Make-to-Order Manufacturing
In custom manufacturing, especially industrial metal manufacturing with 10+ operators, you're struggling to balance labour productivity and material costs to lower your cost of goods produced. To expand your business, you need to consistently hit lead times — or else margins and customer service take a hit. Smart Shop Floor solves both.
Made By Job Shops,
For Job Shops
When leading Australian job shops couldn’t find scheduling software that understood their complexity, they collaborated with us to build one from scratch. After four years of testing and development, Smart Shop Floor is the only production scheduling system made by job shops, for job shops.
Industry Challenges
Real Solutions to Your Real Problems
Solution
Slash Production Costs
Smart Shop Floor boosts labour productivity by eliminating the usual time-wasters: operators are matched to the right tasks based on their skills, all job information is ready at their fingertips, and communication flows directly between the workbay, supervisors, and back office.
Discover your true production times to reveal slack time eating into your margins and uncover hidden capacity to grow your business. Smart Shop Floor extends this transparency into materials as well, giving you visibility into every aspect of production costs.
Save money by conserving materials through just-in-time preparation that keeps work flowing instead of cluttering your shop. Bills of Materials are generated directly from your ERP so operators use the right components, while built-in quality checks catch issues early to prevent scrap and expensive rework.
Problem 1
High Cost of Goods Manufactured
Your clients want the best price and you want to give it to them. But bringing down your cost of goods produced — simultaneously finding efficiencies for labour and materials consumption — has been elusive.
Solution
Hit Every Deadline
Hit your delivery dates consistently with capacity-based scheduling that gives clients delivery dates they can actually count on.
Spot problems with real-time alerts as soon as issues arise, so you can jump into action. The system automatically adjusts your schedule around material shortages, machine breakdowns, or staff changes to keep orders on track.
Because your shop floor moves more efficiently, you deliver faster with shorter, reliable lead times that win more work and build the reputation that keeps customers coming back.
Problem 2
Delayed Orders
Missing deadlines costs you both the current order margin and future business. It’s not a position you want to be in again — giving a promise date you think is safe, then watching it slip away because something went wrong and you couldn't adjust fast enough. You need a way to spot problems before they become disasters.
Solution
Keep Customers Happy
Keep your customers informed around the clock with Smart Shop Floor's Customer Portal, giving them peace of mind and real-time order status updates. It streamlines communication in one channel and speeds up critical approvals that keep projects moving.
This better digital customer experience improves satisfaction and drives repeat business. You build customer confidence by providing firm delivery dates from the start, backed by real shop floor progress reports.
Problem 3
Stressed Customers
Customers expect their orders on time, but the only way they can get any reassurance is by repeatedly contacting your team to check up on progress, causing stress and frustration for everyone.
The shop floor scheduling solution that gets the job done.
We bring together everything you need to schedule and manage your shop floor. Save time, reduce downtime, and boost productivity.