Manufacturing

A production plan where a date change is one drag

Work-center load, order queue and material requirements in one place. The planner sees which orders will shift and what will run short before confirming the change.

Does this sound like your planning?

A plan in Excel that one person understands

A spreadsheet with colours and macros nobody but the planner touches. When the planner is on holiday, the week's plan stands still.

A customer's date change is an hour of rework

The customer moves collection by a week. The planner reshuffles orders in three files, calls purchasing and reprints the floor's schedule. Something slips along the way.

Material arrives too late or sits too long

Supplier orders placed from memory and with a "just in case" buffer. One day the profile for tomorrow is missing, the next the warehouse is full of material from six months ago.

Seven parts that make up the system

Built around your work centers, routings and the way your planner works. We start with one department.

Drag-and-drop planning board

Orders on a timeline per work center. Drag an order and the system recalculates the queue and shows which orders will miss their date.

Work-center and shift load

Available hours per work center from the work calendar, holidays and maintenance. You see where there is slack and where a third shift or a subcontractor is needed.

Material requirements (MRP)

From BOMs, the plan and stock levels comes a list of shortages with dates. A supplier order is created from it in one click.

Rule-based sequencing

Due dates, customer priorities, fewer changeovers, batching runs of the same part. The system proposes a queue, the planner corrects it.

Queue on the shop-floor screen

The foreman and operator see the current queue for their work center. A plan change appears on the floor within a minute.

Date check for sales

The salesperson checks when an order can realistically be promised, counting load and material. A promised date is backed by the plan.

Plan versus actual

Plan compared with reality per work center and order: delays, reasons, standard times next to actual ones.

What AI does in planning

Three years ago features like these needed a data science team. Today language models read emails, documents and photos, and we build them into the system we make for you. Below is what makes sense in this solution. A person approves, AI prepares.

A proposed queue for the week

From due dates, load, material and time history the model lays out a proposed plan. The planner reviews, reshuffles and approves.

Example 40 orders across three work centers with two critical dates → a proposed queue with the orders that will not fit without overtime marked

An early warning on a due date

The model learns from history how far actual times differ from standard ones at each work center, and warns about a date at risk while there is still room to reshuffle.

Example a welding order planned for 6 hours, history of this part says 8 → an alert about Friday's collection being at risk

A date change from an email

A customer's email about a moved collection or a changed quantity arrives as a proposed plan change, with its consequences to review.

Example email "can you add 200 more pieces to the same delivery?" → a proposal to increase the order, with whether material and the work center can take it

Ask the plan

The salesperson, owner or foreman asks in plain language. The answer comes from the current plan.

Example "will we make it for Nowak by the 20th if the urgent one from Kowalski comes in?" → a list of orders that will shift, and by how much

Effects you see in the first month

  • A customer's date change is one drag, because the system recalculates the queue and material
  • Material shortages show with dates, so purchasing orders for the date and the warehouse does not overfill
  • The floor works from the current queue, because a plan change lands on the work-center screen
  • The salesperson promises a date backed by the plan, because they check the load before the call
What it connects to

Works with the ERP, the floor and purchasing

Orders and BOMs come from the ERP, completion from the floor or the MES, stock from the warehouse. The plan goes back to the ERP.

Comarch ERP XLenova365SAP Business OneStreamsoft PrestiżImpuls EVOSymfoniaMES/SCADAOPC UAZebraEDIExcel (import of current plans)Microsoft 365Google Workspace

From the planner's spreadsheet to a plan on the shop-floor screen

The first version does what the spreadsheet does today, only faster and for everyone. The planner works in both until they stop opening the spreadsheet.

01

Analysis and planning map

We sit down with the planner, the production manager and purchasing. We write down work centers, routings and the sequencing rules in the planner's head.
2 weeks
02

First department on the plan

Planning board, load and a shop-floor queue for one department. Orders from the ERP come in automatically.
8–10 weeks
03

MRP, further departments and sales

Material requirements and supplier orders, the remaining departments, date checks for sales.
3–6 weeks each
04

Development by your queue

New sequencing rules, subcontractors, time prediction models. You set the order.
ongoing

Does your company run on Excel, emails and a system from years ago? We will build the solution that puts it in order, with AI inside from the start.

You have the diagnosis, we build the solution. Web applications, B2B portals and automations for companies without a large IT department. Today a system can read emails and documents, suggest decisions and answer customers on its own, so we build that in from the first version, not as an add-on a year later.

We agree scope, price and dates upfront, show progress every week, and the code and data stay yours.

  • scope, price and dates upfront
  • progress every week
  • your code and data

Common questions

Does this replace the planning module in our ERP?
Depends on what you have. If the ERP handles orders and the warehouse, it stays the data source and the system adds the board, the queue and MRP. If you plan in Excel, the system takes over that role.
Our planner has the rules in their head. Can they be carried over?
Yes, that is the main part of the analysis. We write them down with the planner (who takes priority, what not to combine on one machine, how long a changeover takes) and enter them as rules. The planner has the final say.
Do we have to stop production for the rollout?
No. The planner works in the system alongside the spreadsheet for a few weeks, and the floor gets the queue on screen next to the printout.
How does the system know real operation times?
At the start, from routings and process sheets, then from completion data: the MES, scans on the floor or the foreman's confirmations.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do. The code in your repository, the plan and history in your database. No per-user fees.

Let's talk about your production plan

You tell us how the week's plan is made today and what happens when a customer changes a date, we tell you which department to start with.

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