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FactoryFour Reviews & Product Details

FactoryFour Product Details

Manufacturing execution system rebuilt around a modern technology stack. No more inflexible systems, endless implementations, and ridiculous fees for bad software. Experience highly customizable, simple to use, and quick to deploy manufacturing management solutions that increase predictability, productivity, and profit.

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FactoryFour

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English

Product Description

Easily configure workflows as complex or simple as you want, and start tracking work orders as they move along the floor in real-time.

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Param Shah

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FactoryFour Demo - Real-Time Workflow Tracking

Use customizable workflows to execute and track your production in real-time. Gather real-time data on the progress of each order, and track with multiple workflows when required.

FactoryFour Demo - Track Operators Working on Particular Orders in Real-Time

Using tablets, barcode scanners, or RFID, FactoryFour captures real-time data on who is working on what tasks at what time. This provides granular event timestamp data as well as real-time visibility to managers.

FactoryFour Demo - Capture Quality Data and Other Information In-Line

Enforce capture of data such as quality metrics or approvals during your processes using task forms. Display work instructions for a task, provide a checklist, or add error validation to make sure people adhere to quality standards.

Filter orders by task type, technician, station and more. Monitor progress and take action from real-time task dashboards.

FactoryFour Demo - Custom Data Analytics Dashboards

FactoryFour automatically gathers data such as timestamps on task completion, technician efficiency, error rates, and more. Create custom dashboards and analytics reports to uncover new insights about your business, such as downtimes and labor costs involved in producing your product.

FactoryFour Demo - Configure Your System with Ease

Our Admin tools allow you to easily configure workflows, forms, automatic rules, and more in seconds.

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Raakesh B.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/13/2019

"Factory Four Deployment/Usage - Small scale"

4/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

- Utilization of a semi clean interface to display data.

- Creation of tracibility, user defined data is manageable.

- Future scale of using data for other manufacturing areas has potential.

- Usage of clean dashboarding to provide easy access to data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Interface though very clean, is cumbersome and has tendencies to reload

Not as intuitve for developers/designers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

System designed more for offices/job shops than true manufacturing. Needs work in that area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lots of development discoveries and identified many areas that needed improvement. Due to this work, many features in Factory Four were more usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Noel M.

Business Development Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2019

"Simply put, you have to see this."

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

Flexibility - With over 18 years of experience evaluating/recommending/implementing software systems, FactoryFour is the most flexible and configurable Work-In-Process (WIP) platform I have seen. It can be precisely tailored to meet the needs of various users within your organization and provides a granular level of detail about the activities taking place within an operation. If you're in the market for a WIP system, do the right thing and make sure you evaluate FactoryFour. You will NOT be disappointed. We've facilitated evaluation cycles with several customers looking to incorporate a WIP system with the barcoding and RFID technologies that we specialize in and they have all been impressed with the capabilities that FactoryFour offers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Nothing - FactoryFour meets or exceeds the needs of any company/organization looking to implement a Work-In-Process system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

Be sure to take the time to sit through a personalized demo for your team so that you can see the FactoryFour platform in action and understand how it will fit your operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

Several of our customers have selected FactoryFour to help them gain control of their unique manufacturing processes. FactoryFour has helped with tracking consumption of raw materials, quality controls/inspections, tracking materials and activity across very complex and varied assembly/manufacturing/shop floors, seamlessly integrated with existing ERP systems, and much more. Along with FactoryFour, we have helped enable integrated RFID (and barcode) capabilities for these customers to allow them to become even more efficient, accurate, and connected! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fiore D.

Executive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/8/2019

"Fantastic product for tracking production processes and great customer service."

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

We use FactoryFour to intake and place work order into production and then manage the production process. It's very easy to customize the forms to intake work orders, and from there you can actually see a workflow that tells you the steps to production. If there is a process problem it will automatically tell the right people to address it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

The solution is very well rounded and there isn't anything in particular that I don't like. You need to make sure to dedicate resources from your team to make sure implementation goes smoothly, as you should for all process software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using FactoryFour to process work orders and manage the production process. Overall, we've seen increased efficiency in production, and a more enhanced customer experience. Customers are submitting orders with less errors, and have more flexibility in the options they have. We receive the orders right into production and can track all of our processes in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Donald P.

CEO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/2/2019

"Every manufacturer needs good data to make the best decisions. FactoryFour provides this and more."

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

FactoryFour fills a major gap that all manufacturing businesses have: understanding the production floor in real-time. They also give you the one insight that no manufacturer truly knows: the labor cost associated with making a product. With FactoryFour set up on your production floor, you can automatically gather data on all your processes. From this data you can build your own insights to understand labor cost, downtime, technician productivity, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

FactoryFour is a very focused product, making it a best-in-class for production execution and visibility. You will need other systems to manage your inventory, accounting, etc. however FactoryFour has an integration infrastructure that can integrate seamlessly into these other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

If you’re a company with more than 15 operators on the floor, you should seriously be considering a system to start tracking production. FactoryFour is the most advanced and easy to use in my opinion. Tracking production will improve your business, increase your profit, and enhance your customer’s experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me personally, it’s crucial to understand the cost of making a single product unit. FactoryFour gave me that insight and more. I’ve been able to optimize my production processes and make better business decisions that are backed by data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Assaf R.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/17/2019

"Significantly improved our manufacturing processes without disrupting our existing systems."

