Advanced Production Scheduling Engine

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.

What ShopEdge Software can do for you:

  • You have finite capacity scheduling, which considers your actual production capacity. There is also smoother scheduling with a Batch size operation

  • You have the ability to freeze portions of the schedule or produce multiple parts at an operation (e.g.: twins)

  • There is and easy mechanism in place for opting to use multiple operators and/or outside process operations

  • You can have the production scheduler and team leader work center split screens to display customer & production orders to improve coordination

  • There is instant visibility to finished goods (F/G) and work in progress (WIP) inventories, tooling status and raw material inventory to enable your decisions and cut costs

  • With press load analysis and work center availability by shift you can improve OEE

  • Powerful reporting on work center efficiency and scheduling of downtime by work center can help you optimize your work flow

  • When you have both integration with tooling system to show tooling availability and simultaneous detail on job dependencies between operations you get improved production efficiency