Production Scheduling Software

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> <p>Production Scheduling software was traditionally based on infinite capacity assumptions in most ERP systems.  From the early 1980's it was possible to add third-party tools integrated with ERP to also deliver finite scheduling.    As a form of Production Scheduling software, Finite Capacity Scheduling (FCS) recognized finite capacity on work centers by defining working calendars, including specific holidays which can vary by work-center, or even by machine within each work center.  This improved scheduling gives manufacturing companies visibility of their capability to deliver a product when promised, a significant improvement in the state of the art.  </p> <p>From the mid 1990's Production Scheduling Software products were improved to offer "Advanced Planning and Scheduling"  (APS) which extended the  power of FCS by also recognizing material constraints, including both on-hand inventory as well as planned future materials deliveries from open Purchase Orders.   </p> <p>JobTime's Production Scheduling Software products now make Lean / Just-in-Time scheduling possible for many manufacturers.  Lean has become especially interesting today. The original Henry-Ford Black Model-T Ford version of "Lean" is based on a demand-pull variation of standard products, with as little variability as possible. In these cases, a useful tool is the concept of Line-Balancing, which defines optimal assignment of tasks to job-positions, and grouping job-positions into Cells.  In these environments, Lean succeeds especially well with low-variability value-line manufacturing. </p> <p>Lean is more challenging to implement in highly variable value-line applications, including job-shops, assembly shops, and engineer-to-order. Previously  Advanced Planning and Scheduling software was limited to repetitive, standard, high-volume and make-to-stock  production. JobTime Systems extends the Just in Time manufacturing principles into high-variability value-line manufacturing.  </p> <p>JobTime's production scheduling software models Finite Capacity Scheduling, according the to following elements: </p> <ul> <li>Working calendars that express working days of the week, shift lengths, and the starting time of each shift. </li> <li>Work Centers  mean "groups of like resources".  This normally includes equipment, tools, labor.  But JobTime's Production Scheduling software lets you expand secondary resource constraints to include additional types of resources which can influence plant capacity: peak power, available floor space, process-unit capacity, consumables, etc. </li> </ul> <p>To enhance production scheduling software, JobTime considers a broader definition of capacity in your shop.  Accurate constraint modeling  includes the ability to reflect shop conditions, which include, but are not limited to the following examples: </p> <ul> <li>Recognition of constraints on which alternate equipment work stations (or labor operators) can perform certain jobs</li> <li>Recognition of both a fixed setup time as well as a quantity dependent variable process time on each operation step.</li> <li>Recognition of multiple resource constraints demanded by the same operation such as equipment, tools, labor. </li> <li>Recognition of a variable crew size, fractional or multiple resources required,  per operation.</li> <li>Recognition of a split factor (number of splits allowed) per operation across multiple work stations of the work center.  </li> <li>Re-sequence jobs to group <font color="#ff0000"><b>setup matches</b> </font> between orders for optimal efficiency</li> <li>Earliest time-of-day to allow an operation to start, which can vary by part & routing (reflects constraints such as heat, humidity, light, or to limit work to specific shifts within the calendar)  </li> <li>Latest time-of-day to allow an operation to start, which can vary by part & routing (reflects  process cut-off timed, or shift preferences by part, within the work-center calendar) </li> <li>Resource seized and held during a series of consecutive operations (same operator throughout a series of tasks, avoid inter-stage obsolescence, or to guarantee downstream capacity).    </li> <li>Recognition of assembly sequencing constraints of work-orders assembly links that follow a given Bill-of-Materials product structure. </li> </ul> <p>JobTime Systems, Inc. (JSI), announced the world's first standalone PC-Based <b><font color="#0000ff"> Finite Capacity Scheduling</font></b> system in August, 1984.  Since that time, JSI has specialized in production scheduling software to improve  manufacturing on-time performance, and supports all current popular philosophies of scheduling.  </p> <p>JobTime has been applied successfully in discrete, repetitive, process, engineer to order and assemble to order manufacturing.   </p> <p>JobTime also gives you the modeling power you will need to implement Advanced Planning and Scheduling <b><font color="#ff0000">without</font></b> forcing you to learn computer programming.  We can show the typical shop scheduler, <b><font color="#0000ff">with 3 days of basic training,</font><font color="#ff0000"> </font></b>how to to accurately model your shop constraints for any environment, including make to order, assemble to order, engineer to order, and process manufacturing operations.    </p> <p>JobTime also supports longer range <b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="JT_Level4.htm"> Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)</a> .   </font></b>APS supports the supply chain, because it can see customer forecasts, vendor deliveries, and assured scheduling that will synchronize both material and capacity constraints over a long-term planning horizon.   Forecast demand and/or planned orders can be input from either ERP or JobTime's own <font color="#0000FF"><b> JobPlan </b></font>module to generate future work loads of 12 to 18 months into the future.  </p> <p>All JobTime scheduling products are <b><font color="#ff0000">Y2K compatible</font></b> and give <font color="#0000ff"><b>detailed scheduling</b></font> on each operation step of every work order, even down to the minute, while recognizing multiple resource constraints, and sequencing to optimize and group like setups in bottleneck work centers. </p> <p>JobTime's Advanced Planning and Scheduling can recognize <font color="#ff0000"><b> BOM make-item assembly</b></font> constraints, <font color="#008000"><b>ERP material supply pegging allocations, </b></font> all with <font color="#0000ff"><b> supporting activity drill-down, </b></font> accurately planned even down to the minute.   </p> <p>JobTime® 5 is also <b><font color="#ff0000">fast,</font></b> scheduling a true<b><font color="#008000"> 30,000 detailed operations per minute</font></b> on today's 2.0 Gigahertz PC's.   </p> <p>Computer speeds will vary with the complexity of modeling, and the total number of events required to fully process all the aspects of each operation.   </p> <p>JobTime helps you rapidly model the most detailed and challenging scheduling problems, without the need for complex computer programming, because JobTime modeling is based on standard data entry screens to select and enable features. </p> <p>JSI also offers a full range of services including:</p> <ul> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>analysis</b>, </font></li> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>modeling</b>, </font></li> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>training</b>, </font></li> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>integration</b>, </font></li> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>customization</b> </font>and </li> <li><font color="#0000ff"><b>support</b>.</font>  </li> </ul> <p>Our primary focus is <b><font color="#ff0000">Finite Capacity Short Interval Scheduling</font> </b>combined with <b><font color="#008000"> Advanced Demand and Capacity Planning</font>.  JobTime also supports Just-in-Time and Drum-Buffer-Rope scheduling capabilities. <font color="#ff0000">  </font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="Technology.htm">Technology</a>  <a href="Education.htm"> Education</a>  <a href="ContactUs.htm">Contact Us </a> <a href="SiteMapDiagram.htm">Site Map</a></b> </p> <p>  </p>  <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=6045335; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="d608afe7"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="counter for vBulletin" href="http://www.statcounter.com/vbulletin/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/6045335/0/d608afe7/1/" alt="counter for vBulletin" ></a></div></noscript>  </body>