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Manufacturing intelligence
Know your real capacity before you commit to the next order.
For steel fabricators and manufacturing job shops. Insight One turns the production data you already have (ERP and production exports, timesheets, spreadsheets) into a clear view of capacity, utilization, bottlenecks and production risk, with what-if scenarios before you decide.
What you get
Four answers from one view of your production data.
Your exports are mapped to one standard layout, checked for quality, then analysed. Start with the question that costs you the most. Results come as dashboards and exports, and can feed Power BI or the reporting tool you already use.
01 · CAPACITY
Capacity & utilization
See available, used and remaining hours by work center, shift and week, instead of estimating from experience.
- Utilization and downtime by work center and shift
- Remaining capacity before each due date
- Throughput and jobs completed, week by week
Typical inputs: production or timesheet exports, a shift calendar.
02 · CONSTRAINTS
Bottleneck & downtime intelligence
Find the work center that limits throughput, and what is eating its time, before it turns into overtime or a missed ship date.
- The primary constraint, with a plain-language reason
- Downtime by cause and its trend
- Work center and shift comparison
Typical inputs: run time, downtime and reason codes by work center.
03 · FORECAST
Production forecasting
Expected load against available hours for the coming weeks, with a likely range instead of a single guess.
- Weekly load versus capacity by work center
- Weeks at risk flagged early enough to act
- Ranges that show how certain the forecast is
Typical inputs: several months of history, open orders or recent pace.
04 · WHAT-IF
Scenario testing
Test a change before you make it, and see where the constraint moves next.
- An extra operator, shift or overtime
- Reduced downtime at the constraint
- Moving suitable work between cells
Typical inputs: the same data as the forecast, no extra work.
Who it's for
Built for plants that plan in spreadsheets.
Structural and miscellaneous steel fabricators, metal job shops, machining and assembly plants. If two or more of these sound familiar, a Manufacturing Data Assessment is worth 30 minutes.
- You run make-to-order or job-shop production across many work centers.Where is work waiting right now, and for how long?
- Your data lives in an ERP or production system, plus a lot of Excel.Which version of the backlog is the right one?
- Quoting and scheduling depend on a few experienced people.Can we take this order and still ship everything else on time?
- You want answers without a long IT project.Can we see something useful in weeks, not months? Yes, starting from the exports you already have.
Example output · Synthetic data
What a first assessment shows.
Shown on a synthetic fabrication plant built for demonstration. No customer or employer data is used anywhere on this site.
What you send
- One or two production exports: ERP, MES, timesheet or spreadsheet, with whatever column names you already use.
- Or the free Insight One data template, if you prefer to start clean.
- Ideally 8 to 13 weeks of history.
What you see
- A Data Quality Score, and which gaps matter.
- Utilization and downtime by work center and shift.
- The likely primary constraint, and why.
- The next weeks of load against capacity.
What happens next
If the result is useful, a focused pilot on one question with your team. If the data is not ready, a straight answer on what to capture first. See the live demo →
How it works
Small first step. Useful result. Then decide.
No large up-front project. Your data stays yours, exportable any time.
- STEP 1
Data assessment
Share one or two production exports through a private upload link, never by email. In 30 minutes we show what they can already answer about capacity and constraints.
- STEP 2
First capacity view
Your data mapped to a standard layout, a Data Quality Score, and a first view of utilization, downtime and the likely constraint.
- STEP 3
Focused pilot
One question your team cares about, answered on your real data over a few weeks, with forecasts and what-if scenarios.
- STEP 4
Ongoing use
Refresh with new exports, keep the dashboards and exports, and extend to the next question when it pays.
Contact
Tell us which decision is hardest to make today.
Tell us the decision first. Please do not email files: we agree which export helps, send you a private upload link, and in 30 minutes show what your data can already answer about capacity and constraints.
Prefer email? info@insightonetech.com