Production Management Software streamlines work orders, scheduling, and shop-floor control

CAT Squared’s Production Control Module (PCM) enables companies to optimize production plans based on sales orders, purchase orders, and priority rules, then monitor real-time production progress against those plans. PCM integrates with plant-floor scales and CAT Squared's Label Manager to manage finished-good production. It provides a holistic view of plant-floor performance in one location, allowing management to view real-time pack-out yields and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs).

Benefits

• Reduces downtime by enabling immediate adjustments during production
• Keeps management fully informed through real-time reporting
• Facilitates yield optimization by highlighting performance data as it happens
• Improves labeling consistency and accuracy through integrated label management
• Helps control costs by comparing planned vs. actual usage of packaging and BOM materials

Features

• Generates production plans by integrating with sales and manufacturing orders from an ERP system
• Allows management to make on-the-fly changes to production, with updates instantly reflected at scale/label stations on the plant floor
• Provides real-time production, movement, and inventory reports
• Tracks consumption of packaging and BOM materials to compare planned vs. actual usage
• Displays live data in reports and on plant-floor scoreboards
• Integrates with Label Manager for user-friendly, customizable label design
• Offers a dynamic interface for plant-floor users, including hotkeys for ease of use
• Monitors production progress against schedules in real time
• Supports pallet labeling, manual case labeling, and automated in-motion case labeling, available in both bar code and RFID formats
• Enforces the production plan at each scale station, ensuring adherence to schedules and specifications
• Generates daily material requirements based on each day’s production plan