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Every job planned. Every hour recorded and invoiced.

See every mechanic, test bench and paint booth week by week. Mechanics clock in on jobs at the terminal, and the time goes straight onto the customer's invoice – at the right rate.

The planning overview in Micronomy: every mechanic's jobs side by side across the week with utilisation, test benches, paint booth and vehicles as resources, and a list of parked and unplanned jobs

Sound familiar?

The plan lives on a whiteboard, and only the workshop manager knows what actually applies.
Two jobs need the test bench the same afternoon – you only notice when both are standing there.
Jobs waiting for parts or a customer's answer drop out of sight and just sit there.
Time is written on the work order by hand and interpreted when the invoice is made.

The planning overview

The whole workshop on one screen.

Every mechanic's jobs side by side by day, week or month. Drag in unplanned jobs, see who has room and spot clashes before they happen.

Utilisation per mechanic

Planned hours against capacity for each mechanic, the week at a glance. Absence and holidays show up right in the row.

Jobs in several parts

Split a big job across days and mechanics. Each part shows its hours, and the job shows how much is left.

Resources, not just people

Test benches, the paint booth and test equipment are planned as rows of their own, with their own utilisation. Two jobs can't book the same bench without it being flagged.

Park and resume jobs

Waiting for spare parts? Park the job from the step where the work stopped, with the reason visible in the queue. When the parts arrive you resume the job and plan the rest – from the same step.

Deviations you can see

Jobs that overrun, start late or clash over a resource are marked straight away. Show only the conflicts when you want to clear the week.

From the floor to the planner

Mechanics' notes on jobs show in the overview, and shift filters for early and late shifts keep the plan readable.

Zoom in

A mechanic's week, step by step.

Steps in the right order

Disassembly, assembly, testing, painting and inspection – planned one after another on the same job.

The customer's fault description comes along

Every step shows what the customer said, so the mechanic knows what needs fixing.

Shifts and lunch included

Steps that don't fit are split automatically and continue in the next work session.

One mechanic's working week in the calendar view: disassembly, inspection, assembly, testing and painting planned one after another, with the customer's fault description on each step, planned against actual time, steps split around lunch and lunch blocked every day

A mechanic's week view with sample data.

Park and resume

The parts have arrived. Back into the plan.

A job waiting for spare parts is parked from the step where it stopped. When you resume it, the overview shows where it fits.

“Parts arrived”

The job shows in the queue with its new status, the resources it needs and the customer's fault description.

The right mechanic is highlighted

Whoever worked on the job before is marked – and everyone else with the right skills to take over – with when they are free next.

Think twice before you move

See when a mechanic becomes free if you park their current job.

Clashes show immediately

The resources the job can use are highlighted, and a double-booked test bench is flagged before it becomes a problem.

The parked job w-16183 with status Parts arrived is selected in the overview: the mechanics who can take it are highlighted with when they are free, the others are dimmed, and the resources the job needs stand out

A parked job is moved back into the plan. Sample data.

Clashes

Double-booked test bench? Solved in one click.

When two jobs need the same resource at the same time, the clash is flagged straight away. Click it and Micronomy shows how it can be resolved.

Flagged in three places

On the resource, on the jobs and in the conflict row – the clash is hard to miss.

Both jobs side by side

Times, mechanics, priority and the customer's fault description for each job.

Suggestions by priority

The job with the highest priority keeps its time, the other one moves later.

You decide

Follow the suggestion or pick which job goes first yourself – the plan recalculates instantly.

A resource clash in the planning overview: test bench 1 is double-booked by w-15910 and w-15897. The panel shows both jobs with time, mechanic, priority and the customer's fault description, suggests that the high-priority job keeps its time while the low-priority one moves later, and offers three ways to resolve the clash

A double-booked test bench is resolved in the overview. Sample data.

Skills & certificates

Know what each mechanic can do.

A catalogue of the workshop's skills – from gearbox diagnostics to PLC programming – and the certificates required to be allowed to work.

Level 1–5 per skill

See how strong each mechanic is, not just who has taken the course.

Certificates with expiry dates

High-voltage certification, overhead crane and forklift licences, with the dates they are valid.

The shop floor's own words

Aliases like “DSG” and “automatic gearbox” make search find the right thing, in Swedish and English.

The workshop terminal

Clock in on the job. The rest follows.

A screen on the workshop floor where the mechanic logs in with a PIN code. No computer, no paper slips.

  1. Ongoing job in focus

    Time worked against planned time, and when the job should be done.

  2. Finish and start the next

    One tap finishes the job and starts the one that's next in line. Forgot to clock out? Enter the end time afterwards.

  3. My day and my week

    The mechanic sees their jobs day by day and can add time themselves.

The mechanic's week in the workshop terminal: steps day by day with completed ones ticked, the running one marked and open gaps where time is missing
The workshop terminal with the mechanic's ongoing step: assembly on job w-14761, 1:05 worked of 8:30 planned, should be done by 15:00, buttons to enter an end time, finish, or finish and start the next, and testing up next

The workshop terminal with sample data.

Insights

Find the bottlenecks. Before they cost you.

When mechanics clock in on jobs, the time between jobs shows too. Micronomy shows where the hours actually go – and what the workshop is waiting for.

Waiting and idle time per mechanic

How much time each mechanic spends waiting, or without a job, week by week.

Queues for resources

How long jobs wait for a test bench, the paint booth or test equipment to become free.

Evidence for the right decision

Do you need another test bench, or is it enough to move painting to another shift? The numbers show where it pays to start.

From job to invoice

Clocked time is billable time.

The same platform that plans the job invoices it. The time the mechanic clocked goes through approval to the customer's agreement – and is priced to the minute.

An agreement per customer

Each fleet customer gets their own agreement with their own rates per service, and recurring lines are added automatically.

Evening and weekend rates to the minute

A job that runs into the evening is split, and each part is invoiced at its own rate.

Approval and locked weeks

The supervisor approves the time and locks the week before anything is invoiced.

Exactly once

No hour can end up on two invoices, and a disputed line is credited on its own.

Illustration. Rates are examples.

Where we're heading

SoonFixed service fees

Monthly, quarterly and annual fees invoiced automatically, never twice.

On the roadmapWeekly plan suggestions

Micronomy makes the first draft of the week for you, based on the same skills that already decide who gets highlighted.

Frequently asked questions

Do mechanics need their own accounts and computers?

No. They log in at the workshop terminal with a PIN code, start and finish jobs and see their day and week.

Can a job be split between several mechanics and days?

Yes. The job is split into parts that are planned separately, and the overview shows the hours left on the whole job.

What happens to jobs waiting for parts?

You park the job from the step where it stopped, for example after disassembly. It lands in the queue with the reason “waiting for parts”, so it doesn't fall through the cracks. When the parts arrive you resume the job, and the remaining steps are planned from there.

How are jobs that run into the evening handled?

The time is split where the rate changes, and each part is invoiced at its own price according to the customer's agreement.

Plan next week with us.

Bring your mechanics, resources and open jobs. We set up the week and follow one job from the terminal to the invoice.