Promise dates the shop floor can actually hit

What this module does

A planner promises a customer a date that the work centres cannot actually hit. The conversation happens because the planner reads a planning sheet from Wednesday, the shop floor is on Friday's actual output, and the gap between them is a week of overtime the company is about to pay for. With a live picture of what is queued, what is running, and what each work centre can take, the planner sees the overload three weeks out, moves one project's start, and books the customer a date the shop can hit on first try.

Key pages

Production carries an order from planning through finished output. Each operation has a single page showing instructions, components, attached documents, messages, reports, and its own activity log; one button drives it through planned, in-progress, and finished, with every pause and transition stamped. An operator sees only the operations that are ready to start (predecessor finished, not on hold), so the question “what do I do next” answers itself from the screen. Planners read the work-centre load week by week, watch which centres are at risk before the week arrives, and reschedule when there is still room to move. Project Managers read progress per resource and a trace list that ties every posted operation back to its production order.

Operators stop walking to a board to find their next job. The planner ends a stand-up by pointing at the queue and saying “this is what is starting today, this is what we are short on.” When a customer asks “where is my order,” the answer comes from the same screen the operator is working from, not from someone's memory of yesterday's stand-up. And when the shop is one operator down for a week, the load view shows what slips by how much, so the conversation with the customer happens early instead of late.