Production Control

For Industrial Products

For those with discrete manufacturing processes, Foxfire Production Control software provides real-time operational feedback and control over manufacturing lines and resources. With Foxfire Production Control, supervisors can assign employees, materials, and machinery so that demanding production schedules are met, while at the same time, focusing on production efficiency and costs.

Foxfire Production Control for industrial products is a full function shop floor / manufacturing execution system. The software solution accepts shop orders with routing and raw-material product requirements from a host system (e.g. PRISM) and tracks Work-In-Process (WIP) for inventory and quality control purposes. Unique features of this product include machine work center scheduling, machine capacity reporting and schedule compliance, production yield and scrap reporting, machine downtime reporting, and standard and/or actual material usage. This product interfaces with Foxfire's WMS for seamless flow of information between the manufacturing floor and the warehouse, but can also be used as a standalone system.

• Repair job costing with actual repair time, parts used in repair, & misc. consumables usage
• Repair history by customer, SKU, product, and technician
• Repair backlog by store, department, & by repair operations
• Tracking, control, reporting, and audit trail of service orders and production
• Real-time tracking of repairs and warranties, with technician clock-on/off service orders
• Tracking and control of product serial numbers
• Machine work center scheduling, including machine capacity, monitoring, schedule compliance, and downtime reporting
• Production yield, scrap reporting, and comparative production history
• Lot tracking from raw materials to WIP inventory management to finished product

Customers using Foxfire Production Control see considerable improvement in space utilization, productivity, service repair order turnaround, and inventory accuracy (99%+). Also seen is a significant reduction in order fulfillment time.

Key Benefits

Depending on the client's manufacturing environment, customers typically report paybacks of less than six months based upon "hard" tangible cost savings. Customers frequently report cost savings and productivity improvements of 10-15% including the following:

• No hoarding of production bundle tickets
• Reduced opportunity for payroll gamesmanship e.g., off-standard against on-standard
• No line at the end-of-shift, so everyone can be first out the door
• No walking to time clock to go off-standard or on-standard
• Elimination of coupons and associated handling and clerical processing
• Improved planning and enforced production schedule compliance
• No lost coupons or duplicate payment of coupons
• No payroll office scanning or data entry functions
• Decreased supervisory paperwork and correspondingly increased floor supervision
• Real-time management information (performance, earnings, excess costs, backlog, etc) for corrective actions during the shift
• Real time attendance displays to identify absent employees and enable reassignment of employees to balance workflow
• Immediate efficiency and earnings information for each employee (positive motivational feedback)
• Real-time backlog analysis by operation (by cut, department or plant) to enable workflow balancing
• Real time inspection data collection and analysis to identify and to quickly correct quality issues
• Online or printed transaction log on each operator for any past period

For more information about Foxfire Production Control for Industrial Products, please call 1.864.868.5243 or contact us.