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We made a mistake: Minutes vs Seconds
We made a mistake: Minutes vs Seconds 150 150 Jorrit Reedijk

When we were in start-up mode, we wanted to get to MVP (minimum viable product) as soon as possible. The MVP for the platform we built was to fit the particular markets and business domains where we had gathered experience with tailor-made ERP implementations and production automation. We tailored automation for production environments in steel…

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Part 4: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features
Part 4: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features 150 150 Ivan

The final installment of our features blog series discusses additional (but not all) of our platform’s functionalities. As some of you may know, our platform has been built to be simple and easy to use, while also being powered by sophisticated AI that simplifies your planning tasks by automating forecast calculations. Easy to maintain worker…

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Part 3: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features
Part 3: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features 150 150 Ivan

The third installment of our features blog series walks you through another set of our platform’s functionalities designed to make your production simpler and more effective. The first two parts of this blog started by describing the advantages of our platform and what they bring to your production. The second post in the series, which…

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Part 2: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features
Part 2: Introducing Blue Star Planning Features 150 150 Ivan

This week’s post continues to walk you through the features of our production management platform. As a reminder, in each new post, we’ll examine four specific features in further detail, describing what they are and how they would benefit your production. The first post of the series, which covered Production Process Management, Easy-to-Use Planboard, Quick…

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Introducing Blue Star Planning features
Introducing Blue Star Planning features 150 150 Ivan

Welcome to the first of a series of blog posts that will walk you through our production management platform’s features. In each post, we’ll take a closer look at a certain feature, explaining what it is, how it works, and how it may help your business. In the end, we will have summarized all of…

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Quickly simplify your production with our fast onboarding process
Quickly simplify your production with our fast onboarding process 150 150 Ivan

Managing production and meeting production demands while also ensuring workflow integration and team efficiency CAN be a challenging task. Is there an easy way to streamline your production process, automate your planning, and achieve results quickly? Our software platform is here to assist you, and our quick onboarding process is the key to getting you…

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Coming to the strategy for standardizing your production
Coming to the strategy for standardizing your production 150 150 Ivan

Standardizing your production to a high level is a goal most companies strive for. However, as many have experienced, this path is a long and complex one. Missing one of the steps to proper standardization can detour the whole process for months and even years, leading to substantial profit losses that could result possibly even…

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Do you need AI to improve your production planning?
Do you need AI to improve your production planning? 150 150 Ivan

What should I know about AI in production? Artificial intelligence, or AI, is often portrayed as a single solution to a variety of production-related issues. The fact that AI is a broad term that encompasses many different subfields, including machine learning and pattern recognition, deep learning, process automation, and many more, is frequently ignored in…

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…as sophisticated as a rocket: real-time data and analytics for continuous improvement
…as sophisticated as a rocket: real-time data and analytics for continuous improvement 150 150 Jorrit Reedijk

In our previous blogpost we discussed the implementation process of our planning and scheduling platform and how we use technology to keep an extremely small implementation footprint. This time, we’ll go into our third and fourth implementation steps will and what they bring to your production, as well as the benefits of full implementation of…

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As easy as 1-2-3: simple steps for onboarding
As easy as 1-2-3: simple steps for onboarding 150 150 Ivan

As easy as 1-2-3 Implementing a new software platform should always be a process that can be divided into smaller steps and implementing Blue Star Planning’s custom-tailored and secure platform is certainly no different and has a really low implementation footprint. The steps to implement complete production automation (these steps we call pillars of optimization)…

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