SyFOS: How You Run Your Business | Synchronous Solutions

Q: What does a Synchronous Flow Installation include?

A direct Installation builds the SyFOS operating foundation. Yes. The first 12 months of SyFOS software are included in a direct Synchronous Flow Installation. The annual software renewal after the included period is currently $2,400. Consulting, coaching, and other ongoing support are scoped separately.

The essential distinction

One business. One connected way to run it.

SyFOS is the Synchronous Flow Operating System: how you run your business. It connects direction, people, work, money, and improvement, from the first customer conversation to the collected invoice and from daily decisions to the annual plan.

Synchronous Flow provides the principles and eight-step improvement framework behind SyFOS. SyFOS applies that thinking to how the whole business runs. SyFOS software supports the people, decisions, and management routines that keep it working.

The operating system is bigger than the software. The real product is a management team that can see, decide, act, and improve together.

Backbone

Synchronous Flow

The Goal, T$, constraints, buffers, focusing rules, and management disciplines.

Rhythm

Management cadence

Roles, meetings, decision rights, escalation, and follow-through.

Signals

SyFOS software

The configurable environment where risk, priorities, commitments, and operating evidence become shared.

Learning

SFIT

The Synchronous Flow Improvement Team owns system maintenance, operational learning, and improvement follow-through.

The complete business system

From the first customer conversation to the collected invoice.

SyFOS connects the disciplines a fabrication business needs to deliver for customers, support its people, and build financial strength. Your starting point and implementation scope reflect the capabilities you already have and the conditions that need attention.

01

Direction

A plan the team can explain.

Agree on what the business is trying to achieve, what must change, and the evidence that will show whether the plan is working.

02

Production flow

Protect the pace that governs output.

Coordinate readiness, release, and work mix around the resource that sets the pace, so work moves reliably toward the customer promise.

03

Financial decisions

One picture of how you make money.

Use Throughput economics to connect pricing, job mix, hiring, and capacity decisions to the financial goal.

04

Cash discipline

Know what is available and what is committed.

Establish routines for supplier commitments, taxes, working cash, and reserves so leadership can plan payments and distributions with a clearer picture.

05

Leadership structure

Every role knows what it owns.

Clarify responsibilities and decision rights from owner to GM to department managers, so decisions are made at the right level.

06

Business health

See trouble before it becomes a surprise.

Review Throughput, investment tied up in the business, operating expense, customer experience, people, and the obligations that protect the ability to keep operating.

07

Management rhythm

Connect today’s work to the annual plan.

Give daily stand-ups, weekly leadership decisions, quarterly priorities, and annual planning a shared direction and clear follow-through.

08

Continuous improvement

Keep working on what matters next.

Give the Synchronous Flow Improvement Team a standing process to examine causes, test changes, and strengthen the system as the constraint moves.

The management rhythm

A rhythm from daily action to annual direction.

Each meeting has a purpose, each decision has an owner, and follow-through connects the planning horizon to the work.

01Annual direction
02Quarterly priorities
03Weekly leadership
04Daily coordination
05Improvement follow-through

The supporting digital tools

See how SyFOS software supports daily decisions.

The software supports the wider business system. These representative views show flow-management and improvement tools used in recent fabrication installations. Every company, person, work order, date, and value is fictional.

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01 Know the score

Begin with the financial result the system exists to produce.

Daily T$ and the Productivity Score make the economic requirement visible before the team discusses activity. The question becomes, “Did the flow deliver what the goal required?”

Decision enabled: Adjust the mix, capacity, or response before the shortfall becomes a monthly surprise.

Representative SyFOS DBR Management Meeting workspace with its left navigation, engine diagram, daily T$, Productivity Score, and Operating Expense bucket — DBR Management Meeting · representative SyFOS demo

02 Protect the promise

Operations protects Production from work that is not ready.

Readiness gates make the required information, material, jobsite conditions, layout, and dates explicit before a work order can enter the production engine.

Decision enabled: Release clean work at the right time instead of flooding the shop with uncertainty.

Representative SyFOS Production Sequencing workspace with its left navigation, release timing rules, constraint resources, and fictional scheduled work — Production Sequencing · representative SyFOS demo

03 Control the flow

See where every job should be and whether the promise is safe.

The expected zone shows today’s processing stage. A separate status identifies whether the job is On Track, a Threat, or a Hole. Production planners can respond before an install is missed.

Decision enabled: Reorder, pull work forward, expedite, or use a contingency based on visible risk.

Representative SyFOS Operations workspace with its left navigation, work-order readiness gates, expected processing zones, and On Track, Threat, or Hole status — Operations control · representative SyFOS demo

04 Improve the system

Today’s exceptions become tomorrow’s better standards.

SFIT stands for Synchronous Flow Improvement Team. This cross-functional group of managers and key players maintains the system, assures useful data is captured and analyzed, and manages improvement projects through follow-through.

The SFIT applies the same eight-step Synchronous Flow framework that guides improvement across the whole business. Threats, holes, callbacks, recuts, and recurring constraint losses inform its improvement work and the strategic roadmap for protective capacity and design-constraint investment.

Decision enabled: Focus scarce improvement capacity on the existing or potential bottleneck that matters to the whole system now.

Representative SyFOS SFIT Project Management workspace with its left navigation, 8-Step Improvement Process, current priorities, owners, and experiments — SFIT Project Management · representative SyFOS demo

05 Plan the future

Know what capacity to add, when to add it, and why.

Current and future-state models connect demand, reliable capacity, protective capacity, the constraint, and the Operating Expense required to support growth.

Decision enabled: Invest when the constraint logic supports the decision, not when generalized busyness creates pressure.

