That’s a big number- it actually is larger than the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy! It represents the dollar amount of unfilled orders in an average month in the US. It’s half of the national GNP and its impact on the profitability of US manufacturers is huge. This cost impact is felt… READ MORE
What we’re seeing right now with manufacturing and COVID-19 is that an already very limited resource — people — are now even more strained and limited in manufacturing production. Which means now is not the time to simply double down on existing production management strategies and processes that may not translate easily to a remote working… READ MORE
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. The everyday process to use these traditional scheduling tools comprises running a software program that looks at… READ MORE
IndustryWeek webinar: Why Current Production Scheduling Tools Aren’t Helping You Deliver On-Time – and How to Fix It Date: Thursday, August 9, 2018 Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT (GMT -4, New York) Duration: 1 Hour Event Type: Live Webinar Cost: Free REGISTER TODAY! Description Tremendous strides have been made over the last 50 years in Production Scheduling. Once an extremely manual and time-consuming process, most of… READ MORE
These articles are portions of a lecture presented to APICS by our friend Gene Caiola. In our last blog segment titled “Protected Flow Manufacturing – A Revolutionary New Approach” we explained the concept behind Protected Flow Manufacturing and how it differs from Finite Scheduling, in this blog we’ll be rocketing into the future… Protected Flow… READ MORE
These articles are portions of a lecture presented to APICS by our friend Gene Caiola. In our last segment titled “MRP Trouble, Enter Finite Scheduling” we left off we left off after Finite Scheduling led to planning around constrained resources… But Finite Scheduling Was Not Easy In theory Finite Scheduling would seem to be the… READ MORE