Industries · Furniture and kitchens
Time tracking and production control for furniture and kitchen manufacturers
A bespoke kitchen or piece of furniture goes through cutting, edge banding, machining, assembly and finishing, and often ends with a fitting. Every order is different, and so is the time it really takes.
Bespoke orders, a process run by section
Makers of bespoke furniture, kitchens and bathroom units work to order: every project has its own sizes, materials and finishes. The shop, though, is organised by section, and many orders pass through each section at once.
Clocking by order and section is what lets you cross the two: what each kitchen cost, and where the hours went.
Typical sections
- Cutting
- Squaring and cutting panels.
- Edge banding
- Applying the edges.
- Machining
- Drilling, grooving and special parts, on the CNC or by hand.
- Assembly
- Carcasses, drawers and fronts.
- Finishing
- Lacquering or varnishing, if done in the shop.
- Fitting
- Installation at the customer’s home, with the date it is done.
Fitting counts too
A kitchen is not finished in the workshop. If fitting hours are not recorded properly, an order can look profitable without having been. With the detailed entry they are booked to the order and to the fitting section, with the date they were worked.
From planned time to actual
If the orders and planned times are in the ERP, Vexyon reads them read only and compares each order with its planned time on every entry. If not, you start without an ERP, adding the orders in the panel. How to read the variance.
Operators clock in from a touchscreen kiosk in the section or from a phone, with no keyboard, and cannot log more hours than they worked. What clocking in looks like.
Each project’s drawings
The drawings for each kitchen or piece of furniture are uploaded by hand in the panel, by customer, by order or by order and section, and read right there. At section level they carry a status: done, in progress or pending.