Production Planning & Scheduling - Shopfloor-Online Production
Make production planning and scheduling more agile in Discrete & Batch Manufacturing
How will you benefit from the Production Planning & Scheduling software module?
Still using spreadsheets for day-to-day production scheduling? With a production scheduling software, planners can visualise the plan in real-time, whilst optimising capacity and resources accurately.
The Production Planning & Scheduling module of Shopfloor-Online MES Software is the ideal solution to:
- Create production orders manually or download from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
- Sequence production orders on production lines/processes
- Identify line and machine changeovers, tool changes and material changes
- Schedule start and end dates based on master data like cycle time and order quantity
- Assess manufacturing capacity and ability to meet order deadlines
- Communicate the production schedule to the shop floor
- Get real-time feedback on the schedule as production executes
- Avoid the burden of a heavy finite capacity scheduling system
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What are the benefits of the Production Planning & Scheduling software module?
- Improve on-time delivery: visibility of delivery dates
- Save time: assigning orders to production lines/processes and optimising the plan
- Visualise the plan: production scheduling with real-time visibility for everyone; reduce unforeseen knock-on effects of planning decisions
- Communication: improve communication between the planners and production teams
- Instant feedback: when production is not achieving the plan, know what has and has not been done
- React faster: when production lines stop or run slow, the plan is updated in real-time
- Agility: adapt to change quicker and respond to unplanned events
- Improve resource management: optimise capacity and resources
- No more spreadsheets: schedule production on an Enterprise platform
Production Order Management
- Download orders from ERP (include BOMs and Routing if required)
- Manually create production orders (also called work orders) - useful in some scenarios
- Assign orders to lines and decide the running sequence
- Split large orders into a series of smaller orders, or run campaigns
Discrete Manufacturing
- Plan production for every operation in the routing
Batch Manufacturing
- Plan equipment for each batch at every stage of production
Production Planning
- View the sequence of production orders against each production line
- Automatically calculate start and end dates
- Highlight key information e.g. the status of each order; due date achievement
- Re-sequence by moving orders between lines and changing their position in the queue
- Reduce change-overs by grouping orders with common attributes e.g. materials, tools and colour
- Add job-specific instructions for operators
- Experiment with the schedule and release to production when complete
Real-time Updates
- Instantly communicate schedule changes to production
- If production slows or stops , the schedule is instantly revised
- If production equipment breaks down it is possible to redirect the orders to other compatible lines
Visualisation & Reporting
- Visualise the production schedule as a Gantt chart including change-overs, tool changes and material changes
- View schedule dependencies on materials, labour and tools
- Report conformance to schedule and demand
Sustainable Energy
►Ceres Power case study
Fuel cell manufacturer scales up production of a complex product through automation of 20 simultaneous processes.
Pharmaceuticals
►I-Holland case study
Precision tools manufacturer reduces lead times and waste through automated order processing and shop floor data collection.
Textiles
►John Cotton case study
Leading UK homewares supplier benefits from a sleeker production scheduling process, improved visibility and data accuracy with Shopfloor-Online MES.
The Production Planning & Scheduling module works with the Job Tracking software so that planned orders can be executed and planners can see orders progressing.
Further increase the power of Shopfloor-Online’s Production Planning & Scheduling software with additional modules:
- Production Counting – see order progression in real-time against the schedule, update start and end dates automatically and be alerted to any jobs that will miss the deadline
- Inventory Management – look at WIP or finished goods created out of the process as an alternate way of counting production and view progress as above
- Tool Management – plan specific tools to use
- Labour Tracking – project labour requirements to meet the schedule
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