Get real-time visibility into your production bottlenecks
Pilot schedules production across your workstations, tracks the administrative work around it, and shows you where work is piling up, whether it stays in-house or goes to a partner lab.
- Unlimited users
- Self-serve setup, or our team
Production schedules
Industry-leading production schedule builder
Pilot builds production schedules from your product templates, technician capacity, workstation settings and more.
- Run steps in parallel where the work allows
- Assign work automatically, or by hand
- Production milestones that keep cases on track
Seq 2 · parallel
Seq 3
Design
AutomaticMilling
Automatic3D Printing
Manual PullStain & Glaze
Manual PushOperational reporting
Detect bottlenecks before they become a problem
See how much work is waiting at each station compared with what it can handle, how much each technician has on their plate, and which cases are late or about to be.
- Work waiting at each station, against its capacity
- How much each technician has on their plate
- What is late or at risk, day by day
The slowest workstation is Stain & Glaze. It can get through about 70 cases a week, so that is all the lab can deliver, whatever the others could do.
Cases a week Flow delivers 70
- Stain & GlazeBottleneck100% busy55m/case · 64 h/wk
- MillingNear the limit87% busy30m/case · 40 h/wk
- 3D PrintingIdle capacity55% busy15m/case · 32 h/wk
- DesignIdle capacity44% busy30m/case · 80 h/wk
About 9 more technician hours a week at Stain & Glaze, or a case taking 13% less time there, would lift the lab to about 80 cases a week. Then Milling becomes the bottleneck.
Kanban view
Break the work down any way you want
Group the board by technician, workstation, task or task status. Drag a card to move or reassign it, and spot an overloaded station at a glance. No whiteboard to keep up to date.
- Group by technician, workstation, task or status
- Drag and drop to move or reassign work
- Late and at-risk cards stand out
More in Work Tracking
Other work tracking features
Track non-production work
Exception tasks and administrative work sit next to production, each with task states that fit how your team works.
Outsourcing
Send a case or a single step to a partner lab, and it drops back into your schedule when it returns.
Task SLAs
Set a target time for each step, and get a heads-up before a task runs late.
Technician kiosk
A simple screen at the bench where technicians scan work in and out, so the schedule stays current without anyone typing updates.
QC fails
When work fails QC, reopen the task, fail it and redo it, or move the case back to an earlier step. Every fail is recorded and the schedule follows.
Tasks linked to conversations
If a task involves talking to the customer, link it to the conversation so the answer is one click away.
See Work Tracking with your own cases.
Talk to our team and we will walk through it on a lab like yours, then help you set it up.
- Unlimited users
- Every module on one case record
- Self-serve setup, or our team