PMC

Prior to working with Thorgate, an accounting software for inventory management and paper-based work orders for production were used to manage the processes. Due to that, the same information was being replicated to multiple locations. In order to reduce the overall management workload and provide a better insight into actual production efficiency, a custom software was developed that integrated directly into the accounting system. In addition to that, it allowed each order to be tracked from it being created, all the way through different steps of production, welding, finishing all the way to assembly and a Waybill or a CMR being created within the system.

The software itself consisted of 4 parts: Orders, Production planning and Production and Reports. In the orders view, all the relevant details about the order can be seen such as the client details, products but also the necessary components required to produce this.

In the Production planning phase, the user can see similar orders from the past, to add as a reference for the workers, assign the stages the product needs to pass as well as edit the component list required for this order or even add or create additional products, if need be.

Once the order has been sent to production, the workers themselves can see the works assigned to them from their Tablets and logg time under each product separately pressing play or pause whenever they are working or 1 or another order/product, or even cancelling it with an X when something went wrong and marking it as done ✓ once they are finished. Cancelling or finishing the product makes it disappear from the workers view as they are no longer relevant for that employee at that time.

The worker can also open each product and see additional details that might help them work on this order as well as feedback from quality control in case the product came back from QA.