Manufacturing Case Studies

The Operational Challenge: The shop ran multiple milling and turning centres across two bays. Daily scheduling was handled on a 10-foot magnetic whiteboard located in the supervisor office. When rush orders came in or tooling arrived late, updates required manual board erasing, verbal phone calls, and repeated shop floor walks to re-sequence jobs.

The Digital Implementation: Synctile was deployed across two overhead TV screens mounted in the main machining cells and paired with tablet access for production supervisors. Jobs were imported directly from weekly work orders into visual colour-coded queues.

The Outcome: Operators now glance up at the screen to check the next scheduled setup and job dependencies without leaving their work centres. The shop eliminated manual whiteboard rewriting and reduced daily shift handover meetings to under ten minutes.

The Operational Challenge: Custom fabrication jobs moved through multiple dependent steps: laser cutting, press brake forming, welding, and powder coating. Jobs were tracked with paper traveller folders that frequently were misplaced between workstations or delayed when design revisions occurred mid-process.

The Digital Implementation: The shop adopted Synctile's digital T-card board. Each job traveller became a digital card with clear machine routing and attached drawing notes. Visual dependency links ensured downstream welding operations were only queued once cutting and forming completed.

The Outcome: Both office estimators and shop fabricators share the same live schedule. Production managers identify machine backlogs days in advance and reassign work with a single drag-and-drop action.