What we do
Production and the shop floor
The price takes a minute. The order takes two weeks. This page is about the two weeks.
What your day looks like now
- A customer rings to ask where their order is, and you walk out to the floor to look.
- Due dates live in one person's spreadsheet. When they are off sick, nobody knows them.
- You find out something slipped at the moment it should have been finished.
What changes
- Customers find the status themselves and the phone rings less.
- Everyone reads due dates from the same place and nobody retypes them.
- You hear about a slip while there is still something to be done about it.
The production map
The production map is a picture of how an order moves through your shop.
You lay out the steps a part goes through, say cutting, bending, welding and inspection. You draw it yourself in the admin, once, and everything else reads from it.
- Cuttinglaser
- Bendingpress brake
- Weldingwelding bay
- Inspectionfinal check
The same map is read by
- The shop floorThe operator at a machine sees only their step and knows where the part goes next.
- CapacityHours are added up per machine, so you can see where work will pile up.
- InspectionAn inspection is a step like the others. Wherever it sits on the map is where the result is recorded.
This is the map in the app. You drag the steps into place and join them with arrows.
Where each order is
You don't retype it anywhere. It is read from what the shop floor reported.
What to start on Monday
The order board puts at the top the operation that would delay the whole order.
What follows what
You draw the production flow once, on the production map, and the floor, capacity and inspection all read it.
Whether you can even make it
For each operation you see the hours queued against what your machines take in a week. You spot an overloaded machine before an order gets stuck on it.
A date you won't have to move
The estimated delivery date is worked out from your machine queue and shipping, so the dates you promise are more realistic.
The shop floor
A terminal where the person stands. Not a form filled in after the shift.
Everyone sees only their own queue
The operator picks a workstation and gets the tasks for it.
Stick the label on and you are done
They print from an ordinary printer or a label printer (a Zebra, for example), and every kind of label has its own template.
No waiting for the last piecefrom Pro up
As soon as the first crate is full, the next operation can start. The order is finished sooner.
One order, several routesfrom Business up
You split the order into production lots and each takes its own way, say on two machines at once.
Quality
An inspection is a step on the production map like any other. Once you add it to the map, you get the screens for recording the result, on any plan.
You name the inspection yourself
You add incoming material checks and weld inspections to the map where you actually do them. The result stays with the part instead of disappearing with a notebook.
A reject does not break your stock
A shop-floor non-conformance and a customer complaint sit on the same order, and scrapped material is written off from stock automatically. Stock levels stay right even after a bad day.
The customer need not ask for the record
The customer sees the inspection record on their own order, and on the order status page too.
Six months on, you can still trace the material
Scan the label on the part and you see the order, material, batch and supplier. You search from the part to the supplier, not the other way through delivery notes.
When you cannot take it all
Who will do it better and soonerfrom Business up
You enter the partners you work with yourself. The system ranks them by price and lead time, and says why it ruled someone out. You take on work you would otherwise have to refuse.
Who you can trustfrom Business up
The ranking shows quality score, complaint rate and scrap rate side by side. The score is calculated from the orders you handed over and the complaints on them.
Draw your production map
Forgmatic adapts to the way you work, not the other way round.