Industry & trades

Shift planning app for production managers in mechanical engineering with 40 staff across two shifts: employee master data with qualifications, holiday requests and swap rules, producing a monthly plan with fairly distributed night and late shifts. The software checks every shift sequence against the eleven-hour rest period required by working time law and against maximum working hours, flagging conflicts before the plan is posted. If the late shift ends on Friday at 10 pm and the early shift starts on Monday at 6 am, a warning with a suggested fix appears at exactly that point. Result: notice board sheet and weekly overview as PDF.

Maintenance planner for the maintenance team at a plastics plant with twelve injection moulding machines running three shifts: machine master data with photo, nameplate, service intervals in operating hours and the matching spare parts list. Open, due and overdue jobs appear in a list sorted by due date. The hour readings are entered once a month, after which the app calculates the remaining runtime until the next hour-based service and creates a job with the required parts five weeks in advance. Result: service record and spare parts demand as PDF.

Delivery note generator for the dispatch desk of a freight forwarder handling eight to twelve deliveries a day: customers, articles and packaging units are maintained once, while only quantities and routes are entered daily. Every note carries a sequential number, the loading weight and a reference to the matching batch. A clean PDF is printed for the driver, plus a QR code through which the recipient confirms acceptance on their phone. The status in the office switches to confirmed immediately, with no call to the driver. Result: archived delivery notes and a signed proof of delivery as PDF.

Job management for an independent car workshop with four lifts: jobs are created with plate number, customer, vehicle, scope of work and photos, then moved by drag and drop across a kanban board between Booked in, In progress, Waiting for parts and Ready. Ordered spare parts hang off the job, so it stays visible which vehicle is waiting for which part. Each plate number gets a status page with progress and a pickup notice, so customers no longer need to call. Result: daily list, workshop sheet and ready-for-pickup note as PDF.

Construction schedule for site managers in shell construction with three parallel projects: tasks are created with duration, trade and predecessors, producing a bar chart across the whole construction period. When a task finishes late, all dependent trades shift automatically and the critical path is recalculated. For every subcontractor the app generates a weekly lookahead of the next seven days as a PDF and sends the release link. Result: schedule overview, subcontractor lookahead and delay log as export.

Pre-trip inspection for the manager of a civil engineering fleet with fourteen vehicles: before setting off, each driver ticks off lights, tyres, brakes and warning equipment on their phone and confirms the check with a timestamp. Defects are photographed and land directly with the fleet manager instead of in a paper tray. A defect reported a second time is automatically escalated to the workshop as urgent. Result: inspection-ready records, defect list and PDF export per vehicle and month.

Quote generator for an electrical contracting business with six fitters: items and quantities are picked from an article catalogue, while material markup, hourly rate and small parts are calculated by the app from stored factors. Markup, rate and validity period appear as text on the quote so the customer can follow the calculation. For a repeat customer the app automatically compares with the previous quote and highlights changed items and the price difference. Result: send-ready PDF with a version stored in the quote archive.

Inventory app for the warehouse of a beverage wholesaler with around three hundred items, from water crates to speciality beer: items are created with unit, supplier, minimum stock and best-before date, and incoming and outgoing movements are captured in a few taps. Pallet locations and supplier sit on the item, so a stand-in can reorder too. When stock drops below the minimum or a best-before date falls within four weeks, the app warns and proposes the batch with the oldest date first, keeping FIFO order. Result: stock list and reorder suggestion as PDF.

Energy dashboard for the technical management of a metal finishing plant with three electroplating lines: quarter-hour values from the main meter are recorded and broken down per line, together with the readings of the sub-distribution boards. Trend curves over day, week, month and year show which line drives consumption and how large the grid fee share is. When the current quarter-hour value is about to exceed the highest peak of the year, the dashboard warns early enough to switch one line off for a moment. Result: monthly report and load profile as PDF.

Briefing app for the occupational safety specialist at a construction company with eighty employees across changing sites: a briefing is created with topic, content, deadline and participant list, every employee receives a link or QR code by text message and confirms the content on their phone with a tap. The app records who read which version and when, and reminds open confirmations automatically after three days. At an inspection, all evidence is findable for each employee, including colleagues who have since moved to another site. Result: briefing protocol and attendance record as archived PDF.

Appointment planner for the service desk of a master car workshop: the weekly view shows free slots per day and per lift, and appointments are entered with customer, plate number, service and estimated duration. The system knows standard times per service, roughly one hour for a tyre change, and prevents double booking of the same lift. A text message reminder goes out automatically the day before, and when a customer cancels, the freed slot is offered to waiting customers immediately. Result: daily plan, appointment confirmation and utilisation overview as PDF.

Test protocol app for the master electrician during repeat testing of portable appliances under VDE 0701 and 0702: device, tester, measuring instrument and next test date are captured up front, then protective conductor resistance, insulation resistance and leakage current are typed straight into the form. Every value is compared immediately with the permissible limit from the standard, limit violations appear in red and a device in the dangerous range is marked for decommissioning. Result: test sticker, device history and complete PDF protocol per test run.

Production dashboard for the management of a furniture plant with three kitchen furniture lines: output, good parts, scrap and downtime are captured per line and shift, and overall equipment effectiveness is calculated from availability, performance and quality. Instead of copying logs on Monday, the traffic light per line sits live on the monitor. The surprisingly useful detail is one-click downtime capture: when a machine stops, the operator taps a reason such as changeover, material shortage or fault, and the duration runs automatically. Result: shift report and Pareto of downtime reasons as PDF.

Certificate generator for quality management at a precision engineering business supplying turned and milled parts to customers who require certificates: customer, drawing number, batch, inspection characteristics and measured values are captured once, and a complete inspection certificate under DIN EN 10204 is produced as a PDF in an always identical layout. The app checks tolerance limits per characteristic itself and marks deviating values in the certificate. All certificates also sit in a register searchable by customer, drawing and batch, so no evidence disappears into the wrong folder during an audit. Result: certificate PDF, register export and status overview.