Engineering, in one matrix.
Lay out the plant on a canvas, sequence every workstation per assembly, and embed the work instructions, scan rules, and target cycle times right at the step. The floor runs the line you designed. Without re-typing.
Drag your plant onto a canvas
Drop plants, production lines, and workstations onto a canvas the way they exist on your floor. Pin assemblies and sub-assemblies. Caliper sub-assembly here, dash harness there. To the workstations that build them. The canvas you design becomes the live supervisor floor; one source of truth across engineering and ops.
- Plants, lines, and workstations on one visual canvas
- Pin assemblies to the stations that actually build them
- The same canvas drives the live supervisor floor. No second layout to maintain
- Unlimited plants, lines, and workstations on every plan
Sequence every station, per assembly
Engineering opens the workbench, picks a workstation and an assembly, and lays out the build sequence. Scan-required fasteners, optional step ordering, target cycle from a reusable time-study library, and the visual work instruction attached at the step. The kiosk renders exactly that on the operator's tablet.
- Sequence build steps per workstation × per assembly
- Attach visual work instructions at the step level
- Apply target cycle from a reusable predetermined-time-study library
- Toggle scan-required parts and enforced step ordering per task
| STN-01 | STN-02 | STN-03 | STN-04 | STN-05 | STN-06 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caliper Sub-Asm | 1:20 scanWI | 2:45 WI | 0:55 scan | , | , | , |
| Brake Corner | , | , | 3:10 scanWI | 4:50 scanWI | 2:05 | , |
| Pack Out | , | , | , | , | 1:35 scanWI | 0:45 |
A bill of materials your floor actually consumes
Define the assembly tree once. Top-level vehicle, sub-assemblies (caliper, harness, subframe), down to the consumable fasteners. And every workstation that builds part of it inherits its slice. The same BOM the kiosk consumes at build time is the BOM engineering edits, so there is no "engineering BOM vs. shop-floor BOM" drift.
- Nested assembly tree with unlimited depth
- Sub-parts share a unified parts library across products
- Quantities, attached visual WIs, and target cycles inherit down the tree
- One BOM. Engineering, supply chain, and the kiosk all read the same row
Schedule the line in drag-and-drop minutes
Create a work order against a line, "Build 50 brake caliper sub-assemblies for the JV-7 program by Friday". Pick scanned or auto-generated serials, and queue it. Supervisors drag rows on the floor view to re-prioritise; the new order propagates everywhere. Orders queue, kiosk pickup screen, KPI rollups.
- Per-line work orders with planned quantity, due date, and scan/serial strategy
- Drag-to-reorder queue from the supervisor floor or the orders tab. Same field
- Auto-generated or scanned serials, per order
- Order roll-up: planned vs. completed at a glance
- Finite line scheduling — capacity per shift is derived from your MTM time-study seconds, not hand-typed runtimes. Forward-schedules every order against the shift calendar; locked orders pin, late orders flag, drag to override
- Sparky proposes a sequence with a rationale ("PO-114 first to clear Thursday's deadline; group P-300 to skip a 40-min changeover"); the math is always ours, the suggestion is always explainable
Frequently asked questions
What is a visual facility builder?
It is a drag-and-drop canvas where you lay out plants, production lines, and workstations the way they physically sit on your floor. Each station is then pinned to the assemblies it builds, so the routing a product follows is something you draw once rather than describe in a spreadsheet.
How do work instructions get attached to a station?
In the engineering workbench you sequence the build steps for an assembly, then embed the published work instruction, scan rules, and target cycle time at the step where the operator needs them. The tablet at that station renders the current revision automatically.
Do I have to model my whole plant before I can build anything?
No. Most shops start with one line and a handful of stations, run real builds through it, and add the rest as they go. Nothing downstream requires a complete plant model to work.
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