APPS & COMPONENTS
KEY FEATURES OF 24FLOW
Discover the key features of 24Flow from production scheduling and order release to real-time team dashboards, digital checklists and document control. 24Flow combines modular apps into one connected platform, delivering fully traceable shop floor execution for make-to-order and engineer-to-order manufacturers.
24PLANNING
Resource Planning and Gantt Chart for Planners
24Planning is the visual planning tool for high-mix low-volume production supporting both production scheduling and shift planning. Production scheduling can be done either at the order level or for specific bottleneck operations.
For engineer-to-order manufacturing, 24Planning has a Gantt chart for project management.
Production scheduling for orders
✓ Automated backwards scheduling of operations based on order delivery date.
✓ Drag & drop interface for order planning adjustments, with automated backward and forward scheduling of operations.
✓ Real-time capacity calculation per team or machine.
✓ Real-time feedback from the shopfloor on order status.
✓ Visual indicators for late late orders.
✓ Configurable view of order details.
Production scheduling for bottleneck operations
✓ Optimize the scheduling for the bottleneck operation.
✓ Automatically plan bottleneck operations according to predefined criteria such as order priority or product family.
✓ Grouping of orders to minimize machine setup times.
✓ Manually adjust via drag & drop.
✓Real-time capacity calculation per team or machine.
Shift planning
✓ Assign people to workstations, machines and shifts.
✓ Manage absences or sick leaves.
✓ Automatically adjust team capacities.
✓ For engineer-to-order, shift planning can be used for scheduling onsite installations or interventions.
Gantt chart
✓ Manage projects with engineering, production, transportation & installation phases.
✓ Model hierarchies and dependencies between tasks and subtasks.
✓ Assign resources and monitor task completion rates.
✓ Assess the impact of shifting tasks on project deadlines.
ORDER POOL
Order Release Management for Planners
The order pool is the interface for planners to release orders to the shopfloor. Taking into account component availability and deadlines, the Order Pool prevents from having too much WIP on the shopfloor.
Sort orders according to delivery deadline or latest start date
✓ Get an immediate view of whether you’re running behind schedule and have an order pool backlog. Support WIP control.
✓ Divide orders in multiple Order Pools if appropriate.
Work with orders with subassemblies
✓ Release subassemblies together with the main order or separately.
Show component availability
✓ Check the components needed to complete the order as well as their current availability.
✓ The planner can still release orders, even when not all components are available.
TEAM COCKPIT
The Shopfloor Interface for Operators
Team Cockpit is the single interface for operators for access to contextual order details: the right information in the right place at the right time. Everything one click away.
24Flow’s Team Cockpit for a workstation has the following capabilities
✓ Work orders are ordered according to priority and due date.
✓ Visual indicators for priority orders & late orders.
✓ Show which operator is working on a specific order.
✓ Display ongoing, to-be-started and expected orders.
✓ Configurable action buttons.
✓ Quick access to technical drawings or digital work instruction.
✓ Registration of time spent, quantities produced, scrap & components consumed.
Depending on your specific context the Team Cockpit can be extended with
✓ Scanner integration for faster processing
✓ Quality checklists for in-process quality control
✓ SharePoint integration for document access
✓ Workload graph
✓ Andon component for flagging machine outages
✓ Incident reporting with categorization
✓ Storage location for WIP
✓ Optional rework flow with automated routing updates
Team leaders can use the info from the Team Cockpit to
✓ Have access to all Team Cockpits of team operators
✓ Last minute assignment of orders to a specific team
✓ Timesheets with detailed time registration per operator
✓ Centralized incident management overview, across orders
✓ Detailed access to all information logged on specific orders
✓ Manage competences of their team members
MANAGEMENT APP
All Information At Your Fingertips
24Flow gathers very granular information on the shopfloor that provides a wealth of information for real-time status follow-up, traceability as well as the basis for continuous improvement.
Production Order follow-up
✓ Kanban-view with order statuses
✓Detailed order overview including statuses of individual operations, time registrations, components used, quantities produced & checklists completed
MCT for lead-time analysis
✓ Manufacturing Critical Path Time (MCT) visually represents lead time.
✓ Details on touch time (processing time) and wait time (buffer time).
✓ For an individual order or for a group of orders.
Ad-hoc reporting
✓ No-code reporting and dashboarding module.
✓ Make your own custom reports & dashboard based on 24Flow collected data.
✓ Rich set of dashboard widgets (graphs, piecharts, gauges, …)
Workload dashboard
✓ Visualize anticipated Team Workloads in one centralized view.
✓Identify potential future bottlenecks.
24FLOW GOES THE EXTRA MILE
Extra Capabilities With Huge Impact
Beyond the essential product modules described above, 24Flow comes with a number of additional capabilities that are relevant depending on your context.
Customer portal
Extend the reach of 24Flow beyond the shopfloor
✓ Build a customer portal on top of 24Flow.
✓ Allow customers to access order statuses in real-time and decrease the load on your support teams.
The Mariasteen, FlandersMake, and 24Flow collaboration synchronized operations for all teams and third parties.
AI-based production scheduling
When your bottleneck operation requires sophisticated scheduling that requires optimization, 24Flow can be integrated with external AI-based scheduling solvers.
Mariasteen saved 150 minutes per day by automating their production with the AI-based scheduling platform.
Mould management
When scheduling production for extrusion-based processing, the availability of moulds is a crucial factor. 24Flow’s Team Cockpits can be used to manage the mould maintenance process and provide real-time information on mould availability to production planners.
Learn how Orac Decor uses 24Flow’s visual mould tracking to schedule efficiently and prevent production delays.
Floor map for AGV movements
24Flow has a floor map interface that allows sending commands to Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to request the movement of goods.
Learn how Altachem optimized material movement and reduced manual coordination by implementing automated AGV direction.
Gamification for change management
The Team Cockpit can be extended with a gamification component that provides operators with real-time and meaningful feedback on their actual performance. The concept allows the definition of challenges, levels and badges and has proven to increase productivity and operator engagement.
In the Atlas Copco case study, the Gamified Operator Experience ensures operators maintain full autonomy while the system incentivizes optimal decision-making.
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ABOUT US
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.