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The core purpose of FACTIVITY is to make the factory floor visible to management in real time — not just at the end of a shift or after reports are compiled. As jobs move through production, FACTIVITY tracks each one: queue time waiting for a work center, setup time, run time, scrap, downtime, and completion into finished goods. Supervisors see a live view of every job on every machine. Management sees OEE dashboards, labor accountability summaries, and KPI charts. Customer service can look up where any open order stands. Maintenance can see the production schedule before planning downtime. All of this visibility exists as a natural byproduct of operators using the system — not from additional measurement or reporting effort.

FACTIVITY is designed to extend the ERP to the factory floor, not to replace it. The ERP remains the system of record for orders, BOMs, routings, and financials. FACTIVITY controls the execution of the ERP plan on the floor — dispatching work, capturing labor and production data, and feeding results back to the ERP automatically through backflushing and real-time updates. FACTIVITY has pre-built integrations with QAD, SAP, Navision, Baan, BPICS, and other standard ERP systems, as well as the ability to configure integrations for legacy and custom environments. The connection is bidirectional: work orders and BOMs flow from the ERP into FACTIVITY, and production actuals flow back.

FACTIVITY produces a complete set of management KPIs in real time — overall OEE both live and as historical analytics, performance by machine and work center with drill-down to specific resources, downtime and scrap summarized and broken down by reason code, labor time performance and accountability by shift, and Part Flow Analysis that identifies queue buildup and bottleneck operations. All KPI data is available in charts and detail reports, and can be exported directly to Excel. Reports can be customized using FACTIVITY's built-in report writer without programming, and delivered electronically to any floor station at the touch of a button.

FACTIVITY provides the data infrastructure that makes continuous improvement measurable rather than anecdotal. Because every job is tracked through every routing step, the system generates a complete picture of where time is being consumed, where variability is highest, and where scrap and downtime are concentrated. This data feeds directly into lean manufacturing and Kaizen activities — identifying which operations warrant improvement focus and providing a baseline to measure against after changes are made. The Documents Module supports this further by enabling quality data capture templates that record process parameters at the work center, building a dataset for statistical process control and root cause analysis.

Yes. FACTIVITY includes multi-plant data warehouse functionality that consolidates KPI and production data across facilities, allowing manufacturers to compare performance between plants and identify best practices. The system is used in 16 countries and has been deployed in multi-plant configurations across diverse manufacturing environments. Plant-level and cross-plant reporting are both available, so management can drill into a single facility's performance or view a consolidated picture across the operation.