Epifor turns every operation reported on the floor into three things you can act on: where each order stands right now, what capacity you actually have this week, and what each job is costing while it is still running. One source, updating as the work happens, on a screen rather than in a meeting.
What changes for you
One live picture instead of a status meeting
Every operation is reported at the work center that performed it, so the board on your screen is the floor as it is at that moment. Which orders are running, which are late, which work center has them and how long they have been standing there.
Capacity you can commit to
See the load on every work center and work center group before anyone gives a customer a date. When a machine goes down, the load rebalances and you can see what it costs you before the week does.
Real cost per order, before the invoice
Labor, machine time and downtime are attributed to the order that consumed them. Margin becomes something you watch on a live job rather than something you calculate on a finished one.
Delays that arrive with a cause attached
Completion dates are projected from live floor conditions, and the work center causing a slip is named while there is still time to move something. Downtime carries alarms and root cause, so the same problem stops arriving every month.
Answers without building a report
Ask “are all my orders on time?” or “what caused yesterday’s downtime?” and get an answer from your own production data. KPI reports and dashboards update as work is reported, and the data streams into Power BI if that is where your board pack lives.
Adoption you do not have to force
Operators learn the interface in about five minutes and administrators in about an hour. Permission levels are not predefined, so you create a level, name it and decide exactly what it can and cannot do. Nothing on the floor changes to suit the software.
The screens you live in
Live dashboards for the floor and the office.
Order board
Every order with status, work center and elapsed time.
Capacity load
Load across every work center and work center group.
KPI reporting
OEE, utilization, scrap and on-time delivery.