Streamline operations for increase performance.
Managing a manufacturing operation presents constant challenges: new products are introduced, customers demand rapid delivery and product customization, materials are delivered late, equipment goes down, employees are absent, and pressure is ever-increasing to cut costs on top of it all. To be truly successful in such a demanding environment requires that you and your team have the right tools for the job. By harnessing the power of today's computers you can enable your people to respond more quickly to change, use resources more effectively, and reach performance levels that are simply not possible with manual systems.
How do you:
- Ensure that all of your production resources are used as effectively as possible to deliver the right products at the right time
- Minimize manufacturing costs while maximizing responsiveness
- Alleviate the risk of relying on undocumented knowledge and custom, disconnected spreadsheets to manage your production planning
With your new planning and scheduling system you will:
- Know that your resources are used effectively every hour of every day since scheduling will be automated around your business drivers
- Have a well-defined, rational, and documented easily learned process of creating and updating production schedules
- Cut manufacturing costs by increasing resource utilization, avoiding unnecessary setups and cleanups, save on non-value added time spent updating spreadsheets and expediting orders, and reduce WIP on the shop floor
Key Features and Services:
- Multi-factor optimization that allocates resources around your business drivers such as: on-time delivery, reduced cost, and maximized revenue
- Simultaneous scheduling of equipment, labor, tooling and materials for actionable schedules that everyone can rely on
- Easy to use scheduling tools that your planners will learn quickly and use every day