Software for Production Planning & Control 

The PLANNING BOARD PPS software provides the production planner with information about the current machine and employee allocation plan.

• Relationship between individual work steps & production orders
• Delivery status of an order (red: delayed, orange: critical)

The “delay traffic light” in the PPS software visualizes the status of production orders depending on their delivery status.

• Active production control
• Optimization of adherence to delivery dates, output quantity & costs

The “Bottleneck” color scheme shows the current and future bottlenecks in capacity planning that cause delays in scheduled production orders.

• Early identification of bottleneck resources
• Progress of the delay visualized in color intensity

The PRODUCTION FEEDBACK PDA software provides a detailed overview of all planned processes on a machine. Setup and production processes can be started, stopped and terminated at the touch of a button.

• Display of progress & process duration in real time
• Precise recording of exact working times, even with multi-machine operation

The company has been accelerating its holistic factory digitization since 2015. Initially, the focus was on its own products and services. Today, the company's own plants are being digitally upgraded step by step. Starting with the introduction of PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL.

Today, detailed planning is carried out on the basis of production-relevant information from the 19 processing machines and 10 workstations. The plant manager was particularly impressed by the high degree of flexibility and responsiveness. With PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, the company is able to take into account limited resources at any time and to reprioritize work processes even during ongoing production.

Marc Jobelius, Plant Manager Dohr

"With PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, we have become more efficient, more flexible and, with 30% shorter throughput times, also more responsive. We have been able to increase our delivery reliability from 72% to 94%."

frabona GmbH has been a medium-sized metalworking company for over 30 years and is managed by the second generation of the family, brothers Carmelo and Francesco Bonnano. The main motivation for digitalization is the optimal control of high capacity utilization. Previously, the company planned with EXCEL and it was impossible to respond to short-term requests with reliable delivery dates. 

At frabona, the first planning was ready after just one week, as the applications are immediately available from the cloud. Francesco Bonanno was particularly impressed by the networking of PLANNING BOARD and PRODUCTION FEEDBACK. With PRODUCTION FEEDBACK, he can report the status of production orders directly from the machine or workstation to PLANNING BOARD. This is what makes digital production planning so reliable. PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL is therefore ideally suited to his requirements as a contract manufacturer.

Carmelo Boanno, General Manager

"With PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, we were able to increase our capacity utilization by 25%. The solution is our “single point of truth” for all production-relevant information."

Jörg Lintzen GmbH, founded in 1966, is a contract manufacturer specializing in the production of small series and prototypes and processes even the most difficult materials with the highest precision. In the past, the company used an analog planning board for production planning. This often resulted in planning errors, particularly when workloads were high, which led to bottlenecks and a heavy workload for the workforce. For this reason, the throughput of production orders is to be optimized through the use of cloud-based production planning software.

he PLANNING BOARD's easy-to-use interface and the fact that the production planning software does not require any complex implementation or IT maintenance were particularly convincing. After just 10 days, the PLANNING BOARD completely replaced the existing planning board. To link planning directly with production, Joshua Hempel combines the PLANNING BOARD with the PRODUCTION FEEDBACK PDA software. His employees can report the current production status to the PLANNING BOARD via tablet so that the planning is always updated in real time. This ensures planning transparency at all levels.

Joshua Hempel, future General Manager 

"With the PLANNING BOARD, we can realistically mapour capacity utilization and efficiently avoid bottlenecks."

Since 2007, Frank Ortmanns has been managing the manufacturing company that his father founded in 1989 - in the second generation. Having started out as a pure mechanical engineering company, the company has increasingly focused on classic contract manufacturing in recent years. Frank Ortmanns had reached the limits of his previous production planning solution. It was a pure planning board without any intelligence. Limited resources could not be taken into account.

The PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL software was chosen. The comparison with other solutions showed Frank Ortmanns that there are only “pros or no pros”. This is a challenge for companies of his size, as large systems are complex in terms of functionality and costly to introduce. The aim of digitization was to achieve greater transparency, adherence to deadlines and shorter buffer times for higher capacity utilization. It should therefore be possible to freely define the buffer times between the individual work steps.

Frank Ortmanns, General Manager

"The production planning solution has a very good balance between functionality and complexity. And the price-performance ratio is convincing."

HS-ferinnotec GmbH has been a manufacturer of individual and series parts for precision mechanics, electronics, aviation, medicine and valve construction as well as a manufacturer of design parts in stainless steel construction since 1992. For Hans Schacherbauer, Managing Director of HS-ferinnotec GmbH and owner of Schacherbauer Zerspanungstechnik, digitalization is important in order to constantly advance the company and keep it modern. Previously, the company planned its production orders using EXCEL and Outlook. However, there was no real overview of the machines and individual workstations.

The production planning software is a tool for the company to pursue its digitalization goals. This primarily includes monitoring machine utilization, improving throughput scheduling and optimizing processes. For Hans Schacherbauer, the PLANNING BOARD is ideal because the individual workstations are clearly displayed and processes are color-coded. The individual workstations were also equipped with tablets in order to make full use of the real-time feedback of the production status via PRODUCTION FEEDBACK.

Hans Schacherbauer, General Manager

"Thanks to PLANNING BOARD & PRODUCTION FEEDBACK I was able to improvemy workload by 20%. My planning time has been reduced by 50%."