In today’s fast-paced manufacturing industry, optimizing production scheduling is crucial for efficient operations and meeting customer demands. While many companies still rely on Excel spreadsheets for production scheduling, it’s time to reconsider this outdated approach and embrace modern software solutions that offer seamless automation and optimization. Excel Production Schedule: Pros and Cons of a Familiar… READ MORE
Shop floor management holds immense importance in the realm of manufacturing. It is the linchpin ensuring smooth operations, optimal performance, and overall success. Manufacturers can achieve improved efficiency and productivity by effectively coordinating and managing all activities that transpire on the shop floor. By efficiently utilizing resources such as machines, materials, and labor, shop floor… 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