Roadmap

What's live today, and what's coming next

FactoryPlan.app is an early-access product. The core planning, feedback, costing and reporting layer is in use now, and we are building the rest in the open with the manufacturers we work with. Here is where things stand.

Available now

In use today

These capabilities are live and running against real production data with our early-access manufacturers.

Live production schedule

Live

A visual production plan by line, shift, product, order and customer, with planned and actual timings side by side.

  • Planned start and finish against actual start and live estimated finish.
  • Live status on every order: on plan, ahead, behind, stopped, changeover or at risk.
  • Order management, amends, cancellations and moves between lines.
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MES/OEE integration

Live

Pull live performance feedback from your MES/OEE system and connect it directly to the production plan.

  • Uses live line status, downtime, output, speed and OEE data.
  • An integration-neutral adapter, built to support further MES/OEE platforms.
  • Live feedback drives the schedule, the reports and the cost view.
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Plan vs actual tracking

Live

Compare planned output, actual output and expected completion so you can see which orders are drifting from plan.

  • Highlight the lines, orders and shifts that are off track.
  • Show the impact of downtime and speed loss on customer orders.
  • Surface delivery commitments that are starting to look at risk.
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Advanced production costing

Live

Estimate true cost-to-produce using live performance, labour, downtime and waste, then compare actual cost against standard.

  • Includes labour, overheads, downtime, waste, changeovers and line efficiency.
  • Standard cost versus live estimated actual cost, order by order.
  • Highlights which orders, products or lines are eroding margin.
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Detailed labour capture and reporting

Live

Capture 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.

  • Direct and indirect labour captured by shift and line, costed at real rates including night and overtime premiums.
  • Costed vs planned vs actual labour, order by order, feeding straight into margin-risk flags.
  • Headcount and crewing by shift feed both capacity planning and true cost to produce.
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Advanced reporting

Live

Automated production, plan-adherence, cost-to-produce and downtime-impact reports at shift, line, product and order level.

  • Plan adherence, downtime impact, cost variance and shift performance.
  • Shift, line, product and order-level breakdowns.
  • Export-ready data for leadership reviews.
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Production routings and planning master data

Live

The 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.

  • Product and SKU master data: categories, run rates and standard cost per unit.
  • Routings across process areas (mixing, filling, packing) mapped to lines and shift patterns.
  • Populated from your existing spreadsheets by AI-assisted onboarding, and editable in plain English.
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Single source of truth

Live

Bring 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.

  • One shared view for planning, operations and finance.
  • Role-based access so each team sees what it needs.
  • Consistent figures across the schedule, reports and costing.
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Multi-device support

Live

One 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.

  • Responsive across desktop, tablet and mobile, with no separate app to install.
  • Planners run the full schedule; the floor reads live line status on large screens; managers check risk from a phone.
  • Role-based access controls what each person can see and change, on any device.
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Early pre-release

Rolling out now

These are built and being trialled with a first set of early-access manufacturers. They are close to general availability, and your feedback now shapes the final shape they take.

AI-assisted replanning

Early pre-release

When production falls behind, FactoryPlan.app will suggest practical schedule changes for your team to review, adjust and approve. Your team stays in control.

  • Move an order to another line, extend a run or resequence jobs.
  • Split an order across slots, and flag where delivery dates are at risk.
  • Suggestions only: planner-controlled, not autonomous scheduling.
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Adaptive planning rules

Early pre-release

Turn 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.

  • Planners write the reason for a change in plain language. No configuration needed.
  • AI proposes a rule and the planner sets its weighting (from a one-off to 'apply every time').
  • Rules feed the scheduling engine, so the software adapts to how your factory actually runs.
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On the roadmap

Coming next

These are in active development on the near-term roadmap. Early-access customers get a direct say in how they are shaped and the order they land in.

Loss-risk alerts at planning

Roadmap

Flag 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.

  • Warns when overtime crewing, a run rate below standard or historic OEE on the chosen line pushes estimated cost above what the order was costed at.
  • Shows the estimated loss per order at the point of planning, so the team can reschedule, re-crew, re-price or accept it knowingly.
  • Gives finance managers, commercial managers and production directors the same margin picture the planner sees, before the order runs, not at month end.
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This roadmap is indicative and will evolve. It is not a commitment to specific dates or delivery order.

Want to shape what comes next?

Early-access manufacturers help set the priorities. Book a demo to see where FactoryPlan.app is heading.