| ManEx Solution - 17 - Work Center Priorities and Scheduling |
ManEx Case Solution
ManEx has several standard and optional features designed to help with identifying bottlenecks and setting work center priorities and schedules.
- Dynamic Production Scheduling* - This screen allows production managers to monitor and track a jobs progress through the production floor. It sets priorities based on slack time and allows managers to adjust those priorities as needed. It also communicates those priorities to production workers so they know the most important jobs, in their work centers, at any given time and can focus their attentions where it can do the most good. The production schedules are adjusted each day to account for the process made that day and the update priorities as needed.
- Capacity Critical Path* - This screen gives immediate visibility of potential bottle necks by allowing the user to select a date (grouped by day, week, or month) and/or work center and see the capacity and load. This information is available as soon as a job is in the system and scheduled. This can provide sufficient time to adjust the schedule or the capacity as needed and maximize throughput.
- Open Work Order List - This screen provides a summary of all open jobs in production and allows users to sort by WO, Customer, Due Date, and Status. It also shows the build quantity, how many are complete, and the balance. This can help production workers know which jobs are in process and when they are due.
- WO Shortage Summary List - This list identifies component shortages by WO, WC, and part number. By displaying which parts are currently missing and expected delivery quantities and dates, this screen helps production identify critical shortages and adjust the schedule as needed.
- Web Based Order Simulation* - This screen allows users to enter and assembly, requested quantity, and requested date. It evaluates processing time and material availability and indicates how many can be done by the requested date, when the full quantity can be done (worst case scenario), and the components currently preventing an on-time delivery with short quantity and expected lead time.
- Customer On-time Delivery Reporting* - The report in eManEx will allow users to show on-time delivery performance for selected assemblies or customers over a selected period of time. This enables production to evaluate their current processes and process changes to see how it impacts on-time performance. This report is also available as a third party ad-on. As part of our plans to help all users get the most of their system and leverage our focus and features, we have the first user develop report available for on-time delivery reporting. This report was created by a ManEx user and can be used by other ManEx users to evaluate their on-time performance and make necessary adjustments and improvements. If you are interested in this report, please contact sales@manex.com.
NE Company started using slack time and capacity in their prioritization and have realized important gains in their on-time performance. Within a three month period, they were able to increase their on-time deliveries to over 90% and they expect that number to steadily increase as they complete the previously existing orders already behind schedule.
As they expected and hoped, with few exceptions, they were able to achieve this level of performance without rushing their orders and accruing extra man hours on each job, thereby preserving their profits and quality.
*may require the purchase of an optional module
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| Article ID: 3249 |
