Manufacturing Automation Consulting for Shop Floors

An automation consultant evaluates how your current production planning, scheduling, data flow, and shop floor processes work, then recommends practical improvements. For manufacturers, that often means mapping work orders, routings, work centers, shifts, setup rules, and dependencies so software can reflect real capacity. OnePlanify focuses on turning those constraints into a finite schedule planners can actually run and trust.

OnePlanify starts with the realities of your shop floor instead of forcing a generic software template. The team reviews how you schedule today, where spreadsheets or ERP modules fall short, and which constraints matter most. From there, Planify helps connect production data, configure scheduling rules, and run a first finite schedule that reflects capacity, setups, shifts, and dependencies.

No. Planify is designed to sit alongside your ERP as the scheduling layer your ERP module may not provide. It can pull work orders, routings, and work-center data through CSV, API, or database-read patterns, then send sequenced operations back to the floor. This avoids a rip-and-replace project while giving planners stronger finite scheduling capability.

Most manufacturers begin with work orders, operation routings, work centers, setup and run times, shift calendars, and basic capacity rules. If you already manage this in an ERP or spreadsheet, Planify can use that information as the starting point. During onboarding, the team helps identify missing fields, clean up scheduling assumptions, and build a usable first model.

Yes. Planify is built for real-world shop floor complexity, including sequence-dependent setup times, 1st/2nd/3rd shift calendars, overtime rules, holidays, workforce constraints, and multi-operation dependencies. It prevents downstream operations from starting before upstream work is complete and preserves those rules during replans, so the published schedule better matches what production can actually run.

Planify uses small-batch onboarding so implementation is scoped and hands-on rather than a multi-month consulting engagement. The goal is to connect production data, configure core constraints, and run an initial finite schedule inside weeks instead of quarters. Exact timing depends on data readiness, ERP access, routing complexity, and how many work centers must be modeled first.

Planify can replan the board in seconds when a machine goes down, a customer expedites an order, or capacity changes unexpectedly. Its Pretend mode lets planners model the disruption before committing changes, compare what slips, and choose the least damaging response. That gives teams faster decisions without dropping setup, shift, or dependency constraints.

Planify is offered as a browser-based SaaS subscription, with finite scheduling listed as starting at $165 per month depending on the licensing approach. Many scheduling capabilities, ERP connector setup, and small-batch onboarding are included with the subscription scope. A meeting helps confirm the number of planners, work centers, data connections, and implementation needs before final pricing.