Topic guide · Manufacturing & Production
Planning guesses when production reality lags the office — shop-floor tracking exists so schedule, WIP, and downtime are visible before rework and missed dispatch dates.
Continue to contactSpreadsheet schedules diverge from the floor by midday. Supervisors know which orders are stuck; the office finds out when a customer calls. Labour and machine time are too expensive to reconcile blindly at month-end.
Orders show status (queued, in progress, hold, complete) with reason codes for downtime — trusted enough for daily production meetings.
Digitise one product family or line before the whole plant — prove signal quality where volume is highest.
Fix unit of measure and BOM accuracy before MES dashboards — bad BOMs make any system lie confidently.
Follow today’s urgent order across stations — note every undocumented wait and rework.
Agree five downtime/scrap codes operators will actually use — start small.
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