Introduction
Production Follow-Up helps manufacturers keep track of what’s happening in the manufacturing processes in real time. It shows the progress of production orders, machine status, and operator activities, so teams can quickly spot issues and make better decisions. With easy-to-use dashboards and automatic time tracking, Production Follow-Up makes it easier to manage production and improve efficiency.
Key Usage Scenario’s
- Monitor production order progress in real time with visual dashboards.
- Track machine status changes and downtime reasons for every operation.
- Automatically record and analyze time spent on each production step using Time Entries.
- Identify and respond quickly to delays, bottlenecks, or overconsumption with clear alerts.
- Compare shift performance and output across work centers for continuous improvement.
- Easily split production orders when production plans change.
Supported Editions
This app supports the Essential and Premium editions of Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Supported Countries
All countries where Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is available.
Supported Languages
Dutch, English, French, Portuguese.
Requirements
- Only Released Production Orders with routing lines are tracked.
- Machine Status control is available only for manual flushing methods.
- Machine Status transitions are logged into Time Entries for audit and analytics purposes and do not impact production order costing.
- By configuration it is possible to post machine status transactions as capacity ledger entries.