Factora – Production Floor & Inventory Operations Automation
Production floor & inventory operations automation
Production operations platform for regulated manufacturers — visual work-order scheduler with constraint checks, real-time raw material and WIP tracking with auto-drafted POs, tablet-based shop-floor downtime logging, and one-click ISO 9001, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, IATF, and RoHS compliance reports. Built in 14 weeks.
Production schedules built in Excel conflict mid-shift. Raw material stock-outs halt lines because reorder triggers live in someone's head. And at audit time, a small team scrambles through spreadsheets and email for weeks. GroveTech built Factora in 14 weeks for a regulated mid-market manufacturer: a production operations platform with a Gantt scheduler that enforces material and machine constraints, real-time WIP and stock tracking with auto-drafted POs, tablet-based downtime logging with reason codes, and one-click compliance reports backed by a tamper-evident audit trail.
Run the floor. Pass the audit. No spreadsheets required.
The Problem
- Production scheduling done in Excel; conflicts between work orders found mid-shift.
- Raw material stock-outs halt lines because reorder triggers live in someone's head.
- Downtime causes captured on paper logs — no visibility for plant management.
- ISO 9001 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 reports take weeks to compile at audit time.
Our Solution
- Visual production scheduler with constraint checks for resources and material availability.
- Real-time raw material and WIP tracking with reorder triggers and auto-drafted POs.
- Tablet-based downtime logging on the shop floor with reason codes and Pareto reports.
- One-click compliance reports with full electronic-record audit trail.
Built on a solid, integration-first foundation.
Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
AWS
Auth0
DockerA look inside the Factora platform.
4 core workflows — built to run automatically, end to end.
Production Scheduler
Visual Gantt for every line and resource — constraint checks flag material shortages and machine clashes before the shift starts.
Raw Material & WIP Tracking
Live stock for raw materials and work-in-progress — reorder points calculated from sell-through and supplier lead time, with auto-drafted POs.
Downtime Logging
Operators log stops and reasons on a shop-floor tablet — Pareto reports show the real causes of lost minutes, every shift, every week.
Compliance Reports
One-click ISO 9001, FDA Part 11, IATF, REACH, and RoHS reports backed by a tamper-evident audit trail — audits go from weeks of prep to hours.
Numbers from post-launch.
What's coming next on the roadmap.
What our client had to say.
Before Factora, the week before an ISO audit was chaos — a small team scrambling for records across spreadsheets and email. Now we run live. Production schedules respect material availability, downtime gets logged on the floor, and every compliance report is one click away. Our last audit took half a day instead of two weeks.
Andrea Brückner
Plant Manager · [Mid-market manufacturer under NDA · DE]
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