Protect Commitments
Shop Floor Scheduling Made Easy
Bring Scheduling and Visiblity to Any ERP
Increase Profitability
Seamless Integration
Easy to Set Up. Easy to Maintain.
Anticipate Issues
See the Future Before it Happens
Optimize Large & Small Jobs
Eliminate Expediting
The results were immediate. We went from four weeks late to three weeks late to two weeks late to one week late. And now, I can look out one month and see that we’re going to be one day, two days late on this job, but on time for that job.
We don’t "kick" all of the jobs to the shop floor at once like we used to. Putting too many jobs onto the shop floor prematurely burns up machine time. You utilize capacity before it needs to be used by putting all the jobs out on the shop floor at once.
In the first couple months using PFM, our concentration was to just get rid of the backlog of late orders. Now, since February 2018, we’ve run four months in a row where we’ve been 90% or better on time with all of the orders coming through the door. That’s a dramatic turnaround!
PFM's Core Features & Benefits

Real Time Shop Floor Execution
PFM’s foundation is its ability to prioritize work in real time rather then require you to run and re-run a schedule. This puts the latest, most accurate information into the hands of the people that need it. Job assignments are understood, trusted, and done in the right priority.

Predictive Analytics
Traditional scheduling solutions “assign” future capacity to jobs and then need to be re-run over and over as unplanned events happen. PFM instead “simulates” the use of your capacity and shows you what jobs are predicted to have problems and at what resources these problems may occur at. This gives you a clear picture of the future, which enables you to implement an action plan in order to deliver jobs on time.

Protective Time Buffers
PFM plans for unknown problems that can disrupt a static schedule. It does so by protecting the job with a time buffer that can be calculated based on:
- A ratio of actual time to buffer time
- The sum of different size buffers based on the operations required
Aerospace & Defense
- Engineering with CAD integration
- Engineering change control
- Specifications and data "flow down" for ITAR, DFAR, etc.
- Actual job costing
- Project Management with Earned Value Management and milestone reporting
Automotive Manufacturing
- Configuration management
- Serial and lot control
- Design and engineering
- Capacity planning & scheduling (Lean, TOC, JIT)
- Actual costing
Electronics & High-Tech
- Alternate item on bill of materials (BOM)
- Item cross reference (supplier and manufacturer)
- Approved vendors and manufacturer lists
- Supply chain visibility with Web based portals
- Reference designators
Energy Manufacturing
- Strengthen Your Supply Chain
- Sophisticated Project Management
- Connect Service Efforts to Operations
- Localization & Financial Accounting Visibility
Field Service, Maintenance & Repair
- Improve Customer Satisfaction & First Time Fix Rate
- Reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Optimize Routing of Field Service Techs
- Support for Depot Repair, Break-Fix & More
- Offer Managed Service Contracts
Furniture & Fixtures
- Industry Expert Partners
- Increase Quote Win Rate
- Improve Planning & Scheduling
- Cut Operational Costs
- Shorten Product Development Lifecycles
Industrial Equipment & Machinery
- Win More Business
- Meet Customer Delivery Expectations
- Increase Velocity of Spare Part Sales
- Collaborate With Suppliers & Customers
- Leave Your Competitors Behind
Industrial Manufacturing
Learn More- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
Medical Device Manufacturing
- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
Metal, Glass, & Plastic Fabrication
- Purpose-Built ERP
- Estimate with Confidence
- Improve Delivery Performance
- Paperless Real-Time Shop Floor Data Collection
- The Right Materials at the Right Time
Process Manufacturing
- Flexible Formula Management
- Stay On Top of Quality Requirements & Regulations
- Build a Better Batch
- Lot Recall
- Process Workbench
Related Products and Services
- Improve Manufacturing Efficiency
- Reduce Production Waste
- Track & Analyze Downtime in Real-time
- Instant Notifications for Shop Floor Workers
- Improve Operator Engagement & Communication
- Organize your data by time period
- Drill down to see detail of summarized or grouped data
- Easy filtering tools
- Self-service reporting means reports when you want them not when a report writer can get to them
- Real time Dashboards, Pivots, Reports, Charts with automatic drill downs
- Scheduling That Actually Works
- Expedited Quote to Cash
- Eliminate Future Issues
- Dynamic Material Planning
- Quick Implementation
- Looking directly at real time consumption rates of material rather than a static forecast
- Dynamically adjusting stock levels as demand changes
- Analyzing and suggesting stocking levels between manufacturing assemblies and sub-assemblies to optimize flow and eliminate stock-outs
- Managing procurement to align supply dynamically with changes in demand
- Build Loyalty
- Save Time & Money
- Anticipate Issues
- Deliver On Time
- Easy Access
- Descriptive, Predictive & Prescriptive Data Analytics
- Integration Services On-Demand
- Self Service
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