Manufacturing & Operations Systems
Office-to-Floor Visibility for Production, Dispatch, and Maintenance
Practical tracking systems for WIP, batches, dispatch, maintenance, quality, and incidents, built for the way a production floor actually runs.
The Problem
Production information should not live in five different places.
Spreadsheets, whiteboards, group chats, and memory are not a system. When a job moves from drawing to fabrication to coating to dispatch, everyone involved should be able to see where it is, without chasing five people for an answer.
Systems I Build
Visibility across the floor
- WIP and production tracking
- Dispatch visibility
- Batch and mini-batch tracking
- Maintenance and breakdown action tracking
- Quality holds, NCRs, and corrective actions
- Coating queue and bottleneck visibility
Microsoft Lists, Excel, SharePoint, Power Automate, and AI-assisted daily summaries, layered onto tools your team may already have.
Workflow Examples
Systems like this
Office-to-Floor Production Tracker
Follows jobs from drawing through production, coating, fitout, and dispatch, so nothing gets tracked from memory alone.
Powder Coating Bottleneck Visibility
A coating queue tracker with stage status, priority flags, quality hold points, and dispatch requirement dates.
Maintenance and Breakdown Tracker
Priority, machine, owner, due date, and photo evidence, so maintenance issues stop getting reported verbally and forgotten.
Common Starter Systems
Where most businesses begin
Production Visibility Board
Track where each job is: drawing, cutting, fabrication, coating, fitout, dispatch, hold, or complete.
Coating Queue Tracker
Prioritise coating work by job status, due date, quality hold, and dispatch requirement.
Maintenance Action Register
Capture machine issues, assign owners, track due dates, attach evidence, and close out repairs.
Drawing Revision Register
Control drawing versions, approvals, superseded files, and job references.
Dispatch Readiness Tracker
Show what is ready, what is short, what is damaged, and what needs escalation before delivery.
Map your production tracking problem.
WIP, dispatch, batches, maintenance, coating queues - describe what you cannot currently see, and I will quote a practical tracking system for it.
Talk Through Your Tracking Problem