Overview
Stijn Wijndaele is based in Gent and has been CEO and co-founder of 24Flow, a shop floor management and production scheduling platform, since March 2020. He was also a Salesforce business expert at delaware BeLux from April 2021 to November 2023, Chief Digital Officer at Behault Mining from November 2019 to November 2023, and co-founder and managing partner of ScaleFactory - Enterprising Partners from October 2018 to December 2023.
Earlier he was corporate innovation manager at The House of HR from 2017 to 2022, development director at Accent Jobs from 2017 to 2019, and Chief Digital Officer at ETF Mining from 2016 to 2019. He worked at ACA IT-Solutions from December 2014 to December 2018, first in business development and as unit manager for enterprise mobility and then as an enterprise mobility expert. He held QA manager and programme manager roles at CloudFounders N.V. between 2011 and 2014, owned Wepstek from 2011 to 2016, and began his career at Nomadesk in 2006 as a junior project manager, becoming operation manager in 2007.
He studied at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent, EHSAL Management School, Ghent University and Vlerick Business School.
Career history
Media & appearances
- 24FlowYouTubeMariasteen’s Scheduling Transformation with 24Flow and FlandersMakeStijn Wijndaele discusses 24Flow's scheduling tool, which uses proactive and reactive algorithms to automate and optimize production planning by dynamically integrating personnel, machine availability, and production orders while adapting to real-time changes. He describes how Mariasteen, a custom manufacturer with 1,000 employees and over 30,000 annual production orders, uses the tool to reduce planning time, improve delivery performance, and allow supervisors to focus on workforce management rather than manual scheduling.
In the news
- Only wet babies like change. People who know me call me from time to time "Mr Oneliner" Well this oneliner I learned at Vlerick Business School and sadly enough it is very relevant for all of us in Europe. We know something needs to change but hey change means I need to leave my comfort zone , means it involves risk so hey let's hide behind the fact "we're TOO BUSY" Well we reached a point where waiting costs MORE then changing, so time to wake up 😴
- Met een YoY growth van meer dan 50% is het tijd om ons team te versterken want "alles kan beter en sneller" 💪 What's in it for you ? Decent job offer and having impact while making fun. Meer moet dat ni zijn ;-)
- Hey Lovable add some security to my app. 🤓 Wouldn’t it be great if security worked like that? In manufacturing, security isn’t something you bolt on after the next feature release. It needs to be part of the foundation. That’s one of the reasons I’m happy 24flow is built on Salesforce. We were late communicating the latest security changes to our customers, that’s on us. But the security itself? Already there. 🔐 More context see below 👇 #Manufacturing #MES #Salesforce #Security #MFA #24Flow
- Workload Control is one of the capabilities I’m most excited about in our Summer ’26 release. In high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, more planning doesn’t necessarily mean more flow. Sometimes the answer is simple: control how much work enters the shop floor. 👉 See Workload Control in action: https://lnkd.in/emcJvtrV Want to see what else is coming? Join our Summer ’26 Technical Deep Dive: https://lnkd.in/erY5eVuc Less WIP. More flow. #Manufacturing #MTO #ETO #QRM #MES #24Flow
- Every hour AI saves me, I try to invest back into learning AI. It's one of the best investments I've made this year. Today I spent some time going through the AI First initiative by TechWolf. Kudos to the team for making it publicly available: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4S4fefm Even though I've been working extensively with AI, I still picked up a few practical ideas to make my agents work better and require less maintenance. That reinforced one simple lesson: The people who will benefit most from AI won't be the ones using it the most.
- One thing always surprises me in software. A new technology emerges. Within months, every vendor claims: "It's on our roadmap." "We're building it in our innovation lab." "We're launching soon." A while ago, Gartner highlighted the importance of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a key enabler for Agentic Manufacturing. Today, everyone is talking about it. For me, that's not the interesting part. The interesting question is: What kind of foundation did you build your manufacturing platform on? At 24Flow, we chose Salesforce
- Most people don't join a startup because it's easy. They join because they want to build something that matters. At 24Flow, we're on a mission to help Europe's make-to-order manufacturers become more productive. That means replacing spreadsheets, firefighting, and tribal knowledge with software that operators, planners, and managers actually enjoy using. To keep growing, we're looking for three new colleagues. 🚀 Account Executive – Own the entire sales cycle and help manufacturers improve the way they work. 📈 Medior Digital
- JUST DO IT 🧨Wat mij het meest is bijgebleven van ons event bij Voortman? Dat succesvolle digitale transformatie begint met de beslissing om gewoon te starten. Wat Welisa, Voortman en 24Flow verbindt, is onze gedeelde passie voor de maakindustrie én de overtuiging dat Salesforce veel meer is dan een CRM-platform. Het is een fundament waarop je end-to-end bedrijfsprocessen kunt digitaliseren. Welisa helpt maakbedrijven om sales- en serviceprocessen te transformeren. Bij 24Flow bouwen we verder op diezelfde basis om planning,
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