Custom apps
The workflow that is unique to your plant
Every plant has a process that no standard product covers, currently held together by a spreadsheet and one person's memory. Build it in FactoryThread instead, on live data, with permissions and an audit trail.
What teams build first
None of these is exotic. They are the six things a plant already does on paper or in a shared workbook, and the reason they are still on paper is that they are too specific to buy and too small to schedule.
Shift handover
Capture output, losses and open issues at shift close, and send the next crew a summary before they walk in.
Deviation capture
Log a deviation at the line with the order, the machine and the operator already attached to it.
Supplier expedite
Raise the request, track what the supplier said, and keep the answer against the part rather than in an inbox.
Line-side stock check
Compare consumption against what is actually on the line and flag the parts that run out first.
Changeover tracker
Time every changeover against its target and surface the worst offenders by line and by product.
Daily management board
One board for the morning meeting, populated from the source systems before anyone arrives.
Configured, not coded from scratch
Start from your connected data, define the fields and rules, set who can see and do what, and publish. Changes take minutes, not a release cycle.
The reason the spreadsheet survives is not that nobody has noticed it. It is that replacing it properly means an integration, a screen, a permissions model and someone to own all three — which is a quarter of work for a process that takes four people twenty minutes a day.
So the spreadsheet stays, and with it the two failure modes everyone already knows about: the numbers in it are keyed by hand from systems that already hold them, and when the person who built it leaves, nobody can safely change it.
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Start from data you already connected
The app is built on live Connections, so the fields it captures sit beside the orders, assets and parts they refer to instead of being retyped next to them.
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Define the fields and the rules
What gets captured, what is required, what happens when a value crosses a threshold. Configured, not written — and changed the same way.
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Decide who sees and does what
Permissions are set on the app rather than defended by convention, and every change carries who made it and when.
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Publish it
It goes live for the people it was built for. The next change takes minutes, because there is no release to wait for.
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