Production planning that keeps up with the factory floor.
Your schedule, connected to live MES/OEE data. See what's running, what's slipping and what it's costing, while there's still time to act. And for once, planning, ops and finance are all looking at the same numbers.
Works alongside your existing MES, OEE and ERP.
FactoryPlan's Demo Factory· today’s production
Production schedule
Plan vs live · by linePlan adherence
58%
7 of 12 orders on plan or ahead
Shift target 95%
Cost variance (today)
Standard cost
£100,395
Live estimated
£104,900
Variance +£4,505 (+4.5%) against standard, driven by downtime and overrun.
Orders needing attention
4- Behind
FP-1042 · Chicken Soup 400g
Greenfield Retail · est. finish 22:40
- Stopped
FP-1048 · Lasagne Ready Meal 400g
Marshall & Co · est. finish 12:00
- At risk
FP-1052 · Pasta Sauce 500g
Harbour Foods · est. finish 19:20
- At risk
FP-1085 · Chicken Soup 400g
Greenfield Retail · est. finish 05:10
AI-assisted replanning
SuggestedLine 2 is stopped (filler fault, 52 min and counting). Order FP-1048 is forecast to finish 3h 20m late, putting the Marshall & Co chilled order at risk.
- Move FP-1048 to Line 4 after the current run (FP-1071 finishing ~11:50).
- Extend Line 1 by 45 minutes to recover the priority FP-1042 order.
- Hold FP-1052 and re-sequence behind the moved order.
Protects the chilled dispatch for Marshall & Co due tomorrow morning.
Suggestion only. Your planner stays in control.
Illustrative interface with sample data.
The plan and the factory floor drift apart
Plans are made in one place and production happens in another. By the time the gap is visible, the options for fixing it have usually run out.
Plans live in spreadsheets and go out of date fast
The plan changes, the line changes, and suddenly nobody is completely sure which version is right.
Planners cannot see schedule drift early enough
Orders slip quietly until the delay is too big to absorb without overtime, reshuffling or missed service.
OEE explains the loss, but not the recovery plan
The data explains the loss after the fact, but the forward schedule never gets adjusted.
Downtime doesn't feed planning decisions
A stoppage on one line can put tomorrow’s customer orders at risk before anyone has joined the dots.
Costing hides the painful runs
Standard costs and weekly averages can mask the orders, products and lines that quietly damage margin.
Operations, planning and finance work from different numbers
Planning, operations and finance each see part of the truth, but not one shared version of what is happening.
Why FactoryPlan.app
Keep your production schedule aligned with live factory performance
Built to keep production plans aligned with what is actually happening on the factory floor.
Plan with live reality
Connect your production schedule to live shop-floor performance, so planners work from what is actually happening, not yesterday’s assumptions.
React before the plan breaks
See overruns, downtime and schedule drift while there is still time to act, not after the shift has already gone off plan.
Understand the true cost of production
Bring together performance, labour, downtime and waste cost, then compare actual production cost against standard.
Replan with better options
AI-assisted replanning suggestions that stay under your control. Your team decides what changes.
Connect the systems you already use
Sit FactoryPlan.app on top of your existing MES/OEE tools, production plans and reporting data, without replacing what already works.
What's inside
One planning layer between your schedule, factory data and cost reality
Start with live scheduling, live MES/OEE feedback, plan-vs-actual tracking, costing and reporting. Then build towards AI-assisted replanning, capacity planning and S&OP from the same connected planning layer.
Live production schedule
LiveA visual production plan by line, shift, product, order and customer, with planned and actual timings side by side.
Learn moreMES/OEE integration
LivePull live performance feedback from your MES/OEE system and connect it directly to the production plan.
Learn morePlan vs actual tracking
LiveCompare planned output, actual output and expected completion so you can see which orders are drifting from plan.
Learn moreAdvanced production costing
LiveEstimate true cost-to-produce using live performance, labour, downtime and waste, then compare actual cost against standard.
Learn moreDetailed labour capture and reporting
LiveCapture direct and indirect labour by shift, line and order, cost it at real shift rates, and compare costed against planned and standard, so you finally see what production labour truly costs.
Learn moreAdvanced reporting
LiveAutomated production, plan-adherence, cost-to-produce and downtime-impact reports at shift, line, product and order level.
Learn moreProduction routings and planning master data
LiveThe products, routings, run rates, lines, shifts and cost standards the schedule and costing run on, held in one place and built from the records you already have.
Learn moreSingle source of truth
LiveBring planning, live performance and cost reporting into one shared view, so teams spend less time arguing over numbers and more time deciding what to do.
Learn moreMulti-device support
LiveOne live plan that works wherever the work happens: planners on the desktop, supervisors on shop-floor tablets, managers on a phone, all reading the same data.
Learn moreAI-assisted replanning
Early pre-releaseWhen production falls behind, FactoryPlan.app will suggest practical schedule changes for your team to review, adjust and approve. Your team stays in control.
Learn moreAdaptive planning rules
Early pre-releaseTurn planner feedback into reusable scheduling logic, so the system learns which changes matter, which rules carry weight and how your team prefers to recover the plan.
Learn moreLoss-risk alerts at planning
RoadmapFlag planned orders that are likely to run at a loss before they reach the line. FactoryPlan.app will compare each order's standard cost against what it is realistically going to cost, using overtime premiums, achievable run rates and the line's real OEE history.
Learn moreSee how live factory feedback changes the plan
Explore a simplified version of FactoryPlan.app in your browser, using realistic production data. See how live performance, schedule drift and cost impact come together in one planning view — no login or setup required.
Integrations
Connect the systems you already use
FactoryPlan.app sits on top of your MES/OEE platform, pulling live line status, downtime, output, speed and OEE data into the production plan. You keep the systems that already work and FactoryPlan.app turns their feedback into planning, costing and reporting decisions.
Your MES/OEE system
Live line status · downtime · output · OEE
FactoryPlan.app
Planning · tracking · costing
Built around an integration-neutral layer, so new MES/OEE platforms can be added without changing how your team plans, tracks and reports.
Implementation
Moving beyond Excel should not take a year
The reason planners stay on old spreadsheets is not because they love them. It is because replacing them usually means months of data cleansing, modelling and consultancy. FactoryPlan.app starts from the production history you already have, maps your columns with AI, flags the gaps, and lets your team maintain the model in plain English.
| Usual way | FactoryPlan.app | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the data in | Weeks or months of master-data clean up | Upload existing spreadsheets as they are; AI converts it to an import template for your approval |
| Building the model | Configured from scratch in expensive workshops | Built from your real production history |
| Run rates & capacities | Estimated, inherited or chased manually | Calculated from what the factory actually ran |
Ready to connect your plan to live production?
Book a demo and we will show you FactoryPlan.app with your kind of production in mind.