As a production planner, you need to adjust your production plan frequently. Changing customer demand, material shortages, die, tooling and plant equipment issues are problems faced daily by most manufacturing operations.

A production system should provide the information you need to make your production environment run as efficiently as possible. Central to our production system is flexibility which lets you control/adjust your production schedule to meet your changing environment. Jobs can be scheduled by batch size, or make-to-order.

Possible production problems are highlighted in several production screens and allow for easy manipulation. Build quantities can be easily changed on the fly, removed, moved up/down in the priority list or inserted into the schedule. As changes to the production schedule are made, they are immediately reflected on terminals used by work center operators, plant team leaders, and material planners.

Features include:

• Finite capacity scheduling, which considers your actual production capacity
• Batch size by operation to smooth scheduling
• Freeze portions of the schedule
• Producing multiple parts at an operation (eg: twins)
• Multiple operators
• Outside process operations
• Production scheduler and team leader work center split screens to display
• customer & production orders
• F/G & WIP inventories
• tooling status
• raw material inventory
• Press load analysis
• Work center efficiency reporting
• Work center availability by shift
• Scheduling of downtime by work center
• Integration with tooling system to show tooling availability
• Job dependencies between operations