Representative SyFOS Capacity Analysis workspace with its left navigation, current-state analyzer, protective capacity planning, and fictional eight-week outlook — Capacity Analysis · representative SyFOS demo

All work orders, people, companies, and financial values shown above are fictional. No client information is displayed.

Your existing tools and practices

Build on what already works.

Your ERP can remain the source of record for customers, orders, and transactions. SyFOS software provides shared operating visibility. If you already use an entrepreneurial operating system, we build on useful leadership meetings, quarterly priorities, values, and issue-solving practices, connecting them to the economics, flow, and cash disciplines of your fabrication business.

The exact data flow is configured to the client’s environment. The goal is useful management visibility, not another disconnected place to maintain information for its own sake.

Discuss your current systems

How SyFOS relates to existing business systems

Systems of recordERP · CRM · Accounting · Scheduling dataCustomers, orders, transactions, dates, and source information

SyFOS business operating systemDirection · Flow · Money · Leadership · ImprovementShared signals, decision rules, management meetings, judgment, and owned actions

Management responseDecide · Act · Learn · ImproveThe team runs the process and strengthens the system

How it becomes yours

Assess the business. Build the system. Develop your team.

Synchronous Solutions helps you assess the business, establish the operating disciplines, configure useful software, and coach the people who will own the system. The aim is a team that can run and improve it with confidence.

01Implementation

Put the operating tools into use.

Configure the client’s engines, work orders, constraints, readiness rules, T$ measures, roles, meetings, and required views.

Evidence: the team is using SyFOS in live work.

02Integration

Make the work part of management roles.

Clarify who maintains the information, leads each meeting, responds to each signal, owns each decision, and follows through.

Evidence: the system is no longer consultant-dependent.

03Embedding

Make Synchronous Flow part of the culture.

Leadership reinforces the goal, managers use the common logic, and the SFIT keeps the organization focused on the next constraint.

Evidence: the business keeps learning as conditions change.

Availability and investment

Build the system through a supported engagement.

The Assessment establishes the starting point and scope. A direct Installation builds the operating foundation; coaching, advisory work, and partner programs can develop additional capabilities. Software access and continuing professional support have separate terms.

With a direct InstallationFirst 12 months of software included

SyFOS software configuration and operating use are part of the four-month Synchronous Flow Installation. The software supports the transfer from installation into ongoing management.

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Software renewal after the included period$2,400 per year

The current annual software renewal keeps the configured SyFOS workspace active. Consulting, flow-management support, custom development, training, and other ongoing support are scoped separately.

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Other supported routesFit before prescription

Qualifying StoneSync Pro or other supported engagements may include elements of Synchronous Flow and SyFOS. We will identify the sensible route before recommending a larger commitment.

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Common questions

What leaders ask when they first see SyFOS.

How is SyFOS different from Synchronous Flow and the software?

Synchronous Flow provides the principles and eight-step improvement framework behind SyFOS. SyFOS applies that thinking to how the whole business runs. SyFOS software supports the people, decisions, and management routines that keep it working.

Can we keep our existing management system?

Yes. Useful weekly meetings, quarterly priorities, values, and issue-solving practices can be incorporated into one way of running the business. We assess what already works and connect it to the industry-specific flow, financial, cash, and leadership disciplines your team needs.

What is SyFOS?

SyFOS is the Synchronous Flow Operating System: how you run your business. It connects direction, people, work, money, and improvement, from the first customer conversation to the collected invoice and from daily decisions to the annual plan.

Does SyFOS replace our ERP?

No. Your ERP remains the system of record for quoting, orders, customers, and transactions. SyFOS software gives the team shared operating visibility, while the wider system connects goals, responsibilities, management routines, and improvement. The exact exchange of information depends on the client’s current technology and implementation scope.

Is this just scheduling software?

No. Scheduling is one important part. SyFOS also supports daily T$ performance, readiness and release, WIP control, constraint performance, buffer health, work-order risk, install quality, flow disruptions, capacity analysis, role accountability, and SFIT improvement work.

Who uses SyFOS?

Owners, general managers, project managers, production planners, production leaders, finance leaders, and the Synchronous Flow Improvement Team (SFIT) use role-appropriate views. Not everyone needs every screen, but everyone works from the same operating logic and economic goal.

What is the SFIT?

SFIT stands for Synchronous Flow Improvement Team. It is the cross-functional operational-intelligence group that keeps the system maintained, assures useful data is entered and analyzed, manages improvement projects to completion, and sets the capacity roadmap. The SFIT helps the business stay proactive about existing and emerging bottlenecks, preserve protective capacity at non-constraints, and guide utilization and investment at the design constraint.

What does a Synchronous Flow Installation include?

A direct Synchronous Flow Installation builds the SyFOS operating foundation and includes the first 12 months of SyFOS software access. The current annual software renewal after the included period is $2,400. Consulting, coaching, and other ongoing support are scoped separately.

Can we buy the software on its own?

SyFOS software is normally configured and introduced through a Synchronous Flow Installation or another qualifying supported program. Its value comes from pairing the software with the measures, operating rules, roles, and management rhythms that make its signals useful.

Is every SyFOS workspace identical?

No. The core Synchronous Flow logic remains consistent, while engines, constraints, pipelines, readiness rules, roles, views, reporting, and data movement are configured to the operating reality of each client.

See it against your reality

Bring the business problem you keep working around.

We will explore what is happening across the business, what your team needs to decide more reliably, and where the right assessment or support could help.

Start with a free diagnostic conversation

No pressure and no software pitch detached from the operating work.

Talk through my business

SyFOS is how you run your business.