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Articles on production planning for make-to-order manufacturers
One problem per article, from orders that wait to ERP upgrades, and what to change on your shop floor.
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you have today.
Lead time and flow first, then ERP and engineer-to-order planning, then lean basics and news from 24Flow.
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.
Five signals your plan has outgrown the spreadsheet, and what changes when you plan on real capacity.
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.
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