About Us...

Company :  Jefferson Industrial Software, LLC

Established : September 2005

Located : Northern Virginia, USA

 

Jefferson Industrial Software, LLC, is an independent software company dedicated to the manufacturing success of architectural millworking companies.

Jefferson Industrial Software invented a product called The J-MOS System (the Jefferson – Management and Operations System). J-MOS is a management "solution" that was originally developed as an “in-house” management system and is now in use by many other woodworking facilities across the U.S.

Jefferson Industrial Software’s main office continues to be located within a wood manufacturing facility for the sole purpose of keeping a pulse on the industry. We do not want to be isolated from the daily needs and changes of the wood industry.

 

J-MOS was designed and is maintained by people with a woodworking background!

 

J-MOS is an evolution of ideas stemming from the basic needs of workers in our industry. There is an ongoing never-ending challenge to supply this need and we are dedicated to meet this challenge.

We are very grateful for the input from our current J-MOS clients. We try to implement their needs in our software and share it with the rest of the industry. This keeps us moving continuously forward!

 

WoodShop Clock is a byproduct of the J-MOS System. WoodShop Clock is for woodworking firms of all sizes that are mainly interested in real-time labor tracking, organizing jobs, comparing estimated vs. actual hours, and producing employee time sheets.

We feel strongly that part of success in the wood industry is the definitive knowledge of labor practice. By comparing your actual labor to your estimated labor, locating overages and bottlenecks, trimming the labor waste (non-value added labor), and monitoring labor in real-time; are all keys to success.

 

 

A Brief History

Amongst the dust and machinery, the noise of nail guns and routers, the pride of the perfect miter and the satisfaction of an error free finish (uh... almost); lies the other side of the wood working business ... the business end.

As our custom architectural woodworking firm grew our needs grew. This meant in order to win bids and be profitable we had to tighten our organization, starting with trimming excess and wasted labor. We were trying to achieve the most productive minutes in the fabrication hour.

Increased Efficiency = Increased Productivity = Increased Profit

We needed to know how we were making money and exploit that. We needed to know where we were losing money and fix it. We needed accurate information to compare to our estimates so we could make adjustments and compete profitably.

We constantly were embattled with steering our production instead of letting our production steer us. We needed to know who - what - where - when and how things were to be done. What is on the schedule, what is the entire scope of a job and do we have enough manpower?

The burden of running multiple jobs simultaneously with multiple work-orders on each job and knowing where we stood on everything - NOW, was a real chore. Project managers delivered work-orders for the shop "over the wall"; employees were being pulled from one fire to another fire; hours of labor were not being tracked; bottlenecks everywhere and job costing was a shot in the dark....

The information process was a shotgun approach. Some people knew what was going on and others didn't. Information searching was a distracting time consuming non-value added process. We had no central "core" of information.

... Sound familiar?

The first thing that had to happen was to establish an information "central". We began creating a software program that we could enter baseline jobs and associate a list of the work (scope) for that project. Everyone did this and all jobs went in this database.

"... part of success in the wood industry is the definitive knowledge of labor practice."

We then started developing a means to track labor. So this system eventually turned into the "J-MOS System."

J-MOS software grew as the company grew. Starting about 10 years ago as just a time-on-jobs software... later expanded to material handling, bar-code tracking - capacity monitoring - job costing - touch screen interfacing - real-time minute by minute labor monitoring - etc...

We can honestly say that we have ...

Software designed for the wood business by people in the wood industry!

 

Keep Moving Forward!