs go on hold automatically until stock arrives, with completion times recalculated to protect delivery deadlines
- When physical stock doesn't match the system, operators log actual quantities used and variances are flagged for supervisor sign-off before any adjustments are made
Maintenance Planning
Easy Planned Maintenance Scheduling That Minimizes Production Disruptions
Treat planned maintenance in your scheduling just like any other job to ensure it gets done reliably without disrupting your important work. Smart Shop Floor makes it easy to stay on top of preventative maintenance so you can avoid equipment breakdowns that cost time and money. Well-maintained equipment keeps your shop running smoothly and protects your profitability.
- Maintenance scheduled and tracked automatically so it happens when it should
- Displaced operators reassigned to priority jobs, keeping everyone productive during scheduled downtime
- Complete maintenance records captured and stored for compliance and easy reference
Dispatch
Staging Queue Dashboard Brings Order to Dispatch
Stop finished goods from getting lost in the dispatch shuffle. The Staging Queue is a unified dashboard that helps packing and shipping staff coordinate their work to keep goods continuously flowing to customers on time. This detailed level of information makes partial shipments easy and reduces mistakes. When dispatch happens on the fly, delivery windows get missed and completed work sits around gathering dust instead of heading out the door.
- Clear view of incoming and outgoing orders keeps your team coordinated
- On-demand dispatch documentation with photos of packed goods for insurance records and customer confidence
- Complete digital recordkeeping packages all job records into encrypted PDFs stored securely
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