Overview
StartProto is a comprehensive manufacturing management system designed to streamline operations, prioritize tasks, and ensure efficient production. Whether you're involved in processing physical materials, manufacturing components, or creating finished products, StartProto is tailored to meet your specific needs and challenges.
Our Goal
Our primary goal is to provide you with an intelligent system that not only identifies what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and by whom but also guides you to do it most efficiently. At StartProto, we believe in simplifying manufacturing complexities, helping you meet your deadlines, maximize productivity, and, ultimately, succeed in your business.
Key Features:
Flexibility in Priorities:
Instant Priority Adjustment: Easily rearrange priorities, and the work list for the shop floor instantly adapts to reflect the changes.
Quick Revisions: Make quick revisions to ongoing processes without disrupting the workflow.
Efficient Demand Management:
Demand Calculation: The system determines what needs to be done based on current inventory, outstanding orders, and defined routings.
Multiple Ways to Create Demand:
Add sales orders
Set minimum stock levels
Create jobs for specific tasks
Detailed Routing and Inventory Management:
Define How to Make It: Specify detailed routings outlining the steps needed to create an item.
Accurate Inventory Tracking: Monitor inventory levels, including work-in-progress (WIP) items, to ensure precise demand fulfillment.
Work Generation:
Automatic Work Generation: Based on demand and inventory levels, StartProto generates work schedules, indicating what needs to be done.
Clear Instructions: Easily view what needs to be done in the purchasing, shop floor, and shipping sections.
Additional Features:
Intelligent Demand Priority:
Pull-Based Scheduling: Prioritize tasks based on demand and dynamically adjust schedules to meet changing priorities.
Accurate Costing & Quoting:
Projected Costs: Use routings and purchasing information to quote prices and accurately track historical costs.
Comprehensive Documentation:
Efficient Documentation: Easily attach setup sheets, drawings, and other documents to relevant processes.
Internal Communication: Comment interface allows quick communication and documentation of machine setups.
Record-Keeping:
Historical Tracking: Keep detailed records of inventory levels, shipping and receiving, order edits, costing data, and more.
Who Should Use StartProto?
For Management:
Real-Time Tracking: Instantly track the progress of orders and communicate changes across the organization.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize historical data and financial tracking to make informed business decisions.
For Front Office:
Efficient Document Generation: Easily generate quotes, acknowledgments, and packing slips.
Streamlined Purchasing: Quickly identify items that need to be ordered and connect with vendors easily.
For Shop Floor:
Automatic Tracking: Automatically track parts through manufacturing, eliminating the need for manual inventory counts.
Instant Access to Documentation: Access setup sheets, drawings, and other critical information without interruption.
Additional Resources and Feedback:
We highly value your feedback! Reach out to us at [email protected] with any suggestions or questions.
Our mission is to continue improving StartProto to empower every employee in your organization. We're committed to addressing key manufacturing challenges and providing a user-friendly, robust platform for continuous improvement.