Manufacturing companies face a unique set of project management challenges. First, their idea of complex usually dwarfs other industries ideas of complex. There may be 15 activities all hanging on a single delivery date, and a single slip in engineering can literally affect every person in the company. Harmony was designed to address this be making it very easy to not only model complex dependencies, but also test out various scenarios, such as slippages, for how that affects other parts of the company and long term deliverables.

Share Status Reporting Responsibility
Because manufactures may rely on numerous factories and vendors, Harmony was designed to easily include external users as part of the process. An external user can be invited and granted access to only view and update a given track. This way, a company can push the responsibility of providing updates and keeping the project plan current to the relevant parties. This increases the likelihood the plan will accurately reflect reality and, more importantly, help coordinate company resources

Better Schedule Impact Analysis
Unforeseen delays and slippages are almost inevitable, but understand their impact can make the difference in long term project success. For instance, when engineering slips a week, that will change the deliverable date for marketing’s product website. The old way of managing projects meant this information might get shared once a week during a status meeting, or possibly by email. Harmony transmits the information instantly and marketing can immediately adjust, freeing up resources for other projects now that a given date has changed.