Planning and routing
Run every job on one board
See each machine and stage live, so nothing stalls without you knowing.
What this costs while it stays invisible.
- Parts of one job run out of step, so assembly sits idle waiting.
- The plan lives on a whiteboard and gets wiped each night. Nobody knows why dates slipped.
- Parts sent out for lamination or coating vanish until they come back late.
- Machines get loaded by habit or by who shouts loudest, not by due dates.
- Sales cannot promise a date without walking the floor to find the job card.
What changes when the floor can be trusted.
- Each sales order splits into work orders, each with its own material and machine lane.
- Machine steps come straight from the bill of materials. No re-typing.
- Outside vendors show up as stages, with dispatch, time out and receipt checks.
- A live board shows plant load, bottlenecks and rush jobs.
- One screen holds routing, material, output, scrap and dispatch for the whole job.
How it works
Step by step on the floor.
- 1Confirm a sales order and the work orders are created
- 2Machine steps and material come from the spec
- 3Supervisors assign each stage to a machine or vendor
- 4Floor scans move each part toward assembly
Inside the Software
Real application screens. Not concept mockups.
Here is the actual interface your machine minders and plant leadership interact with every day, captured directly from running production setups.
Every work order across stages like binding, folding, plate making and trimming. Machines and outside vendors on one grid.
- Live farma counts with good and scrap output
- Clear OUTSOURCED tags for vendor work
- Urgent jobs stay at the top
Active, queued and finished jobs with customer, spec, due date and live stage.
- See each part of a job: text block, cover, assembly
- Priority tags for rush reprints
- Click through to routing and material
Keep exploring
Works with
Questions you should ask before buying any system.
Can we route jobs that need only some of our normal stages?
Yes. Each order follows its own steps. A rush reprint that needs only printing and packing skips the rest, so no empty tasks clog your queues.
How is work tracked when sent to outside finishing vendors?
Outside work is a normal stage. Prodman records the gate-pass quantity, tracks time out and asks for a quality check on return. It stays in your WIP the whole time.
How does the system keep the parts of one order in step?
It tracks each part under the main job. If the text block is ahead and the cover is stuck at foil stamping, you get a warning days before binding.
You should not need to spend your life walking the floor to discover the truth.
Bring us one problematic production order, one chronic bottleneck, or one metric nobody trusts. In thirty minutes, we will show you how Prodman restores order and calm, without asking your machine operators to become clerical typists.
Limited on-site implementations each quarter · Configured by hand