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Excel tools for turning orders into a production plan you can run: machine and line capacity, changeover losses and a weekly schedule with a Gantt view.

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Changeover Time Calculator / Setup & Cleaning Planner – main listing imageProduction Planning

Changeover Time Calculator / Setup & Cleaning Planner

The SmartFactoryTools Changeover & Setup Planner is a practical Excel template designed for manufacturing teams that need to understand how much production time is consumed by cleaning, setup and product changeovers. Enter your machines, products and standard changeover rules, then arrange your SKUs in production sequence. The template automatically identifies when cleaning, setup, or both are required between consecutive products. It also converts planned non-production time into an estimated production capacity impact, helping you see how changeovers affect your available shift time.

€7.99

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Line Capacity Planner – main listing imageProduction Planning

Line Capacity Planner

Turn your production orders into a clear line-by-line capacity plan. Enter your production orders, assign each order to a production line, add demand quantities, production rates, setup time, changeover time and other planned losses — the workbook automatically calculates the required hours for each order and summarizes the total workload by production line. Quickly see which lines have spare capacity and which lines are becoming bottlenecks before the production plan is released.

€7.99

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Machine Capacity Calculator – main listing imageProduction Planning

Machine Capacity Calculator

Quickly check whether your machines have enough available time for planned production. Enter your required quantity, machine speed, available hours, setup time, changeover time and downtime — the template automatically calculates required hours, utilization and overload risk. Designed for production planners, supervisors, operations managers and small manufacturing teams that need a simple capacity planning tool without complex software.

€7.99

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Manufacturing Capacity Planner – main listing imageProduction Planning

Manufacturing Capacity Planner

Plan your daily production capacity, identify bottlenecks, and check whether your production plan fits your available machine time before the shift starts. This Excel template goes beyond a simple Quantity ÷ Speed calculation. It includes real manufacturing constraints such as cleaning/changeovers, machine setup time, pallet handling, packaging changes, startup, shutdown, planned stops, and product-specific delays.

€19.99

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Weekly Production Schedule & Gantt Planner – main listing imageProduction Planning

Weekly Production Schedule & Gantt Planner

Put your orders in sequence on each line – Excel calculates the start and end time of every order, draws an hour-by-hour Gantt chart and shows which orders will be late.

€19.99

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Daily Operator Assignment Board – main listing imageWorkforce & Shifts

Daily Operator Assignment Board

The right person on every position, every shift – an Excel operator assignment board that proposes the line-up from who is present and what they are qualified to do.

€17.99

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Manpower Requirement Calculator – main listing imageWorkforce & Shifts

Manpower Requirement Calculator

Calculate how many people your production plan actually requires and quickly identify staffing shortages, balanced areas and surplus manpower. Enter your workload, labor productivity, minimum crew requirements and currently planned people. The workbook automatically calculates required labor hours, required headcount and staffing gaps for each production line, department or operation. Designed for production planners, supervisors, manufacturing managers and operations teams that need a fast and practical workforce planning tool.

€7.99

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Manufacturing Cost per Unit Calculator – main listing imageOperations Reporting

Manufacturing Cost per Unit Calculator

Enter your material prices, products and recipes – Excel calculates the real cost of one unit, the margin of every product and the price you need for your target margin.

€9.99

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Material Requirements Planner – main listing imageInventory & Materials

Material Requirements Planner

Enter your production plan, bills of materials, stock and open purchase orders – Excel calculates what to order, how much and in which week, 12 weeks ahead, with lead times, minimum order quantities and pack sizes.

€17.99

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Multi-Level Product Costing – main listing imageOperations Reporting

Multi-Level Product Costing

Enter your raw-material prices, processing stages and recipes – Excel rolls every stage, yield and loss into the real cost of one unit, the margin of every product and the price you need for your target margin.

€17.99

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Pallet Calculator & Truck Load Estimator – main listing imageInventory & Materials

Pallet Calculator & Truck Load Estimator

How many cases fit on a pallet, how many pallets is this order – and roughly how many trucks do we need?

€9.99

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Takt Time & Line Balancing Calculator – main listing imageLean & Continuous Improvement

Takt Time & Line Balancing Calculator

Enter your shifts, customer demand and the task times of each station – Excel calculates takt time, finds the bottleneck, shows what the line can really make per day and tells you where to move work.

€7.99

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