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Gary Chou

Manufacturing Engineer and Project Manager

Technological company
uses GanttPRO to see
the entire project layout

“We needed a tool field supervisors and PMs could use. GanttPRO kept it simple and controlled.”

A story about e-MSion turning a complex product launch into a simple, shared plan with clear deadlines

Company overview

Company: e-MSion

Role interviewed: Manufacturing Engineer and Project Manager

Project types: product launch planning, engineering, and manufacturing work

External pressures: big scope of work, need to organize tasks clearly and see what depends on what

Problems hinted at: difficulties with laying out and coordination, lack of proper visual plan, need for an easy way to share plans with the team

Summary

  • GanttPRO with a clear timeline made launch streams easy and understandable at first glance.
  • The sequence of what must go first and what gets blocked is now transparent.
  • URL sharing transformed following up-to-date plan into an easy and smooth step.
  • Export and printing provided a physical version of the plan when it’s needed.

    • Company Background

    What does your company focus on?

    e-MSion was founded in 2015. We design a custom add-on that fits inside the existing spectrometers, so they basically upgrade their capabilities giving them an additional electronic fragmentation. This unique type of fragmentation produced by our device enables the fast, comprehensive characterization of ions without the experimental complexity of other competing technologies on the market today.
    "I was actually searching for Microsoft Project alternatives. I tried several options and then I came to GanttPRO."

    Gary Chou

    Manufacturing Engineer and Project Manager

    Struggle

    How did your approach look before GanttPRO?

    We have a big product launch that’s about to finish. There was just a lot of work to do. And it was difficult to get it organized and lay down without a tool like GanttPRO. I was actually searching for Microsoft Project alternatives. I tried several options and then I came to GanttPRO. I was happy enough with the free trial so it was not a tough choice for me to go on with it.


    “GanttPRO actually made planning very easy. It was very helpful for the team to see the entire project layout visually and the dependencies to realize how much work we truly needed to do.”


    Fo my product launch plan, I created a draft. Then, I interviewed my team members and put their estimations and tasks into the schedule. Once the plan was ready, I shared it with the rest of the team.

    GanttPRO helps me lay out tasks to see the reasonable finish date and start date for succeeding events.


    Also, I used the tool to print out the plans. This is where the Export feature helps a lot. Now, I am a big fan of the URL sharing feature. I used it really a lot.

    Favorite features

    • The way you can create and drag dependencies between events is very nice for me. The fact that the whole app is just in a browser made it very easy to use.

    • Public URL is nice as well. Once the plan is ready, I share it with the team.

    • Dependencies
    • Sharing

    Impact

    What does your work look like now with GanttPRO?

    GanttPRO made complex launch planning way easier to manage. The picture is now clear, dependencies are easy to understand, and the work sequence is easy to follow. Sharing the plan is now a smooth step thanks to the public URL, while export and printing make it easy to use the plan in different formats when needed. Overall, the workflow became more clear, coordinated, and manageable for the team.