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WORKFLOW
Vector Workflow runs the work inside a tool room, prototype shop or small job shop. A request comes in, it’s routed, material is gathered, the parts move through your machines with a scan at every step, and the finished job is checked and marked done. Everyone in the plant can see where their parts are, and the people you choose see what it cost.
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The problem
Engineers walk the floor or call the shop to find out. The answer is in somebody’s head, or on a whiteboard nobody can see from the office.
A part sits at the coater past its promise date and nobody notices until the bay is waiting for it.
Hours go on a sheet at the end of the week, material on another, and the estimate is never compared with either.
How it works
A new fixture, a tool repair, prototype parts, an estimate: every request follows the same path. What your plant sets up decides which steps appear.
Visibility
Whoever sent the request sees each part on it, the step and place it’s at now, and when it’s expected, worked out from the hours left on its route and any vendor’s promise date. Red means it will miss the day it’s due.
Late work
Every step has a due date from its estimate and your plant’s working days. The late list shows what’s past due, on its own page and on the shop screens, and the owner gets an email the first morning. If it stays late, their manager hears next, then the next level up, on your plant’s own timing.
Time and cost
Shop hours come straight from the scans: start to finish at each machine and bay. Engineers, designers and material control log their own time against a work order or project code. Material is costed when it’s picked or paid for. Leaders, and anyone you switch on, see it all against the estimate, by job and by project code.
See it
The same plant on every screen: the phone on the floor and in your pocket, the iPad at the bay, the web at a desk or on a shop TV. The app for iPhone and iPad is on the App Store; Android is next, and the same screens run in any browser.
Swipe or scroll for more. Every screen, step by step, is in the Help Center.
Who it's for
Design and manufacturing engineers send a request in a minute and see every part move.
Machinists, welders and assemblers scan the traveler, press one button, and see what’s next at their machine.
Shortages in due-date order, kits checked before a bay, problems routed supervisor to supervisor.
The late list, the boards, and hours against every estimate; cost too, for the people you switch on.
Nine short steps set up your buildings, teams, machines, bays, storage, vendors, request types and codes. Nothing is assumed.
Off-site buildings and vendor locations, each with its own racks and bins.
Paste the bill of materials, check the preview, done.
Stock by location, receiving, picking into kits, shortages.
Code 128 and QR on every traveler; phone cameras and plug-in scanners.
Sent to the vendor with a promise date; late ones show red.
Kit checks, one-tap CMM requests, buy-offs with invitations and attendance.
A failed part is held and routed supervisor to supervisor until it’s fixed.
The same sign-in, people and org chart as every Vector app.
Any TV shows the boards your plant picks from a display link: no sign-in, no seat.
Scan it to see what’s running there and what’s next, then start or finish once signed in.
Every machine and bay, building by building, coloured running, ready, idle or late, refreshed every minute.
Getting started
Four pages walk your plant in. We set up your plant with you, a short kickoff gets your people signed in and the first part scanned, and your admin has a checklist for the rest. Print them, or send them on to whoever needs them.
Your plant, your admin and your people, plus what makes the move easier: machines, bays, vendors and codes.
Setup sheet · PDF
45 minutes with your admin and supervisors. By the end, the first request is routed and the first part scanned.
Agenda · PDF
For everyone in the plant: sign in, send a request, find your part, and scan on the floor.
First day · PDF
For your admin: the plant, teams and supervisors, people, the rules and shop screens, and the first job.
Checklist · PDFThen the Owner's Manual, the quick card for everyone in the shop, and the Help Center.
Our why
Where’s My Part? is a short story about a tool room, a weld fixture and the one part nobody could find, told twice: once the way it usually goes, and once with every part coded and every move scanned.
Live Floor Add-on
The moment it pays off
The plant manager stops by the tool room on Thursday afternoon. Before anyone gets up, the TV by the door shows the floor map: the CMM late, the grinder idle, the lathe running the fixture block. Nobody has to stop work to explain where things are, because the room already shows it.
Add it to any band, at any site.
Tool rooms, prototype and model shops, maintenance shops and small job shops: high-mix work inside a plant or a small company, too small for a big ERP or MES system.
No. Your plant’s setup decides what appears: a one-building shop with no vendors never sees outside work.
Yes. Vector Workflow is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and runs on the web on any computer, shop-floor screen or phone browser, all on the same account. Android is next.
No. A shop-floor screen with a plug-in scanner, set to its machine, starts and finishes steps with one scan. Phones work too, with the camera.
Admins and leaders, and anyone your admin switches on. Everyone sees their own hours; costs never appear on shop screens.
Yes. Try the Demo gives you your own copy of a sample tool-and-fixture shop for 24 hours, with requests, jobs on the floor, hours and costs already in it. Nobody else sees it and it emails no one.
One price per site, counted by the people who sign in, floor staff included: from $349 a month for up to 50 people, with 30 days free. Live Floor, the add-on for shop TVs, QR codes on every machine and the live floor map, is $89 to $749 a month per site. Founding customers get 30% off for their first two years after the free trial. See the pricing.
In the Vector database, with every company walled off from the others. See our privacy policy and security page.
Thirty minutes with your own requests and machines. We’ll show you where the days are going.
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