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

We were already using SAP to manage our business prior to bringing in FactoryFour. We had invested a lot in SAP and it was handling our inventory and billing, however it was not flexible enough to handle our custom manufacturing processes. FactoryFour was very flexible, integrating with SAP instead of replacing it, and allowing us to manage every manufacturing process uniquely and the way we wanted. We used it to manage our manufacturing from beginning to end, pulling in order data from customers all the way to tracking the product during production and shipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Configuring some of the integrations and rules required working very closely with the FactoryFour team. While their team is very responsive and gets the job done, we wanted more admin tools to be able to configure some of the things ourselves. Over time we've seen them make more admin tools to make it more and more self-service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

Many people feel "stuck" with the systems they already have in place and feel like they can't afford to improve their systems or try out new things. FactoryFour is made to integrate and improve your processes, not replace them. Don't be afraid to try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to take in custom order data from customers all over the world through our own application. We then took that order data and pushed it to production to manufacture each custom product. FactoryFour integrated with our application to pull the data and tracked each individual unique product through production to shipping so we knew exactly where a particular customer's order was. We reduced errors in production, greatly reduced lead time, and improved customer satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Renee R.

Account Manager

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/12/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Very configurable software backed by a very agile and responsive support team"

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

FactoryFour is a highly configurable software that flexes to your business processes unlike other of the shelf WIP solutions out there. It is as close to custom software as you could get without the price tag. FactoryFour team is continuously working to advance their software based on the feedback of their users. They are very responsive, and fast acting. They go above and beyond fto delight their customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Nothing comes to mind, because F4 is constantly improving and very open to feedback and requests. For instance, we needed a way to format labels and the FactoryFour team built in functionality into their software within a couple of weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CW

Verified User in Warehousing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/13/2019

"WIP Software "

4.5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

The two factors that set FactoryFour apart and create the most impactful value for my customers are its ability to handle custom workflows and its user-friendly, modern interface. I have yet to see a WIP software that balances both of these components and also presents the best options for reporting and actionable data aggregation. Whether traditional barcoding or RFID, FactoryFour is the most flexible solution for solving manufacturing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Thus far, FactoryFour has been a capable and winning partner for my requirements and my customers. Everyone seems impressed with the UI and the deliverables. If anything, the number of workflows and options available COULD be overwhelming, if not for the expertise of the FactoryFour team in making it all digestible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

We utilize FactoryFour when our customers are looking to be more efficient and accurate in tracking their manufacturing/WIP processes. Regardless of the hardware technology, I am confident in FactoryFour's ability to track custom workflows and processes, provide a valuable and workable interface, and deliver the best reporting/data to our end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jeff C.

President

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/16/2019

"Accessing new market opportunities with Factory Four!"

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

Ability to create solutions to meet market needs. Destroying manual processes with technology and digital solutions. Nimble and quick to develop and deploy. Accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Our team cant work fast enough to keep up with demand to further develop the platform to meet our customers needs. FF developers and my team meet almost daily as we work to build these solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

Think broadly about what you can accomplish on this platform. We continue to find ways to develop and work toward new market opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our unique opportunity is the automation of the supply chain for custom prosthetic and orthotic medical devices. From patient assessment to fabrication and delivery, the solution we developed with Factory Four facilitates the workflow and eliminates nearly all manual processes. We have opened up a new market inside of a market we have served for the last 40 years with 30%+ upside for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Zachary L.

Sales Manager

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2019

"Game Changing Software for Work In Process (WIP) Applications"

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

FactoryFour provides a superior platform for providing organizations with a work in process (WIP) software application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

Nothing - FactoryFour is a great software package available at an affordable price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kenneth C.

Member Board of Advisors

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/21/2019

"Next Generation Work in Process Software "

5/5

What do you like best about FactoryFour?

FactoryFour is a modern software that is built from the ground up to be intuitive to use and for humans to interact with. For work-in-process (WIP) tracking, it's the best thing you can get on the market right now. It's customizable and flexible, enabling you to manage multiple different WIP scenarios. It also integrates with virtually any device for data input. We integrate barcoding and RFID systems with FactoryFour to automate the tracking process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FactoryFour?

There is nothing that I have seen yet to dislike. FactoryFour is a rapidly growing company, and while there product is good right now, we expect it will continue to improve in the future with new features and integrations. We have engaged FactoryFour with multiple customers of ours because there is no better option for WIP and Process Automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FactoryFour:

Ask to set up a realistic and feasible POC. You should be delighted with any enterprise software purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FactoryFour solving and how is that benefiting you?

We offer hardware and software solutions to our clients, primarily involving barcoding and RFID. Work-in-process tracking is something that many businesses need. We have been able to deliver a fit to purpose WIP and Process Automation solution with FactoryFour that usually delivers ROI in less than a quarter with superior reporting and inherent decision support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.