Flip Raises $25 Million to Bring AI to Deskless Workers.
Read full press release.An employee app for manufacturing is a mobile-first platform that keeps every operator connected on the phone they already carry, with no corporate email or shared PC. Flip brings safety workflows, shift management, performance updates and company-wide communication into one platform and reaches the shop floor directly.
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Safety notices, SOP changes and production updates arrive late or not at all. With about 2.4 million US manufacturing roles at risk of going unfilled, every new hire and every retained worker counts. Reach is the problem, and reach is what most tools quietly fail at. An employee app made for the factory floor closes the gap by putting the message on the one device every worker already carries. Operators on the line, in the warehouse, or on the move get real-time updates, digital shift swaps, safety alerts with photo proof, and instant answers from internal knowledge in over 25 languages.
The value shows up in the ordinary shift, not the demo. A manufacturing employee app has to carry communication, scheduling, safety and knowledge without asking an operator to learn anything new.
Company and site comms
Connect employees across one or many production sites worldwide. A target-group news feed sends each person only what matters, from process changes to safety notices, by push notification. Dedicated idea channels turn operator suggestions into structured, trackable submissions, because the people closest to the product know how to improve it.
Messaging
Coordinate across shifts without personal messaging apps. Secure one-to-one and group chats with photo sharing and one-tap live translation reach the whole team, so a technician on nights and a supervisor on days stay on the same page across languages.
Shift management
Simplify shift management. Employees view schedules, swap shifts and share availability from their phones, with no calls and no last-minute scrambles.
Safety and compliance
Keep the plant safe and audit-ready. Distribute updated SOPs instantly, digitize incident reports, and track training completion across sites and shifts. Reach teams in seconds for urgent safety alerts, and give leadership global visibility into compliance status.
Company knowledge
Get answers in seconds from your own company AI. A 6am operator asking "How is maintenance on line 3 carried out?" gets the current work instruction with its source, in over 25 languages, so safety and quality requirements reach everyone regardless of location or native language.
Custom-built solutions
Build your own apps for exactly what the floor needs. The AI app builder Flip Fusion lets you prompt your own app for any workflow, from a machine-downtime log to a quality-inspection checklist, with permissions and compliance built in.
'The employee app is very easy to use. This is appreciated not only by our employees, but also by our editors who create the content.'
Flip Intelligence is the AI of Flip. It combines Ask AI, pre-built agents, and a workflow builder on top of your knowledge base, with frontline identity and access management for secure, simple access. It turns the manufacturing employee app into a productivity engine, so factory teams get answers and complete whole processes in one place.
A 6am operator asking "How is maintenance on line 3 carried out?" gets the current work instruction with its source, in over 25 languages. Safety and quality requirements reach everyone, regardless of location or native language, with no waiting on a shift lead.
Every plant runs on a long tail of small jobs that no off-the-shelf feature covers: the downtime log for one line, the quality check for one part, the maintenance request that still travels by radio, the near-miss report that never gets filed. These tasks still live on clipboards and in spreadsheets, and they are exactly where a generic app stops and a custom one would start, if building one did not mean a development project.
Flip Fusion removes the project. You describe the app in plain language, Fusion builds it against your real Flip data, and you ship it across your sites in minutes. Because a Fusion app is a Flip-based app, it inherits identity, permissions, offline support and compliance from the platform, which matters when an app touches safety and production data, so there is nothing new for IT to audit and no separate rollout.
None of these needed a developer. Manufacturers turn the paperwork on the floor into apps that ship the same day they are described.
Factory app | What it does | Who builds it |
|---|---|---|
Machine-downtime log | An operator logs downtime and cause in two taps, and the line lead sees a live dashboard instead of chasing numbers by radio | Operations or line lead |
Quality-inspection checklist | A step-by-step check with photo capture; every result lands in an audit trail for traceability | Quality lead |
Maintenance request | Two taps and a photo, routed straight to maintenance, with the downtime logged against the machine | Shift lead or maintenance |
Near-miss safety report | A fast, structured report routed to EHS, with a record that closes the compliance gap | EHS or safety lead |
Shift handover | A structured handover that no incoming shift misses, with open items carried over automatically | Shift lead |
FAQ
An employee app for manufacturing is a mobile-first platform that connects deskless factory workers, operators, technicians and plant managers with communication, safety, scheduling and training tools on their own phones. Unlike a desk-based intranet, it reaches the shop floor in real time and needs no corporate email, which is why manufacturers reach a 95% usage rate, far above the 30% to 60% deskless-tool average. Flip is the employee app for manufacturing trusted by Bosch, MAHLE and Magna.
Flip distributes updated SOPs instantly, digitizes incident reports, tracks training completion across shifts and sites, and pushes urgent safety alerts to the right teams in seconds, while giving leadership global visibility into compliance status.
No. Flip is built for workers without corporate email or desk access. Employees sign in on their own smartphone through Frontline Identity, which is why manufacturers reach a 95% usage rate.
Yes. Channels route content by site, role or shift, and one-tap live translation plus AI answers in over 25 languages keep headquarters and international production lines aligned.
New hires get on-demand training, how-to guides and peer support from day one, with task checklists that keep onboarding on track. This matters as roughly 2.4 million US manufacturing roles risk going unfilled and every retained worker counts.
Flip Intelligence sits on top of your Knowledge Base and turns it into answers and actions. It combines Ask AI for instant, sourced responses, a set of pre-built Agents, and Flip Flows for automated processes, all reachable from the same app the team already opens through the shift. Agents such as Absence Management, Shift Schedules and Pay Stub Access resolve end to end from an Ask AI prompt, and when a process does not exist yet, the AI Flow Builder writes it from a plain-language description, for example a machine-fault report that alerts maintenance and logs downtime.
Yes. Flip Fusion, Flip's AI app builder, turns a plain-language description into a working mini-app shipped across your sites in minutes, with permissions and compliance inherited from your existing setup. Teams already use it for a machine-downtime log, a quality-inspection checklist with photo capture, and a maintenance-request app, each one live the same day it is described.
Through Frontline Identity: a passwordless login using passkeys and QR-code activation in about two steps, with single sign-on into connected systems such as MES and HR, and full governance for onboarding, contractors and offboarding. IT keeps control of the identity lifecycle without issuing an email account to every new hire or contractor.
Yes. Flip is ISO 27001-certified, SOC 2 compliant and GDPR-compliant, with end-to-end encryption and no access to private smartphone data.
Flip runs the daily operations of Bosch, MAHLE, Magna and Porsche, alongside manufacturers such as GREIF, Krone, Südpack, Groupe Atlantic and EUROPART. Usage runs at 95%, well above the 30% to 60% deskless-tool average.
🇩🇪 Made in Germany: Hosting in the EU, GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001-certified
🔒 Data security: End-to-end encryption, no access to private smartphone data
⚡ 95% usage rate: Higher than the industry average (30-60%). Flip actually creates added value for employees
🚀 Fast implementation: Rollout without email address required, 24-hour support
