Production scheduling software for fab shops
Right now the schedule lives on a whiteboard in the corner - move a job and you update the board, then call the guy to say it moved. Factory puts the schedule where the jobs already are: drag the job onto the person and the day, and the whole shop sees the same plan.
It works until it doesn't, and then it costs you
The board in the corner only exists in the shop, and it goes stale the moment a job moves. Same leaks, every week.
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How scheduling works in Factory
The schedule sits on top of the same orders you quoted - no re-entering jobs, no second list. Step through it.
Every leak, closed by something you can see
Monday's plan, Thursday's run, no board to keep alive
Monday morning, you drag the week's confirmed orders onto your three fabricators. Two land on the same person Tuesday, so you slide one to Wednesday; the big weldment needs two days, so you stretch its block across both.
Thursday's deliveries: you drag six orders from the backlog onto two trucks, grouped by side of town, print a run sheet for each, and hand them over. As the day goes, the drivers' jobs get marked Delivered and drop off the run - and the board never goes stale, because there is no board.
You outgrew the whiteboard. You're not standing up an MRP to run three fabricators.
Factory is right-sized: it shows you the whole week on one screen, tied to the actual jobs, so nothing falls through - and it's part of the same system you quote, run, and invoice in. Up in weeks not months, and your team actually uses it because it works the way a shop already thinks about the week.
"In just 6 weeks we completely moved from paper-based jobs to digital."
"Able to manage jobs better and helping work out our margins on each."
Questions shops ask before they switch
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Bring next week's jobs.
We'll drop them onto your crew and your trucks in Factory and print a run sheet - so you can see your whole week on one screen before you commit to anything.