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Manufacturing & print farms

Production printing, with the paperwork taken care of.

Order numbers stay on the job from upload to shipping bench. Printers get their next job as soon as they're cleared. And when a part fails, you know where, on what, and how often.

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Printers
Every printer in the fleet with its current part, status and progress

What gets hard

More printers means more handoffs, and more places for work to stall.

Idle time between jobs

A printer finishes and waits, because the next job is still in someone's inbox or head.

Failures found late

Nobody notices the spaghetti until the shift change, and the reprint starts from nothing.

Parts that lose their order

The print is done, but which order was it for, and who's picking it up?

Dispatch

The next job goes out when the plate comes off.

Approved jobs wait in one queue. As soon as a printer is cleared, it gets the next job it can run, with deadlines and priority deciding the order. Nobody walks the floor to find an idle machine.

  • Matching on model, loaded material and site
  • Earlier deadlines go first
  • Printers down for service get no new work
Queue
The print queue, with jobs waiting for approval and the active queue below

On the floor

Problems show up where people are standing.

A kiosk by the printers shows every machine, with errors in plain language on the printer's own card. Resume, stop, clear or take a printer down without walking to a desk.

  • Readable printer errors, not vendor codes
  • Pause, resume and stop from the kiosk
  • Downtime with a reason, and a history
Station
The kiosk showing printer cards, including one paused because filament ran out

Reporting

Throughput and utilization, per printer.

See jobs per day by outcome, utilization and OEE for every printer, and material by type. Filter by site, printer or project, and take the numbers to your cost model.

  • Utilization and OEE per printer and site
  • Failure rate by printer and material
  • Material and machine time per job
Analytics
Utilization and OEE bars for each printer over 30 days

Also included

What production teams use next.

  • Custom fields for order, customer or work center
  • Rush priority and deadlines
  • One-click reprints from the original job
  • Pickup bins, labels and scan-out
  • Bambu Lab and Formlabs in one queue
  • API keys for your own integrations
  • Roles for operators, leads and managers
  • Self-hosted or air-gapped deployment

Before you start

Worth deciding before you roll it out.

What ties a job to an order
Pick the identifiers that already exist in your system, and make them required fields on submission.
How priority works
Deadlines handle most of it. Keep manual priority for real exceptions, so the order stays predictable.
Your cost model
Pluraprint records material and machine time. Decide how labor, failures and idle time are counted before you quote from it.
Unattended running
Lights-out needs a safety policy and a plan for part removal. The queue can handle its side once those are in place.

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Show us where work gets stuck.

Tell us your fleet, your volume and your deadlines. We'll walk through how Pluraprint handles them.

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