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.
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 board ranks operations by critical path and puts the one holding up the whole order's date at the top. You stop guessing what to start so the rest is not held up.
What follows what
You draw the production flow once, and the floor, capacity and inspection all read it. That saves you entering the same thing in three places.
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 date comes from that order's own schedule plus transit time. You stop promising dates you later have to apologise for.
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. You no longer walk the floor handing out work.
Stick the label on and you are done
They print from an ordinary printer or a Zebra, and every kind of label has its own template. A new hire stops coming to ask what goes where.
No waiting for the whole runfrom Pro up
As soon as the first crate is full, the next operation can start. The lead time loses the wait for the last piece.
One order, several routesfrom Business up
You split the order into production lots and each takes its own way. You need not turn work down just because it will not fit one machine.
Quality
An inspection is an operation on the map like any other. Whoever has one gets the screens for it, on any plan.
You name the inspection yourself
You put incoming material checks and weld inspections on the map where you actually have them. The verdict 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 flows into stock. Your stock count adds up even after a bad day.
The customer need not ask for the record
The customer sees the inspection record on their own order. You get fewer e-mails asking for it.
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
The system ranks partners 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. You can tell from numbers who to trust with a big order.
Map your own shop
Forgmatic adapts to the way you work, not the other way round.