Your shop floor is running. Where is the part, right now?

ROBIN.Tracking locates WIP via sensors, with no operator input. Every part, bin, or carrier appears on the shop floor plan, along with the time spent at its current position. Shop floor declarations complement progress tracking.

No, that is the whole point. Location is automatic and progress comes from the declarations that already exist in your tools: no extra form, neither during nor at the end of a shift. The shop-floor screen shows the work queue: what needs doing, in what order, with which tooling. The operator reads it, they do not fill in a spreadsheet.

The downtime is declared, the engine recalculates the schedule around the constraint and proposes a new sequence in about two minutes. Operations that put a customer milestone at risk are flagged, with the quantified impact.

It is our design priority. The interface is built for the shop floor: a workshop map, a work queue, alerts. An operator or team leader sees at a glance what to do, in what order, and where each part is. Getting started takes a few hours, training included, and there is no per-user cost, so the whole shop floor has access. Moving away from Excel becomes an immediate time saver, not a burden.

From signature to go-live, allow less than three months in most cases, support included, where heavyweight APSAPSAdvanced Planning & SchedulingAdvanced planning and scheduling software that calculates an optimised sequence under constraints (capacity, skills, materials). The software category to which ROBIN belongs.See in the glossary → projects take 16 to 24 months. A demonstration on your own data can be set up in a few days.

You then start on a critical scope (a workshop, a line, a resource) and extend at your teams' pace. Most of the work goes into structuring routings and resources, not into configuring the software. The timeline is split into phases, with milestones and success criteria defined at the outset.

It depends on what your MESMESManufacturing Execution SystemManufacturing execution system: work order tracking at the workstation, reporting, real-time traceability. Sits between the ERPERPEnterprise Resource PlanningIntegrated management software (SAP, Sage X3, Oracle…). It handles orders, stock, bills of materials, and work orders, but schedules by the week, not by the hour.See in the glossary → and the machine.See in the glossary → covers. ROBIN can connect to your existing MES, or take over work order management if you don't have one: releasing and tracking work orders, progress reporting by operators, time spent and operation traceabilityTraceabilityAbility to reconstruct the complete history of a part: who, when, where, with what, and under which control.See in the glossary →. Plus dynamic finite-capacity schedulingSchedulingDetermination of the order and timing of each operation on each resource, subject to capacity, skills, and deadline constraints.See in the glossary → and real-time location of WIP.