Shop floor control

Controlling your department

An important premise behind shop floor control is that people perform better if they have a better comprehension of what is expected of them. This is why the shop floor control efforts of Floor2Plan focus on providing key roles such as supervisors, production managers, and trade leads with an overview of all priorities, pending items, risks, performance indicators, material status, documents, and insights to support their day-today decision making.

Multiple departments, multiple perspectives

In order to provide supervisors with an instant insight in the performance of their team or department, Floor2Plan aligns itself with the dominant logic of the particular department. Since either rooms, areas, blocks, systems, or engineering documents are the objects that these departments are working on, these are also the intermediate products to which we provide our data. By combining planning and task information with this product breakdown, a supervisor has an instant overview of all pending items per room or block.

Multiple systems, one overview

Through the integration of Floor2Plan with other systems such as ERP, a supervisor has an instant view per component (area, block, room, system) on pending items such as the material status in the warehouse, the level of completion of predecessors, the utilization of

resources within his team weeks in advance, the budgeted hours, available floor space. All task-relevant information can be distributed through this single platform for operational execution and control.

Resulting in better decision making

Since the instant recognition of status for all pending items risks, issues, deviations are signaled at an earlier stage, the most cost-effective mitigating efforts can be applied.

Normal practice is that all supervisors create their own (Excel) lists to keep track of issues, plan work in more detail, or control the number of workers per task to keep up with the planned finish date. Floor2Plan brings all these distinctive informational needs together, thereby greatly enhancing transparency, facilitating instant recognition of deviation, and limiting the hours that supervisors currently spend on administration. This leads to better decision making and a better production flow.

Transparency in tracking changes and issues (also in the engineering 3D model)

Applying one entry point for all operational processes not only results in better decision making on the supervisor level, but it also allows for proper risk and deviation signaling on the project control level. Since Floor2Plan provides feedback on status, issues, risks, and annotations between the shop floor and management level, deviations are made available instantly. Distinctive workflows can be applied from Floor2Plan, making sure that dedicated issue managers are notified directly when an issue occurs – even in the 3D engineering model if applicable, since Floor2Plan synchronizes the status of issues with eShare.

Departmental performance enhancements

Through the various performance metrics applied within Floor2Plan, distinctive breakdowns can be applied to recognize the performance on both intermediate products and department or team performance. Various earned values metrics such as CPIs and SPIs are made available on the department or team level to signal deviations in order to identify learning effects and develop their operational performance over time.