Planning and Scheduling

• 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 algorithm 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 company calendar to specify working days, holidays and use for scheduling and MRP.
• Specify shifts and capacity for each capacity family and/or machines
• Adjust capacity for each day, month, 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 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 managed by communicating what work orders can be started, or are about to move into the department.
• Operator can pull drawings, routing instructions etc. directly from the dispatch list.
• Time reporting allows dispatch list to communicate progress on a work order.
• Balance hours are automatically computed and notifications generated – if work order is running late.