Industries
For workshops that make to order
Vexyon makes sense wherever every order is a little different, goes through several sections and has a planned time. These are the shops it fits best, and what changes in each.
What they have in common
The industries differ, but the problem repeats: every order has a planned time, the actual hours are written down late or badly, and the overrun is discovered once the work has left. Three traits mean a shop gets something out of it:
- It works to order, not on a continuous line.
- It has sections: each order goes through several parts of the process and several people.
- It has a planned time, in the quote or in the ERP, that it wants to compare with the actual one.
Industries with a page of their own
For each of these we explain how clocking by section is organised and where the hours tend to go:
- CNC machiningProgramming, setup, machining and inspection: how a CNC shop clocks by section, and why it pays to keep setup separate.
- Metal fabricationLong jobs, many people and several sections: how a fabrication or structural steel job is clocked, and how the overrun shows before it is finished.
- Steel doors and metalworkSteel doors, railings and grilles: how a metalwork shop logs both workshop and installation hours against each order.
- Machine buildingOne-off, long projects: how a bespoke machine builder clocks by section, and how the history of hours helps quote the next machine.
- Moulds and diesMachining, EDM, fitting and trials: how a mould or die is clocked by section, and where the fitting hours show.
- Furniture and kitchensCutting, edge banding, machining, finishing and fitting: how a bespoke furniture or kitchen manufacturer clocks time to each order.
Other shops it also fits
Print and packaging
A job goes through prepress, printing, die-cutting and finishing, and each stage has its own time. Clocking by order and section shows which stage ran long on each job.
Signage
Design, printing, cutting and assembly, often with an installation at the end. With the detailed entry, installation hours are booked to their order too, with their date.
Industrial repair and maintenance
Here there is often no planned time, because every repair is different. What matters is having the actual hours on each works order properly recorded, filtering them by customer and date and being able to export them.
What does not change from one industry to the next
Whatever the shop, Vexyon works the same way: on its own or connected to the ERP read only, with clocking from a touchscreen kiosk or a phone, the guard rail on hours, its own history and reports by date. How production control works.