Case study

Work orders in furniture production: seven stations on one screen

Major Enterijer, based in Železnik, Belgrade, makes custom furniture: kitchens, wardrobes, and built-ins. A single work order moves through several production stations, from cutting to installation, and each station needs to know what is next in line for it.

The challenge: one order, seven stations

Production has seven stations: cutting, edge banding, CNC machining, CNC drilling, painting, assembly, and installation. An order does not go through all of them, only through the ones it needs. The director needed one place to see where each order is, and each station needed a list of its own jobs in order.

The solution: work orders on a phone or tablet, nothing to install

Tokora built a web app (Next.js + Supabase) that runs in the browser. The director opens an order and checks the stations it goes through. Each station sees its own jobs in chronological order on its screen, sets a status (waiting, in progress, done), and leaves comments that every station on that order can see. When the last station finishes, the order closes itself. The director has an overview by day, period, and status, with open and finished orders on separate tabs.

Status: in production since July 2026

Tokora released the first version on 3 July 2026, the same day as the meeting with the director. Production switched to the app in mid-August. After a month of use, the director asked for five changes from practice: comments on the whole order, automatic closing, a wider default date range, finished orders kept separate, and oldest-first sorting. All of them shipped in September. In October the next phase went live: a client dossier with files and drawings attached to each job. We have not measured time savings, so we do not quote any.

Questions and answers

Frequently asked questions

Does every station need a computer?

No. The app runs in the browser on a phone or tablet kept at the station. Each station has one shared login, so workers do not sign in individually.

What if an order does not go through every station?

When opening the order, the director checks only the stations it needs. The order shows up only at those stations and closes when the last of them finishes its part.

Does this work for other kinds of production?

The pattern is the same wherever work moves through several workstations: an order, a list of stations, a status per station, and comments. For another company the station names and order fields change, and the flow stays the same.