Why JobPack® / Visually Intuitive

Bring order to your floor with at-a-glance shop management.

Visually Intuitive

Keep your most crucial manufacturing information front and center.

Too many manufacturers are struggling to manage their shop floor using outdated tools, like paper and spreadhsheets, or poorly designed software that buries key information in a sea of visual noise—if it collects that data at all. Questions like “Are my machines running?” or “Am I behind schedule?” should be answerable at a glance. Too often, they aren’t.

Until now. JobPack’s graphical interface makes it easy to stay on top of manufacturing schedules, make course corrections, and work through multiple production scenarios. Schedulers can easily drag-and-drop projects to fill in production gaps, and notification settings will send alerts if a machine stops running or if there is a shceduling conflict.

Don’t let the simplicity of the visually intuitive software fool you. When you increase the visibility of each step of your manufacturing process—and collect data along the way—you take the guesswork out of your day-to-day operations.

KEY FEATURES

  • Color-coded interfaces allow users to easily identify project status.
  • Drag-and-drop scheduling makes it easy to adjust jobs.
  • Analytics dashboard eliminates knowledge gaps and improves planning.
  • Capacity window shows future production demands and potential bottlenecks.
  • Runtime adjustments show how overtime impacts the production schedule.

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Visually Intuitive Production Scheduling

Challenge:

It’s impossible to know what’s happening on the factory floor without eyes in the shop.

The JobPack Solution:

Real time machine monitoring feeds live project status into the management dashboard.

Challenge:

Projects managed by spreadsheet or on a dry erase board need to be adjusted manually, with greater potential for error.

The JobPack Solution:

Drag and drop scheduling allows managers to quickly re-arrange jobs

Challenge:

Projects fall behind schedule and delays are common, but identifying the root cause is hard to pin down.

 

The JobPack Solution:

The analytics dashboard brings statistical insight to project planning, highlighting logistical blindspots.

Challenge:

There are too many shifting variables to account for using outdated scheduling methods.

The JobPack Solution:

Scheduling tools keep track of crucial scheduling details and alert the scheduler to conflicts.

Challenge:

A client is asking for a rush order, but you aren’t sure how taking on new work would impact your current schedule.

The JobPack Solution:

Our capacity window shows how booked your machines. “What-if” scenario planning lets you test schedules before accepting work.

Challenge:

Your machines aren’t being utilized at full capacity.

The JobPack Solution:

Easily identify gaps in the production schedule and rearrange projects to be more efficient.

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Detailed scheduling tools let you take charge like never before.

Many scheduling tools are limited in what they will allow production managers to do. Features are buried or nonexistent leaving users to find their own workarounds. JobPack makes the work of production scheduling easier, with advanced controls and time-saving settings. Specify run times, setup times, inspection periods, days and hours of operation, service details for suppliers and outside contractors, and more.

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Make your shop floor visible from the back office.

Knowing your machines are running without having to watch them yourself is about more than just peace of mind. Machine monitoring provides insight into usage, downtime reasons, and other factors that directly impact the efficiency of your shop floor. Use machine data to identify improvement strategies, reduce waste and rework, and plan for future capital expendirures.

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View production schedule scenarios in test mode.

Spreadsheets are hard to keep updated and difficult to adjust. More than that, it’s hard to pencil in projects or build test schedules. With JobPack, you can quickly schedule a potential job in test mode to uncover potential conflicts with existing job timeframes, machine assignments, and material needs.

You can shuffle jobs, move timelines, and change priorities with no fear of interrupting the current live schedule. When you’re done, seamlessly revert to the previous schedule without disrupting operations.

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Analytics help minimize machine downtime.

Machine monitoring is about more than basic awareness. The data collected from machine performance can build a rich historical picture of your shop performance over time. JobPack provides at-a-glance data analytics so you can visually see the situation, identify trends and patterns, evaluate the causes, address the problems, and move forward with solutions.

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Information you didn’t have before, with precision.

Some shop-floor mysteries are harder to solve than others. Why does it always take an extra half hour to complete a changeover between jobs? Where did the delay come from that caused a job to run into overtime? Why do plans that work so well on paper never seem to function in the real world?

At-a-glance reporting from JobPack is designed to answer exactly those questions. Planned vs. actual Production Times chart gives you detailed information you didn’t have before that can pinpoint where in your schedule the plan began to diverge from reality. By integrating with your ERP, JobPack unlocks information that was previously inaccessible, providing answers to some of your stickiest shop problems.

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Seeing is believing—and when it comes to visually intuitive software like JobPack, that’s doubly true. We can walk you through our products to show how they handle common manufacturing challenges, answer your questions, and even upload some of your own data to give you a sense for how our software would work in practice. Schedule a demo to experience the transformation we can bring to your shop floor.