Production scheduling software for fab shops
The whole week on one screen: every job, on the person or machine doing it. See who is actually free before you promise a date, and move a job in seconds when the material turns up late. Built for custom fabrication shops by people who ran one.
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Want to pick a time instead? Book a demoThe schedule is a whiteboard, and by Tuesday it is wrong.
Monday morning you write the week up. Then a delivery is late, someone calls in sick, and a customer wants their job Thursday instead of Friday. The board does not know any of that. So the real schedule goes back to living in your head, and the crew comes and asks you.
Jobs, leave and machine downtime, all in one place.
Every job you have won sits on the person or the machine doing it, for the days it needs. So does everything that is not a job. If it takes time out of the week it goes on the board, so you are not planning around a day off or a machine service you cannot see.
Fit more work through the week without burying anyone.
Three jobs on the install crew and they are over their hours before the week starts. One of your machines has 28 hours spare, and nobody accounted for it when the work was handed out. The board shows the hours each person, team and machine already has on them, so you can see who has room before you hand out the next job, and where it fits.
Open the entry and the whole job is there, down to the line items.
What sits on the week is not a note about the job. It is the job. Open it and you have the order, every line you quoted, the drawings, the notes and the photos, without going to find the folder.
Your labels, your colors, your view of the week.
No two shops read a week the same way. So every entry carries your labels, your colors and the people on it, and each person can open a view with only the work they need on it.
You scheduled 62 hours. It took 71, and you can see what those nine cost you.
The crew clock on to the job, not just to the day, so the hours land against it while it is still on the floor. Profitability then puts what you estimated next to what the job actually cost, so the nine hours you did not plan for become a number you can schedule and price the next job on.
The same job, from the quote that won it to the invoice that closed it.
Nothing gets typed in twice. The job you schedule is the same one the floor builds, the crew clock on to, and you invoice at the end.
The Planner is the week ahead. The board is what is happening today.
Same jobs, two screens. Here you decide who is on what and which day. Once the week is set, the board is where you watch it happen and find out a job is running late while there is still something you can do about it.
See shop floor managementWhat other fab shops say about us.
"Factory allows me to create a work order, generate invoices, schedule deliveries, manage contacts, and notify customers all in one place."
"My husband, who is not technical at all, can actually jump in and do his own invoices - and now raves about it to all his mates."
"The list of things I love about Factory is long. It's helped us exponentially in our business."
"We've used it for a few years at my other business and found it seamless."
We were in the same position you are.
We ran our own custom fab shop, and every tool out there was an enterprise ERP built for the big 5%, or made by people who never worked in the industry. Nothing fit shops like ours. So we built it ourselves - not just for our shop, but for every custom fab shop that's outgrown the spreadsheet but has no business buying an ERP.
"You're buying from a family that ran a fab shop for almost 50 years - and built the software it always needed."
ML Michael · ran our fab shop for 20+ yrs
A dedicated team gets you live, and stays until it's working.
Real people who've set up hundreds of fab shops. The heavy lifting is on us: we migrate your customers, suppliers, products and pricing, and build out your kits and BOMs, not dump it on your already busy crew.
You explore the platform while we import your customers, suppliers, products and pricing - and agree on the first problems it has to solve for you.
Kits and BOMs built for you, then each person trained on what matters to their role - no one-size-fits-all.
Quotes with clear profitability, job statuses tracked, time on jobs, your accounting integrated and invoices getting paid.
No surprise bills, no being left on your own. We stay with you well past go-live.
The full story, session by session: how we get a shop set up.
Keep the books you already keep.
No switching, no double entry. Connect the accounting package you already run and let quotes, invoices, and payments flow straight through.
Need something of your own? Build it.
Our API is open, so your team can connect Factory to the other tools your shop runs on.
Questions shops ask about production scheduling software
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Your week changes every day. Moving a job should take seconds.
Your people, your teams and your machines on one week, with the whole job sitting on every entry. Material late, someone off sick - move it and carry on. We will set it up with your own week and your own hours.
ONE JOB · #1042 Skyline Steel runs the Planner, the order detail, the kiosk and the hours card. 62 h scheduled, 71 h actual, $13,180.00 over five lines.
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