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Manufacturing, engineering, production and service must remain continuously aligned. In practice, urgent orders, engineering changes and shifting priorities create disruption in the planning process. With vPlan, you bring everything together in one central planning overview, enabling better collaboration between teams, reducing downtime and making lead times predictable.
Whether you produce in series, deliver customised work or manage multiple projects at the same time, vPlan helps you maintain overview and control. You break down orders and projects into clear phases, from engineering and work preparation to production, assembly and delivery.
With vPlan, you structure orders and projects into clear phases: from engineering and work preparation to production, assembly and delivery. Tasks are linked to people, machines and resources, with clear deadlines and dependencies. This makes the impact of any change immediately visible.
In manufacturing, capacity is never about a single factor. With vPlan, you get a single overview of available capacity, where overload is building up, and where valuable machines are standing idle. This prevents work from piling up while capacity goes unused, or teams from being structurally overburned. As a result, you make better planning decisions, reduce waste and get more value from your capacity.
From production orders and drawings to progress and communication. All information is brought together around the order that matters. This ensures that everyone on and off the shop floor works with the same up-to-date data, without scattered emails, paper lists or unclear handovers.
vPlan supports shop floor control and helps take steps towards a paperless, digital factory, where planning and execution are seamlessly aligned.
You know exactly what to do and when, with all the information you need at your fingertips. No searching, no surprises
You see in realtime what is in progress, what risks getting stuck and where there is capacity available.
You see where time and capacity are being spent and what that means for cost price and margin. This allows you to steer on lead time, utilisation and delivery reliability, with full control over results.
At Brunink Group in Hardenberg, they've made a significant efficiency leap. With the implementation of vPlan, the company now saves hours every week during planning meetings. Meetings once hindered by endless discussions are now clear and accessible to everyone, giving the organization more calm and a streamlined workflow.
Planning that works doesn't have to be a challenge. With vPlan, you work smarter, not harder. From simple workflows to real-time collaboration.
Yes, vPlan can be configured for different production types within manufacturing and brings structure to both repetitive work and custom projects.
- Serial production: plan capacity, repetitive operations and lead times
- Engineer-to-order (ETO): plan engineering, work preparation and production as connected steps, with changes automatically carried through to subsequent operations.
- High mix / low volume: maintain overview by defining dependencies between operations, making it clear what can start and when.
vPlan makes clear which operations depends on which previous step, enabling more realistic planning and reducing disruption when changes occur.
Downtime occurs when overview is lacking. With vPlan, teams work with one central schedule that brings together operations and progress. This allows you to adjust in time and prevent downtime on the shop floor. vPlan reduces downtime by:
- Making dependencies between different operations visible
- Providing realtime insight into the progress and status of tasks and orders
- Immediately translating changes into the schedule, so everyone works with the same up-to-date information
- Identifying bottlenecks early, before they impact the shop floor
This enables planners and teams to act proactively, rather than reacting only once production or assembly has already come to a standstill.
Yes, vPlan integrates with many ERP and accounting systems, such as Exact, AFAS and others. Work orders, pre-calculations or projects are automatically imported, after which you further plan them in vPlan at task level, taking into account your pre-calculation, capacity and time. This prevents double work and reduces the risk of errors.
Changes and urgent orders are part of manufacturing. vPlan does not eliminate them, but ensures they are visible earlier and easier to manage. When a change or urgent order occurs, you immediately see:
- Which work orders are affected
- The impact on capacity and deadlines
- Which alternative planning options are available
This gives you the tools to adjust quickly and efficiently, and to communicate more realistically with customers.
In the manufacturing process, the impact of changes increases the further you progress. vPlan makes all steps and dependencies visible, allowing delays to be identified earlier. As a result, you can:
- Better substantiate planning decisions
- Commit to more realistic delivery dates
- Prevent last-minute surprises at the end of the process
Many manufacturing companies use vPlan specifically to deliver more reliably, not just faster.
Yes. vPlan also includes an app that is easy to use on the shop floor and supports shop floor control. Operators and technicians work with one clear, digital schedule that shows exactly what needs to be done. Through the app, they have access to:
- Their schedule and production orders
- Drawings, instructions and attachments
- Status updates and changes
This ensures everyone works with the same up-to-date information and eliminates paper lists, loose work orders and miscommunication.
