Streamlining Production with a Digital Operations Platform
Discover how ORAC modernized its production processes with 24Flow’s integrated shopfloor control and production scheduling platform — boosting efficiency, visibility, and delivery reliability across its manufacturing workflow.
Since more than 50 years, ORAC is a pioneer in high-quality interior decoration elements, designing innovative skirting boards, wall moldings, cornice mouldings, and decorative wall products.
With growing product complexity and increasing production volume, ORAC needed a more connected and scalable way to manage planning, maintenance, and shop-floor execution.
The result: a fully digitized operation with improved efficiency, accurate data, and consistent delivery performance.
About ORAC
ORAC is a Belgian family-owned manufacturer known for its premium architectural and decorative wall elements. With an extensive product portfolio and growing customer expectations, ORAC operates at the intersection of craftsmanship, design, and modern manufacturing.
As production expanded across multiple lines and sites, the company sought a digital shopfloor control and production scheduling platform that could unify data, integrate with SAP, and reduce the dependency on manual, paper-based workflows.
Challenges
Before implementing 24Flow, ORAC faced several operational challenges common to high-mix manufacturing:
Paper-based workflows
Operators relied on printed production orders, manual notes, and Excel files, creating inefficiencies and errors.
Fragmented data
Critical production information lived in multiple spreadsheets and disconnected systems, limiting opportunities for analysis and improvement.
No real-time visibility
Without shop-floor insights, planners had limited control over bottlenecks, capacity, and mold availability.
Limited integration with SAP
The planning process sat outside the ERP backbone, making coordination difficult and delaying updates.
Lengthened lead times
Manual data entry and reactive problem-solving slowed down production and affected delivery reliability.
Solutions
To support its digital transformation, ORAC implemented 24Flow’s integrated digital operations platform, fully connected with its SAP environment.
- 24Planning app – Seamlessly integrated with SAP, planners can create and adjust schedules using drag-and-drop functionality. Machine and mold constraints are automatically considered to optimize flow.
- Team Cockpit – production order – Operators digitally record yield, scrap, and start/stop times directly at their workstation. This eliminates manual entry, ensures data accuracy, and updates SAP in real time.
- Team Cockpit – mold maintenance – Provides a centralized and visual overview of mould status and maintenance needs, enabling planners to schedule efficiently and reduce downtime.
- Paperless shop floor – Real-time dashboards replace printouts, ensuring operators and supervisors see live priorities and progress.
- Co-creation approach – 24Flow mapped ORAC’s workflows, collaborated closely with operations teams, and tailored the platform to ORAC’s specific needs.
Impact
By adopting 24Flow’s shopfloor control and production scheduling platform, ORAC unlocked measurable improvements across planning, execution, and maintenance.
- Improved operational efficiency – Automated data flow and reduced administrative workload allow planners and operators to focus on value-added activities.
- Enhanced visibility – Real-time dashboards highlight progress, bottlenecks, and resource availability, enabling proactive planning and shorter lead times.
- Greater delivery reliability – Integration with SAP ensures seamless coordination between planning and production, resulting in more predictable delivery performance.
- Cost savings – Digital insights help ORAC identify scrap sources, reduce rework, and improve product quality, delivering tangible financial benefits.
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24Flow is a modular manufacturing platform that empowers make-to-order manufacturers to reduce lead times and increase visibility & traceability. Inspired by lean and QRM, 24Flow controls the flow of production orders which increases visibility and results in shorter lead times, improved delivery reliability and a reduction of work-in-progress and inventory.
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