Jobshop & Custom Production

Jobshop and custom production environments are defined by extreme variability: changing routings, urgent priorities, limited skilled resources, and daily constraint shifts. factory.online helps jobshops deliver on time, improve profitability, and scale output by optimizing schedules and enforcing execution discipline with trusted feedback.

Specific challenges in jobshops:

• High-mix, low-volume complexity: unique routings and frequent engineering changes.
• Constant priority changes: expediting breaks plans; promised dates become unreliable.
• Setup family constraints: sequence-dependent setups, tooling limits, and changeover penalties.
• Skill-based dispatching: few key operators become hidden bottlenecks.
• Material readiness: missing components create stop-start production.
• WIP explosion: too many open orders create long queues and slow flow.
• Quoting vs capacity reality: delivery promises not aligned with real constraints.
• Subcontract operations: external steps add uncertainty and hidden lead time.
• Manual scheduling: spreadsheets cannot optimize under real constraints.

What factory.online delivers:

• Every quote is a guess → quoting on real routings and standard costs, then compared with actual cost after the job to fix the next estimate.
• Urgent orders wreck the whole schedule → APS reschedules in minutes and shows the delivery impact of every priority change before you accept it.
• Skilled operators are the real constraint → work centres, shifts and skill levels are planned as finite resources, not as unlimited capacity.
• Customers call to ask where their order is → real-time order progress per operation, visible to sales without walking to the shop floor.
• Overtime and expediting quietly kill profit → actual costing per job exposes rework, waiting and overtime so you can price or eliminate them.