Enable Better Flow and Change How You View Shop Floor Production Capacity

No matter which traditional planning methods manufacturers use, the schedules generated by capacity-loading software often lead to frustration.

Time: The Silent Killer of Shop Floor Production

While it’s not as obvious or visible as a broken machine or an employee absence, time mismanagement is more often a silent killer of shop floor production.

6 Common Production Scheduling Mistakes Manufacturers Make

While there isn’t a shortage of technology or methods to help shops plan for an ideal production picture — execution is another ballgame entirely.

Stop Trying to DIY Your Shop Floor Production Schedule in Excel

When you’re trying to juggle dozens of work orders, it’s tempting to cut to the chase and go straight to the whiteboard or Excel spreadsheet to draft your shop’s production schedule.

The Only Shop Floor Scheduling Best Practice That Truly Matters

If you’re struggling with traditional production scheduling or simply tired of its false promises, then it’s time to re-examine the only shop floor scheduling best practice that really matters.

Stop Looking For the “Optimal” Production Scheduling Solution

Which of you readers like computational math? If you do, jump to the next paragraph, if you don’t I’ll cut to the chase – understanding that finding a mathematical solution that produces an “optimal” production schedule is a more challenging version of the Travelling Salesman problem, our dilemma of finding a solution then falls into the class of “Non-deterministic Polynomial” problems and therefore, it is unsolvable.

3 Reasons Why Production Scheduling is Not Working for You

For the last 40 years manufacturers have been looking to their ERP’s Finite Capacity Scheduling or bolt-on “Advanced Planning & Scheduling” (APS) tools to help them deliver their production orders (“jobs” or “Work-orders”) to their customers on time.