Planning and Scheduling

BE ON TOP OF YOUR JOB SCHEDULES FOR OPTIMUM RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND MINIMAL COSTS.

OmegaCube ERP’s Production Planning and Scheduling module automate planning & scheduling workflows considering all available resources such as machines, materials, and manpower. It ensures optimum inventory levels, uninterrupted production, improved capacity utilization, and on-time delivery to customers.

Scheduling & Manufacturing Execution

• Analyze current and future load on work centers and departments.
• Automatically update dispatch list after scheduling run.
• Predict and alert shop floor operators about late running work orders.
• Link machine and employee expertise in capacity calculations.
• Utilize backward and forward scheduling algorithms for efficient scheduling.
• Drive scheduling based on material availability.
• Automatically adjust work order due dates, based on sales order due dates, when work orders are linked.
• Queue and move hours incorporated into scheduling calculations.
• Utilize data from time reporting to compute progress and determine on-time completions.

Flexible Capacity

• Define capacity based on employee hours, individual machines or groups of machines, shift, day, and month.
• Use the company calendar to specify working days, and holidays and use it for scheduling and MRP.
• Specify shifts and capacity for each capacity family and/or machines
• Adjust capacity for each day, month, and shift.
• Link tool and machine downtime into capacity calculations.

Scheduler Functions

• Adjust capacity by shift, day, or month.
• Analyze load in capacity centers by day, month, percentage or hours.
• Review the Gantt chart to see how the work orders will progress in time.
• Analyze short-term and long-term capacity.
• Monitor what work orders are running late.

Shop Floor Communication and Manufacturing Execution

• Dispatch list by department automatically adjusts based on scheduling output.
• Work execution is managed by communicating what work orders can be started, or are about to move into the department.
• The operator can pull drawings, routing instructions, etc. directly from the dispatch list.
• Time reporting allows the dispatch list to communicate progress on a work order.
• Balance hours are automatically computed and notifications are generated – if the work order is running late.

Material Requirement Planning

Material Requirement Planning (MRP) in OmegaCube ERP helps manufacturers to accurately calculate the number of materials and components to manufacture a product. The calculation takes into account, the total number of orders in hand, existing inventory levels, and the delivery due date. Based on these parameters, material procurement is initiated from approved suppliers.

Shop Floor Management

Shop Floor Management in OmegaCube ERP helps manufacturers to get a real-time view of their shop floor operations, track & improve resource utilization, improve yield quality, meet compliance standards, reduce machine breakdown/idle time and improve overall efficiency.

Manufacturing Execution System

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in OmegaCube ERP tracks, communicates, and controls minute-by-minute updates of shop floor operations and manufacturing workflows. With technology integration such as Nesting, Machine Monitoring, Barcode & labeling, CAD, and Shipping applications, manufacturers can take proactive decisions based on comprehensive data updates.