Articles, webinars and events
Manufacturing resources for make-to-order production
Learn why orders wait and what to change on the shop floor, from Quick Response Manufacturing to planning engineer-to-order projects.
QRM insights
Most of your lead time is waiting.
QRM shows you where it goes.
In make-to-order production, an order typically spends 95% of its lead time waiting and 5% being worked on. Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is the method that attacks the wait.
Test your thinking on lead time and capacity, one true-or-false statement at a time.
The core principles of QRM: time as the main measure, teams that own the flow and a view of the whole company.
Order release, visual planning and WIP limits put QRM to work on the shop floor every day.
Two Dutch-language episodes of the QRM 4.0 series: one with 24Flow’s co-founder, one with CGK Group.
Why QRM starts at quoting and order intake, not only on the shop floor.
Rising costs, custom orders and supply shocks: short lead times help you absorb the next disruption.
Why short lead times are what make custom products pay off.
Lean removes the variability you do not need. QRM handles the variability your customers ask for.
Articles
Practical reads on planning, flow and ERP.
Written for the people who run production.
Each article takes one problem from make-to-order production and shows what to do about it.
Manufacturing Critical-Path Time counts every hour an order waits, so you see where lead time really goes.
Shifting priorities, too many orders released and hidden bottlenecks: three causes of waiting and the first steps against each.
Fix the shop floor first: it pays back sooner and makes the later ERP migration easier.
Track phases, dependencies and owners next to production, and see early when a project deadline slips.
Connect CAD or PLM to 24Flow, so bills of materials and labor can change per project without losing control.
The five lean principles in plain words, from customer value to continuous improvement.
MCT analysis, a Gantt chart for ETO projects and new Team Cockpit actions. One of 3 releases per year.
How Altachem, a Factory of the Future, digitized production with 24Flow.
Why ERP-based planning kept failing in make-to-order plants, and how self-steering teams became the design principle.
New funding to grow the product and sales teams and to build implementation partners across Europe.
Webinars and events
Questions about flow?
Ask them live.
Join a webinar, watch a recording or meet our team at a trade fair.
Watch past sessions, such as “Why time is the new currency of manufacturing”.
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