By: Richard T. (“Dick”) Lilly My working life has been spent trying to create the best manufacturing control system that the technology at the time will allow. By trying to recount each reiteration, I come up with a count of eleven successive creations. A short history is as follows. IBM 1960-1968 I joined IBM as… READ MORE

The recurring nightmare for an owner of a small to medium-sized manufacturing business is the cost, complexity and lack of ROI of a traditional ERP system. However, new thinking and new cloud-based technology have given manufacturers lower risk and better tools to improve their performance. Read the full article at Freedom from “The Old Way” – Industrial… READ MORE

Manufacturing Webinar Let’s face it, “Manufacturing” was dropped by software vendors when MRP II turned to ERP in the mid-1990’s. The default functionality for managing production in ERP then and still today is traditional MRP and finite scheduling from the 1970’s and 80’s. And neither has changed much since then – over 40 years ago.… READ MORE

No matter which traditional planning methods manufacturers use, the schedules generated by capacity-loading software often lead to frustration. This is because the majority of shop production scheduling software allocates capacity in a way that doesn’t align with actual execution priorities. Using the due date to sequence jobs from earliest to latest, these systems take all… READ MORE

New integration will offer customers more robust scheduling functionality to improve on-time delivery ECI Software Solutions, a leader in cloud-based business management solutions, today announced a new strategic relationship with LillyWorks, Inc. to deliver Protected Flow Manufacturing™ (PFM) to its Macola® ERP software users. This new add-on will offer manufacturers a robust scheduling option to… READ MORE

Critical Ratio is arguably the best of the traditional priority alternatives for managing work flow in the plant. Once called “ingenious” by none other than Joe Orlicky because it establishes relative priorities accurately, Critical Ratio (divide the days available until the due date by the days of work left to be done on the job)… READ MORE

Critical Ratio is arguably the best of the traditional priority alternatives for managing work flow in the plant. Once called “ingenious” by none other than Joe Orlicky because it establishes relative priorities accurately, Critical Ratio (divide the days available until the due date by the days of work left to be done on the job)… READ MORE

Author: Lori Adams (CloudMFG, LLC) Many manufacturing companies struggle with traditional production scheduling methods. Common production scheduling methods range from Excel spreadsheets and white boards to Finite Scheduling programs embedded in ERP or Advanced Planning and Scheduling tools (APS). These traditional manufacturing scheduling methods tend to be “high” maintenance and are far too complex to manage… READ MORE

Hampton, NH — March 20, 2017 — Richard (Dick) Lilly, founder of LillyWorks™ has been honored as an Editor’s Pick in New Hampshire Business Review’s Best of Business 2017. Mr. Lilly established LillyWorks to maximize the benefits of new, revolutionary cloud-based ERP and Production Scheduling software to enable small manufacturers to deliver on time, in less time,… READ MORE

Protected Flow Manufacturing Empowers Manufacturers to Do More in a Competitive Market The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released the June employment numbers. Manufacturers should take note. Manufacturing added 37,000 jobs in July, with most of the gain in the durable goods component. Although the national unemployment rate is 3.9%, in manufacturing the unemployment rate… READ MORE