Mariasteen

Mariasteen: AI production scheduling across 100 work centers

How Mariasteen and Flanders Make use AI scheduling in 24Flow to plan 100 work centers, with less replanning and clear priorities for every team.

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Goal

100 work centers.
One plan that keeps up.

The result: faster decisions, less replanning and a steadier flow on the shop floor.

What Mariasteen wanted

Mariasteen, one of Flanders’ largest social enterprises, runs metalworking and assembly for industrial customers. It chose 24Flow for AI scheduling and real-time visibility. The goal: less replanning, better use of people and work centers, and clear information for team leaders and operators across 100 work centers.

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About Mariasteen

Founded in 1963, Mariasteen is a production company working in metal and assembly, wood, green services, painting and facility services. As part of Groep Gidts, it creates jobs for people with disabilities and works for industrial and public organizations across Flanders.

With over 1,000 employees and sites in Hooglede-Gits, Roeselare and Tielt, Mariasteen covers the whole chain: research and development, production, logistics and on-site support. Economic impact and social responsibility go together.

Challenges

Shifting priorities.
A plan rebuilt by hand.

Before 24Flow, planning at Mariasteen ran into these problems:

01

Complex scheduling

Thousands of unique products and shifting order priorities made the daily plan hard to build.

02

Scattered data

Production information sat in several systems and spreadsheets.

03

Reactive planning

Rush orders broke the schedule and forced constant replanning.

04

Limited visibility

Team leaders had no real-time view of work in progress and capacity.

05

Slow onboarding

With so many different products, new operators needed a long time to learn the work.

Solution

AI builds the schedule.
Teams see what comes next.

Mariasteen chose 24Flow with AI scheduling, built on Salesforce and connected to SAP. Mariasteen runs its own Syntegro system for workforce data alongside 24Flow.

AI scheduling

24Flow assigns people and work centers to production orders based on priorities, constraints and availability, across 100 work centers.

Order release

Releasing orders is digital. Priorities move with the plan, with far less replanning by hand.

Digital work instructions

Operators get clear instructions at the right step, for better quality and less downtime.

Real-time monitoring

Team leaders see progress and bottlenecks as they happen and adjust before problems grow.

One data layer

Production data and SAP data come together in one place, for better planning and continuous improvement.

Impact

Hours of planning
became minutes.

Together, Mariasteen, Flanders Make and 24Flow turned scheduling from a manual, reactive job into digital, AI-supported flow control.
150
min

saved per day at Mariasteen

Planning went from 3 hours to 30 minutes, so team leaders spend their time solving problems and improving the process.

€200,000

Saved per year: from better planning, better use of people and work centers, and fewer delays.

Better use of work centers

Faster reaction when priorities change.

Visibility

Real-time insight into the flow, so bottlenecks are handled before they grow.

Calmer teams

Operators and team leaders work with more clarity, less stress and more engagement.

In their own words

“Planning went from 3 hours to 30 minutes. Now we can focus on solving real problems.”

Thomas Van Landeghem, Operations Manager, Mariasteen

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