Volume 13: Project Management & Manufacturing, a Perfect Match
Project management is versatile. It’s a practice with developed techniques that help with planning, estimating and controlling activities. Any industry with processes that have a beginning and end with a deliverable can benefit from project management.
In particular, manufacturing teams can benefit by using project management software to streamline activities, reduce waste and deliver quality products to the market faster.
Free Resources for Manufacturing Teams
Let’s look at a handful of free project management resources that you can start using today. Take them out for a test drive and you’ll quickly see how valuable they can be in improving your day-to-day manufacturing operations. Then we’ll give you a chance to upgrade by trying ProjectManager for free.
The ability to effectively plan your resources is essential in manufacturing. When are your production workers available? What jobs are they handling? By creating a precise production schedule, you can reduce costs and increase productivity. Our free resource plan template for Excel can be customized to fit your particular production cycle and what it is you’re producing.
It includes a list of your resources, such as the people on your production line, and their individual tasks. The cost for the total effort is captured and there’s a monthly calendar (though you can plan the whole year) to schedule the planned hours for each day. If you over-assign hours, that cell turns red. This allows for accurate resource forecasting while keeping your team working at capacity.
Once you have a product and the production team is ready to manufacture it, you don’t want to neglect getting that product to your target audience. Simply use our free template, which puts you into our software for a free trial. Now you have access to our multiple project views so you can plan the launch on our robust Gantt charts and toggle over to the kanban board for a visual workflow to track the product launch across its phases.
Our software can be customized to reflect your product launch, but all the data is displayed in real time across project views. You can even see everyone’s assignments on one page and add filters to get more detail.
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If you want more deep reading on the subject, then download our free 2023 Project Management eBook for Manufacturing. There are chapters on manufacturing processes, capacity and demand planning, supply chain management, manufacturing resource planning and manufacturing project management software options.
It’s an informative look at how project management principles can be applied to manufacturing to help you run a more effective production line.
Rider Shell is an Australian-based startup that manufactures protective gear for motorcycle riders. Read our case study of how this small startup benefits from using ProjectManager, which is both powerful and easy to use.
While other manufacturing software solutions focused on one or another aspect of work, Rider Shell found that ProjectManager delivered a full suite of project management tools that worked together to enhance collaboration and control of all their design, manufacturing and testing processes.
Our project management software for manufacturing teams can help you reduce lead time while maintaining the quality of your product that your customers expect. Get more details on our powerful tools, such as task lists, dashboards and unlimited file storage that work together to add efficiencies to your manufacturing processes. Our secure software has timesheets to track time and streamline payroll, automation with task approval settings to free production from busywork and much more.
ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that helps plan, manage and track your manufacturing processes. Our task management, resource management and risk management features help you deliver quality products on time and within budget. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.
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