Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Whether the employees are in the work preparation department, in production or tasked with assembly at the customer’s premises, HOMAG’S “digital job folder” now gives everyone access to all information about each job in real time. The web app also makes the current status of individual components transparent for everyone involved with an overview of the status of the jobs, always. The web app can be used by anyone who has a laptop or tablet to hand.
In the work preparation department, the user imports all data from any software systems, such as Excel, industry software or a CAD/CAM system, into the productionManager web app.
Alternatively, the user can create the data directly in the software. From this point on, any employee with a laptop or tablet at hand can access the data: items, assemblies and components, including the relevant drawings and information. Changes can be entered quickly and are therefore available to all users immediately. Drawings, images or further supplements can also be easily added to any job.
HOMAG’s “digital job folder” bundles all the important information about a job in one place. And because it’s a web application, employees of wood-processing companies can access it from anywhere where they have access to the Internet: in the office, in the workshop or on the construction site. All employees in production or assembly have full transparency over all jobs. For example, they can view job progress in real time and the status of items and components for easy tracking.
Anyone who also uses the HOMAG’s productionAssist Feedback app can easily define individual stations in the workshop at which feedback on the current status of the individual component/item should be given. Feedback can be submitted to the app by scanning (using a hand-held scanner or tablet) or by clicking in the app. The benefit: All employees know at any point in time where particular components have already been processed or whether the furniture has been assembled in the assembly area.
HOMAG’s “digital job folder” can be integrated into any existing workshop environment with very little effort. No adjustments are necessary in the software landscape or in the machine pool. The machine pool is usually made up of machines from different manufacturers — this is also no obstacle to using the software.
Cost-effective: No investment, update or maintenance costs
There is no risk with regard to costs when using productionManager. The use of the web app can be billed monthly or annually and can also be canceled within these cycles. The benefits of the web-based software: it is always up-to-date, no server landscape is required and no effort is required for updates.
The backbone in communication between HOMAG apps
Anyone using other HOMAG apps or digital assistants has many additional benefits thanks to coordinated interfaces between productionManager and the HOMAG apps. Within the app environment, productionManager acts as a central application in the background and ensures that the correct information appears in the correct place in the work preparation department and the workshop.
At the same time, HOMAG has also developed suitable interfaces with various external software partners. In conjunction with imos iX, Borm ERP systems, SWOOD or SmartWOP, the HOMAG software also shows how simple and easy seamless data exchange between different systems can be. While data is exchanged between the different manufacturers’ software solutions fully automatically in the background, users will see a uniform and lean solution from a single source.
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