Benefits of using Floorganise Floor2Plan with Aurora

Whether you’re building ships, aircraft, or large industrial systems, scheduling is more than just pushing tasks across a Gantt chart; it’s about aligning real-world conditions on the shop floor with intelligent, feasible planning logic. And in such dynamic, resource-constrained settings, traditional scheduling tools like Primavera P6 often fall short. 

Enter the powerful combination of Floorganise Floor2Plan and Aurora, Stottler Henke’s intelligent scheduling system. Together, they offer a closed-loop, adaptive, and AI-powered solution that provides the insight, flexibility, and optimization needed for high-performance project execution. If your teams are struggling with outdated plans, missed priorities, or the constant firefighting that comes from rigid schedules, here’s why replacing, or augmenting, P6 with Floor2Plan + Aurora could be a game-changer.

What Are Floor2Plan and Aurora?

Floor2Plan, part of the Floorganise suite, is designed specifically for complex production environments. It captures and visualizes real-time shop floor activity—like task progress, resource usage, and delays—and translates that data into actionable insights for planners and supervisors. It’s built to make execution transparent and operator-friendly.

Aurora, on the other hand, is a powerful AI-driven scheduling engine that excels where traditional tools struggle: managing tasks with deep dependencies, shifting constraints, multi-skill labor, and limited capacity. As an added bonus, Aurora is already trusted by organizations like NASA and the U.S. Navy for its ability to handle mission-critical scheduling with high accuracy and responsiveness. When these two tools are used together, the result is a dynamic scheduling ecosystem that’s always grounded in reality—and always ready to adapt.

Transform Your Project Outcomes with Floorganise Floor2Plan and Aurora

1. Advanced AI-Driven Scheduling & Optimization

Aurora provides AI-powered, resource-constrained scheduling that is superior to conventional CPM-based approaches. It can better optimize global production schedules, handle dynamic constraints, and rapidly adapt to changing priorities—capabilities that stand well above Primavera P6’s more traditional scheduling engine.

2. Real-Time Shop Floor Execution & Feedback Loop

Floor2Plan acts as a modern Manufacturing Execution System (MES): it delivers detailed, real-time progress monitoring, shop floor workforce management, and actuals capture (time, attendance, completion)—all integrated into daily operations. By integrating Aurora’s high-level optimized plans with Floor2Plan’s ground-level tracking, organizations get immediate feedback on performance, bottlenecks, and deviations, allowing for data-driven re-planning.

3. End-to-End Integration: From Strategic Plan to Shop Floor Action

Seamless data flow (planning → execution → feedback):

• Aurora generates a globally optimized schedule.
• Floor2Plan imports these plans, operationalizes work packages for the shop floor, and tracks real progress.
• Shop floor data is fed back to Aurora for rapid rescheduling or corrective action.
• This creates a closed digital loop—manual transfer and redundant data entry (often seen with P6 and disconnected execution systems) are minimized.

4. Higher-Fidelity Resource and Risk Management

Aurora’s advanced optimization considers resource contention, risk, and material constraints at a much deeper level than P6. Floor2Plan’s risk and delay tracking means issues are flagged in real time, rather than painfully discovered at the end of a reporting cycle.

5. Greater Agility and Responsiveness

Dynamic, iterative re-optimization:

• When issues are found on the floor, schedule corrections can be made at the project level by Aurora and distributed instantly via Floor2Plan.
• Primavera P6 lacks native, real-time shop floor integration or advanced AI-based schedule revision—making it less agile for modern manufacturing needs.

6. Reduced Manual Error and Improved Data Quality

Automated integration between Aurora and Floor2Plan (via database, API, or direct import/export) reduces manual scheduling/data entry—minimizing human error and increasing data reliability.

7. Enhanced Collaboration

Cross-functional teams (planning, production, and execution) work from a unified, always-updated data platform—boosting transparency and accelerating decision-making.

The Limits of Primavera P6 in Complex Environments

Although Primavera P6 is a widely adopted project management solution, it wasn’t built to handle the on-the-ground complexity of real-time shop floor execution. P6 has several critical limitations:

• It requires frequent manual updates to stay current.
• It lacks native resource and shift optimization.
• It doesn’t integrate naturally with operator-level feedback or visual work tracking.
• It’s difficult to maintain feasibility in schedules when conditions change—meaning teams spend more time fixing the plan than following it.

In other words, P6 is great for high-level planning, but not for real-time, execution-driven scheduling.

How Floor2Plan + Aurora Overcome These Challenges

1. Real-Time Feedback = Realistic Plans

Floor2Plan gathers data directly from the floor—such as when tasks start or finish, who is working, and where bottlenecks occur. This information is fed into Aurora, which re-optimizes the schedule automatically.

You get plans that are no longer based on assumptions, but on what’s really happening. That means more accurate forecasts, fewer surprises, and less wasted effort.

2. Intelligent Optimization, Not Just Reordering

Unlike P6, which relies on manual adjustments, Aurora uses AI to recalculate the best possible schedule across hundreds or thousands of constraints. It accounts for resource availability, shift patterns, task dependencies, and project goals—without requiring you to rebuild the schedule by hand. This isn’t just rescheduling. It’s smart scheduling.

3. Clear Priorities for Every Role

Aurora generates a global task priority list, which Floor2Plan then visualizes for team leads, supervisors, and operators. Everyone knows what to work on next, and why. This shared sense of priority keeps teams focused and aligned with delivery goals—even as the situation on the floor evolves.

4. Shift-Aware, Resource-Constrained Scheduling

Aurora can handle rotating shifts, nonstandard calendars, flexible labor, and complex machine constraints—all of which are typically oversimplified or ignored in P6. By modeling real-world labor and resource availability, you avoid assigning tasks to people or equipment that aren’t actually available—saving hours of coordination and reducing risk.

5. A Visual, Actionable Shop Floor Interface

Primavera’s charts and tables aren’t designed for the people doing the work. Floor2Plan changes that with an intuitive, visual interface that makes schedules understandable to operators and team leads. Instead of spreadsheets and static Gantt charts, teams see a clear picture of progress, next steps, and blockers.

Real-World Impact: Beyond the Whiteboard

Let’s say your team is assembling a submarine section. Electrical work, structural welding, and inspection all depend on shared equipment and specialist labor. When a delay occurs in one task, the whole chain shifts. In P6, someone has to manually update dependencies, review calendars, and notify affected teams.

With Aurora and Floor2Plan, that disruption is:

• Detected automatically via real-time data,
• Re-optimized through AI,
• And communicated to all stakeholders via visual dashboards and updated task priorities.

That’s execution in sync with planning—without the chaos.

Final Thoughts

In a world where project success depends on execution, not just planning, the combination of Floorganise Floor2Plan + Aurora delivers an unmatched edge. It replaces rigid, assumption-heavy scheduling with a system that is:

• Grounded in reality
• Responsive to change
• Optimized for flow and resource use
• Easy to interpret and act on—by everyone on the team
  

Primavera P6 may be the standard—but for dynamic, high-complexity environments, it’s no longer enough. If you’re looking to unify planning with execution and take control of your schedule from the floor up, it’s time to explore what Floor2Plan and Aurora can do for your operation.