Ready, held, in progress or done

Create manufacturing orders manually or automatically, check component readiness, hold work that's waiting on parts, and track jobs through work centers to finished goods.

Know a job is ready before it reaches the floor

A job isn't ready just because it appears on the production schedule.

MaXXflow connects work-order status with the information that decides whether work can proceed. You see which jobs are ready, blocked, delayed or at risk before the issue reaches the production floor. The point is knowing whether a job can start, and what's in the way if it can't.

A scheduled job and a ready job aren't the same thing

True production readiness may depend on:

an approved and accurate BOM
the required materials being available
purchase orders arriving in time
engineering changes being resolved
work orders being released
the required resources and work centers being available
any quality or process requirements being completed

In a spreadsheet, job status gets unclear quickly. A job is listed as active, but materials are missing. It's scheduled, but engineering is still finalizing changes. It's delayed, but nobody outside the floor can see why.

Production then inherits problems that should have been visible earlier, and has to stop, reschedule or work around them. The production manager's side of this is on Production managers.

Manufacturing orders that check before work starts

MaXXflow connects each order to the BOM requirements, inventory availability, purchasing status and production progress behind it.

Create manufacturing orders manually or automatically, including from confirmed sales orders, so production work is tied to real demand. See Quotes and sales orders.
Check component readiness, so a missing part shows up on the order, not at the workbench.
Hold work waiting for components, so a job that can't proceed is visibly held instead of quietly stalling on the floor.
Complete orders into finished-goods inventory, so finished stock shows up in inventory when the work is done.

Track the work through work centers to completion

Once work is released, MaXXflow follows it through production.

Operations and work centers. Plan and execute work across operations and work centers, with scheduling support and start and stop timing. Capacity and scheduling are covered on Scheduling and capacity.
On the floor, by scan. Work-order execution, time logging and completion can be done by barcode, including manufacturing-order completion. See Barcode and QR scanning.
Work in progress you can see. WIP visibility shows production and management what work is currently moving through the business.

MaXXflow's dashboards include a manufacturing dashboard, and a dashboard can show work-order status, production progress and which jobs can be built with confidence. Work orders that need attention are surfaced rather than left for someone to find. See Alerts and exceptions.

Fewer stoppages, less building out of sequence

The cost of poor readiness is rarely dramatic: building out of sequence, stoppages from avoidable shortages, the time spent working around both.

MaXXflow helps production teams identify job readiness issues before they become shop-floor disruptions. Not every disruption can be avoided, but more of them can be seen early enough to manage.

Readiness is only as good as the dependencies MaXXflow knows about

"Job" and "work order" are often used to mean similar things, though the meaning varies from business to business. What matters is that a job has dependencies, and MaXXflow needs to know them to judge whether it's ready.

Your work orders, production status, work centers and capacity information are part of the data set up during implementation. Readiness is only as reliable as the BOMs, stock and purchasing information behind it.

Work orders are often a second step. Many businesses start with BOM-driven material requirements and purchasing, then expand into work orders, barcode scanning and scheduling visibility once that's stable.