Protected Flow Manufacturing

Another Late Order? Another Angry Customer?

Another Frustrated Production Team?

There's a reason:

Your production schedule can't keep up with production reality.

When conditions change, your schedule stops being useful. Priorities become unclear, delivery risks remain hidden, and your team is left figuring out what should run next.

LillyWorks Protected Flow Manufacturing (PFM) gives high-mix manufacturers a better way to manage production as reality changes.

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See how PFM can stop late orders and stabilize your production.

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Tailored to your production reality

Your Schedule Shows the Plan.

But Production Never Goes Exactly to Plan.

Every day, your operation deals with:

  • Shifting priorities
  • Material delays
  • Capacity constraints
  • Rush orders
  • Developing bottlenecks
  • Changing customer commitments

The result is constant expediting, frustrated employees, delayed revenue, and customers asking where their orders are.

Late orders are the symptom. The real problem is the challenging, dynamically changing reality of your production.
PFM provides the system that brings order to this chaos.

ERP runs the business. Scheduling makes the plan. But nothing manages execution in real time. That's the layer Dynamic Production Management adds.

Discover the Missing Layer
The Solution

Stop Rebuilding the Schedule.
Start Managing Production.

LillyWorks PFM is a Dynamic Production Management System built specifically for low-volume, high-mix manufacturers.

It works alongside your ERP to continuously help your team understand:

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What should run now
2
What should run next
3
Whether materials are truly ready
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Where constraints are developing
5
Which orders are at risk
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When will customers get orders?
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What happens if you add another machine or shift

Watch the video to see how PFM revolutionizes production management

Never Late is Better by Mark Lilly and Trevor Calder, book cover
From the Author

Stop Using the Wrong Tools to Manage Production

Late orders aren't a fact of life in high-mix manufacturing. They're what happens when a dynamic floor is managed with static tools. In Never Late is Better LillyWorks CEO Mark Lilly, a key creator of Protected Flow Manufacturing, shows why traditional scheduling can't keep up with production reality, and how manufacturers can stop accepting late orders as the cost of doing business.

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Proof in Practice

Success Stories

Gasbarre Products, Inc.

Learn how Protected Flow Manufacturing brought stability and predictability to Gasbarre's operations, helping them reach a year-to-date on-time delivery average of over 94%.

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Graphicast, Inc.

Learn how a switch from traditional shop floor production scheduling to PFM helped Graphicast reduce unexpected backlog and improve lead times.

Read the Graphicast story

Manes Machine

Learn how a switch from traditional shop floor scheduling to Protected Flow Manufacturing helped Manes Machine get more done than ever.

Read the Manes Machine story