A plan is only as honest as the actuals behind it. Operators book process status by scanning shift, machine and operator barcodes — capturing real start and end times, cycle and setting time, OK and Not-OK production, and breakdown and idle time. From those actuals Fast Planning reports plan vs actual, utilization and efficiency, and graphical OEE-style dashboards — and the numbers you measure feed straight into the next planning run.
Reporting isn't a separate data-entry chore: it's the by-product of the process status your operators already book. See where the plan starts in our production planning guide.
Shop-floor data is only useful if it's captured, and it's only captured if it's fast. Operators book process status by scanning three barcodes in sequence — shift, then machine, then operator — and then record the actuals against the job: actual start and end times, cycle and setting time, OK and Not-OK production, and breakdown or idle time. Scanning instead of typing keeps booking quick and accurate, so every downstream number reflects what really happened at the machine.
Once actuals are booked, plan vs actual writes itself: planned times and quantities against what the floor really did, work order by work order. Beside it sit work-centre, machine and operator utilization reports and completed reports by order, machine, shift and operator — so "is the plan working?" stops being a debate and becomes a number. It's the honesty check that turns a hopeful schedule into a measured one.
Utilization says how busy; efficiency says how well. Fast Planning reports daily and monthly operator efficiency and machine-wise efficiency, work-centre rework, and idle-time and additional-time summaries — so you see who and what is running to standard and where hours are lost. Live machine status and live job-card status sit alongside, showing what each machine is doing right now and where each job card has reached — the shop floor as it is, not as it was this morning.
The graphical dashboards turn the actuals into OEE-style pictures — operator efficiency, machine efficiency and idle time — so management review reads a chart, not a spreadsheet. And the loop closes: the efficiency, utilization and idle numbers you measure become the reality the next planning run assumes, so loading and scheduling get more realistic each cycle. Dhruv AI adds planning role dashboards, insight summaries on plan-vs-actual and OEE, and plain-English questions answered read-only.
Operators book by scanning shift, machine and operator, then record actual times, cycle and setting, OK/Not-OK, breakdown and idle.
Planned times and quantities against booked actuals, work order by work order — the honesty check on every plan.
Work-centre, machine and operator utilization from booked time, alongside completed reports by order, machine, shift and operator.
Daily and monthly operator efficiency, machine-wise efficiency, work-centre rework, and idle- and additional-time summaries.
What each machine is doing right now and where each job card has reached — the shop floor as it is, not as it was.
Operator efficiency, machine efficiency and idle time as charts, and the measured numbers feed the next planning run.
A plan you never measure against is a plan you never improve. Here's what barcode-booked actuals change — and for the fundamentals, read our production planning guide.
Operators book process status on the shop floor by scanning barcodes in sequence — shift, then machine, then operator — and then record the actuals against that job: actual start and end times, cycle and setting time, OK and Not-OK production, and breakdown or idle time. Scanning instead of typing keeps the booking fast and accurate, so the actuals feeding every report reflect what really happened at the machine.
Plan vs actual compares what you scheduled against what the shop floor actually booked — planned times and quantities against actual start and end, cycle and setting time, and OK versus Not-OK production. It turns a plan from a hopeful document into a measured one, showing exactly where the floor ran to plan and where it drifted, work order by work order.
From the booked actuals Fast Planning reports work-centre, machine and operator utilization and efficiency, work-centre rework, and idle-time and additional-time summaries, alongside completed reports by order, machine, shift and operator. Daily and monthly operator efficiency and machine-wise efficiency let you see who and what is running to standard, and where time is being lost.
The graphical dashboards turn the actuals into OEE-style pictures — operator efficiency, machine efficiency and idle time — so management review reads a chart instead of a spreadsheet. Live machine status and live job-card status sit alongside, showing what each machine is doing right now and where each job card has reached. Dhruv AI adds insight summaries and plain-English questions on top.
The efficiency, utilization and idle-time numbers you measure become the reality the next planning run assumes. If a machine consistently runs slower than its standard, or a work centre carries recurring rework, that shows up in the actuals and feeds back into loading and scheduling — so the plan gets more realistic each cycle. Fast Planning runs cloud or on-premise, for manufacturers of every kind, across India and worldwide.
Live demo of barcode process-status booking, plan vs actual, utilization and OEE dashboards — on your own machines and operators. Cloud or on-premise, no generic slideshow.
