Why UnDesked / Workflow Automation

Workflow Automation

Turn paper and follow-ups
into workflows that run themselves.

Paper checklists, manual sign-offs, and spreadsheets capture the work, then stop. UnDesked turns them into workflows that trigger, route, track, and record themselves, so nothing waits on someone to remember.

Defect logged on Line 3Trigger
Supervisor notifiedrouted automatically
Work order createdin the CMMS
Affected lot placed on holdno shipping it by mistake
Logged to the recordtimestamped, exportable
One trigger. Four teams. Nobody re-keyed a thing.

Most of the work is still done by hand.

Manufacturing still runs on paper travelers, clipboards, and spreadsheets, and the follow-ups in between, the notifying, routing, and recording, still happen by hand.

0%
of workers say they could win back a full workday each week if repetitive tasks were automated1
0%
of manufacturers still run on spreadsheets and manual data entry2
0%
of companies have fully automated their workflows3

Paper does the recording. It does nothing else.

A checklist, a sign-off sheet, a spreadsheet: each one captures a moment, then stops. The work of moving it forward still falls to a person who has to remember.

It doesn't route

A finished form sits in a drawer. The next person finds out when they happen to walk by.

It doesn't remind

A skipped step is invisible until something breaks. Paper never chases anyone.

It doesn't remember

No timestamp, no trail. When an auditor or a customer asks, you go digging through binders.

It doesn't report

Operations cannot see what is done, late, or stuck until the numbers are typed up after the fact.

The form was never the problem. The follow-through was.

From paper to a workflow that runs itself.

The same defect on the floor, handled two ways. Flip to UnDesked and watch each step trigger the next, with a record that writes itself.

A defect is found on Line 3
1
Record the defectScribbled on a paper tag
!
2
Tell the supervisorWalk the floor to find them
!
3
Open a work orderCall it in, if there is time
!
4
Hold the lotHope it has not shipped
!
5
Sign off to resumeA verbal OK, no proof
!
6
Keep a recordFiled in a binder, maybe
!
Defect logged from the floorin 10 seconds, in any language
Supervisor notifiedautomatically, on their device
Work order createdin the connected CMMS
Lot placed on holdand sign-off required to resume

Live record

Defect logged09:41:02
Supervisor notified09:41:03
Work order #4471 opened09:41:05
Lot 22-B placed on hold09:41:06
Sign-off requested09:41:06

From paper to automatic

Work that triggers, routes, and records itself.

No more chasing sign-offs on paper. Steps fire in order, on any device, in every worker's language.

Build any workflow. No code.

Pick a trigger, add the conditions that matter, choose what happens, and every run writes itself to the record. Your team configures it, or our workflow engineers build it with you.

When this happens
A form is submitted
A QR code is scanned
A shift starts
And if
A check fails
It is a night shift
A threshold is crossed
Do this
Notify the right people
Assign a task or work order
Require a sign-off
And record it
Timestamp every step
Update the dashboard
File it to the record

The supercharger

And because it is one platform, it speaks every language at once.

Automation is the win for any team. For a multilingual workforce it goes further: author once and every workflow, message, and document reaches each worker in the language they read, automatically. No extra tools, no extra step.

See the AI Translation Engine

Customer story

A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer consolidated 50 facilities and 8,500 deskless workers onto UnDesked.

0%fewer safety incidents in two years
0xmore near-miss reports, 400 to 4,000 a month
0%lower workers' comp costs, about $2.2M saved
0%higher workforce engagement
"Before UnDesked, every problem on the floor meant another login and another vendor, and no one place to see any of it. Now safety, quality, training, and communications all run on one platform. I manage the whole operation from a single screen, and my team works from one source of truth instead of six."

A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer. Read the full story3

Two frontline workers reviewing a workflow on a tablet on the floor

Put your paper processes on autopilot.

Bring the checklists, sign-offs, and spreadsheets you run by hand today. We will show you how they run themselves on UnDesked.

Sources

  1. Smartsheet, Automation in the Workplace; nearly 60 percent of workers estimate they could save six or more hours a week, about a full workday, if the repetitive parts of their job were automated. smartsheet.com
  2. Infrrd analysis of manufacturing operations; nearly 48 percent of manufacturing companies still rely on spreadsheets or other manual data-entry documents. infrrd.ai
  3. Formstack, State of Digital Maturity, as cited by DocuClipper; only about 4 percent of businesses have fully automated their workflows. docuclipper.com
  4. UnDesked customer case study, Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer. undesked.com/case-study