Protected Flow Manufacturing

With PFM, you will always know the answers to critical questions like, “What should we work on now?” and “What should we work on next?” Even more important, you will be able to tell customers with confidence when they will get their orders, knowing the delivery dates are solid.

Other manufacturing scheduling tools assume that everything will go as planned. These plans quickly become out-of-date when “stuff” happens. PFM knows the unexpected will occur and dynamically adjusts resource assignments in real time to head off problems. The most current, accurate information is always in the hands of the people that need it. Job assignments are understood, trusted, and completed in the right order.

The traditional approach scheduling prioritizes work orders by due date. PFM looks at due date and job duration to ensure that longer jobs are started at the right time (even if that means starting before shorter jobs that are due sooner). This approach optimizes resources across all jobs to avoid lateness.

Expediting jobs is time consuming, costly, disruptive, and stressful for your team. PFM reduces the amount of “hot jobs” by monitoring work completed across all jobs in real time and reprioritizing automatically to keep all jobs on track for OTD.

PFM can seamlessly be integrated or embedded directly into your existing manufacturing ERP system to augment and extend its functionality. If you don’t yet have an ERP, PFM can serve as a standalone scheduling platform.

Traditional planning and scheduling software requires extremely high data accuracy and constant data maintenance to work. PFM makes things much simpler, allowing you to gain visibility on the status of every job and begin improving on-time delivery in a matter of days.