Provide rapid, reliable delivery of complex high-tech products.
Short product life cycles, intense global competition, and complex production processes demand continual innovation, high quality products, and agility. Managing resource effectively to produce for on-time delivery at minimum cost is critical. Add subcontracted operations, long lead-time materials, and frequent order changes and the result is a tough day-to-day challenge for production planners to manage, let alone optimize, use of production resources.
How do you:
- Quickly and easily create updated production schedules that will get orders done on-time without requiring expensive overtime
- Ensure that production schedules take equipment, material, and labor constraints into account thus ensuring that plans are realistic and reliable
- Evaluate proposed schedule changes to understand their impact on existing commitments
Your planning and scheduling system will:
- Create production schedules that take your demand, inventory, and resource availability into account with the click of a button
- Identify resource bottlenecks in advance when low-cost alternatives still exist
- Remove waste from your manufacturing process by producing to order dates thus minimizing inventory costs and WIP on the shop floor
Key Software Features for Medical Devices and Instruments scheduling:
- Schedule equipment, labor, and material constraints simultaneously on each production operation
- Optimize production schedules based on combined business objectives such as maximizing on-time delivery while minimizing setup times and inventory
- Multi-planner collaborative scheduling that allows planners to work together to manage interrelated production resources
- Easy drag-and-drop schedule adjustment to enable planners to adjust the computer-generated plan according to their insights and experience
- What-If scenarios that can be compared to understand the impact of proposed schedule changes or alternative resource plans
- Detailed resource calendars that adjust schedules based on labor and equipment availability