Shop Floor Management and Control Software for Manufacturers

Shop floor software helps manufacturers plan, schedule, track, and adjust production activity across machines, labor, shifts, and work orders. Planify focuses on finite scheduling and control, meaning it respects real capacity, setup times, routing dependencies, and calendar constraints instead of assuming every resource is available all the time.

A shop floor is managed by maintaining accurate work orders, sequencing jobs around real capacity, tracking setups and shifts, and quickly responding when priorities change. Planify supports this by turning routings, work centers, shift calendars, and dependencies into a live schedule that planners can rework in seconds when disruptions happen.

Planify is designed for manufacturers that need a realistic production schedule beyond spreadsheets or infinite-capacity ERP scheduling. It is especially useful for machine shops, press shops, and multi-operation environments where setup times, work-center constraints, routing order, and rush orders regularly affect what can actually run on the floor.

Yes. Planify connects with ERP data through CSV, API, or database read patterns, depending on your environment. It can pull work orders, routings, and work-center data, then dispatch sequenced operations back to the floor. It is designed to sit alongside your ERP as the scheduling layer, not replace it.

Planify models setup, run, teardown, and move times per operation. It also supports sequence-dependent setups, so changing from Job A to Job B can carry a different setup time than changing from Job A to Job C. This helps planners group compatible jobs and reduce hidden changeover losses.

When a machine goes down or a rush order arrives, Planify can replan the board in seconds while preserving constraints such as setups, shifts, and dependencies. Its Pretend mode lets planners model the disruption first, preview which orders slip, and choose the least-damaging option before committing changes.

Planify supports shift-aware scheduling by placing work inside real shift calendars. It can account for first, second, and third shifts, weekend closures, holidays, overtime rules, calendar exceptions, and workforce availability constraints. This prevents jobs from being scheduled on shifts that do not actually exist.

Planify’s service catalog lists SaaS subscription pricing starting at $165 per month, with per-planner or per-work-center licensing. Many capabilities, including finite scheduling, shift-aware scheduling, ERP integration, and replanning tools, are included in the subscription. A scoping meeting helps confirm the right setup for your floor.