With Holothread you keep track of every production activity, even when everything changes daily. You see in real time where each order stands, who is working on it and where work piles up. Holothread suggests what comes next. You decide. For job shops and contract manufacturers with many variants and small to medium batch sizes.
Runs on existing hardware. Ready in days, not months.A customer calls: they need their order sooner. Is that possible? In the ERP the order is “released”. The last booking is two days old. Nobody knows exactly where it is right now and what would have to wait. Software is not what is missing. What is missing is the link between ERP, planning and the shop floor.
The status of an order is on paper hanging somewhere in the hall. And often it is already out of date.
Anyone who wants to know where a part is has to walk over and ask.
Each area does its own detailed planning. It cannot see what is still coming from the areas upstream. So work piles up in front of hardening or QA. You only notice when the delivery date is at risk.
Times and quantities are entered in the evening. If at all. Nobody can see whether a machine is already free for the next order at noon.
With Holothread you know the answers. And many questions no longer come up at all.
See in real time→Spot potential→Get more out of machines and team
Synced from ERP or CRM, or created directly in Holothread.
With operations, drawings, CAD data, constraints and instructions. Created in minutes.
Schedule machines and staff dynamically, set priorities. Rough-cut and detailed planning across all areas.
Every workstation has all the key information, always up to date. Reporting happens right where the work is done, at a fixed terminal or on mobile.
Utilization, lead times, deviations and post-calculation. All at the push of a button.
Rough-cut and detailed planning with suggestions for machine, operator and sequence. When a rush order comes in, you see right away where there is still room.
Every workstation sees its next tasks. Report start, finish and deviations, with comment and photo. Shop floor data collection happens along the way.
The shop floor is your user interface. You see where work is waiting and which route a part takes. Even when parts from different orders are processed together as a batch, for example in hardening or vibratory finishing.
You see which orders pay off and commit to dates based on real data. Your production know-how (your DNA) lives in the system, not just in people’s heads.
Capacity dashboard by area and machine · demo data
Post-calculation per order · demo dataRough-cut and detailed planning in one live view. You see the backlog before the date is at risk. When you replan, every workstation and every employee sees it immediately.
Scheduling for machines and staff · demo dataDocumentation is created while people work. Every step with part, batch, operator and time. You report deviations with photos, documents and comments right at the step. Project managers and quality see them immediately.
Part history · demo dataYou see your next steps, the drawing, the specifications and instructions. Reporting is as easy as in a personal app. A photo of the part shows which order it belongs to.
Im Einsatz in CNC-Fräsen, Funkenerosion und additiver Fertigung. Genutzt von Leitung, Arbeitsvorbereitung, Teamleitung und Shopfloor.
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No blank, no production. No real data, no AI. Most AI projects in manufacturing do not fail because of the algorithm but because of the data. Exactly this valuable data is often missing in ERP, MES and Excel.
Every start, every report, every transfer, every deviation. Plus metadata on project, part, operations and parameters. Captured while working, with no catching up afterwards.
Organized by order, part, machine and person. Plan and actual, waiting times and routes in one place.
Photo-based part recognition is already in use. It replaces the paper traveler. On top of the process and value stream data we build optimizations for planning, cost estimation and time prediction.
First the data, then the AI. Holothread does both in one system.
Two days to go live. No machine connectivity, on existing hardware.
Align processes and workflows together. Then we set up your production in Holothread.
Onboarding and training of the pilot team.
4 to 8 weeks of pilot operation, then further areas.
Runs on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and in the browser. When your shop floor changes, you adjust the model yourself: machines, cells, roles, processes. No new IT project.
It all started with a discussion at a trade fair. The topic was software for manufacturing. Our conclusion: often too big, too complex and rarely built for the people on the shop floor. Yet apps and games show every day how easy good usability can be. That is how Holothread came about. We do not digitalize because it is trendy. Software has to pay off in everyday production.
Benedikt studied product engineering and innovation management. He then spent more than ten years in international technical sales. First motorcycle technology, then machines and production software, including at EOS and Oqton/3D Systems. Along the way he has seen more than 100 manufacturing companies from the inside. His conviction: software has to fit everyday production. Not the other way around.
More than 20 years of software development for FEM, simulation and 3D visualization, always connected to high-end precision manufacturing. PhD in physics. Co-founded and built Additive Works, acquired by 3D Systems in 2021. His conviction: today, software has to be modular, evolving and quick to adapt.
PRODUCTIONARY GmbH · Frankfurt, Germany
30 minutes. You tell us how an order is planned today and how it moves through your production. We show you what that looks like in Holothread.
No. The ERP remains your business system: quotes and orders, purchasing and inventory, master data, invoicing and accounting. Holothread takes over everything in production: planning, control and reporting at the workstation.
A classic MES is built for stable processes: high volumes, lots of automation, recurring series. It needs deep machine connectivity and often months until go-live. Holothread is the real-time layer between ERP and shop floor. Built for manufacturers with many variants and operations, where routes change daily. And where several orders share the same machines and people. Start in days, without machine connectivity. When the process changes, you adjust the model yourself.
Your ERP remains the hub for everything commercial. Holothread replaces the production functions that an ERP often covers only partly. You can also replace an existing MES module step by step. Holothread offers what is usually missing there: operation right at the workstation, partial quantities and loop-backs, a live view of the shop floor. The ERP connection runs through an open API or another data sync, for example via CSV.
No. Holothread works from day one without machine connectivity. If you want to connect machines later, that is possible too.
Holothread suggests machine, operator and sequence. Availability, suitability and qualification count. You set priorities and constraints. More than a visualization, but not an autopilot.
No. Holothread provides the data for your quality management system. Responsibility stays with you.
Yes. Every report creates value stream data from real operations instead of a one-off stopwatch study. Waiting times and bottlenecks become visible. We set up analyses for your value stream.
For series production at a fixed cycle with few, always identical operations.