The Benefits of Leveraging PFM for Better Production Control

Production control lets you make customer commitments with confidence. Using PFM, you can adjust the threat level (risk of being late) when unexpected variables arise to ensure all job deadlines are met.

Our production control software provides a clear priority for each operation, without complex finite scheduling. Instead of trying to plan the use of each resource into future time periods, PFM dynamically calculates the threat level of every work order in real time and optimally prioritizes work.

Ensure that every job runs through work centers in the right sequence. By using our production management software to develop optimized flows, you can ensure that work centers aren’t overloaded, thereby enabling you to complete one operation and move seamlessly on to the next.

PFM enables you to strategically allocate work centers for each job, which makes it possible to move more jobs through the shop floor in a shorter period of time.

Traditional scheduling prioritizes work by due date. Our production control software identifies which jobs have the highest threat of being late and prioritizes them accordingly, so work is always completed on time.

Expediting jobs is both time-consuming and costly. PFM eliminates the need for it by enabling you to monitor work completed across all jobs in real time and determine which jobs to expedite without manual analysis.

Our production management software streamlines every aspect of the production cycle and enables you to account for variability. In doing so, we make it possible for you to consistently provide your customers with reliable delivery dates.

PFM provides you with opportunities to capture more business and to charge a premium for shorter lead times. It also provides faster cash velocity, meaning it reduces the amount of time between when you pay for materials and collect from customers.

PFM’s foundation prioritizes work in real time rather than require you to run and re-run a schedule. This puts the most accurate and up-to-date information directly into the hands of the people who need it most. Job assignments are understood, trusted, and executed in the correct order.

Seamlessly integrate our production control software into your existing ERP solution in order to augment and extend its functionality.

Rather than assign future capacity to jobs the way traditional production management software would, PFM simulates capacity usage and points out which jobs and work centers are most likely to have problems. This provides you with a clear picture of the future and enables you to implement an action plan to deliver jobs on time.

PFM automatically adjusts priorities based on real-time labor reporting from PFM or your ERP, so you always have access to the most up-to-date information.

Thanks to real-time reporting, our production management software enables you to see the exact status of every job on the production floor.

PFM takes production control one step further than traditional finite scheduling solutions by not only presenting schedules in an easy-to-understand visual format, but also by color-coding job sequences based on priority. This enables shop floor staff to see what needs to be worked on and when, and for you to see the status of different jobs.

Our production control software plans for unexpected problems that can disrupt a static schedule. It achieves this by calculating time buffers based on the ratio of actual time to buffer time and the sum of different buffer sizes based on the operations required.

PFM is internet-capable, meaning workers can access priority lists from any device connected to the internet, including tablets and smartphones.