Scheduling
All Works Orders (and underlying Sub-Assemblies or Components of an Assembly) are
expanded to their constituent Operations and Scheduled using Manufacturing Instruction
based Operations and Times are if present - otherwise Quotation details are used.
All these Operation details are then amalgamated, by day, to provide the overviews
of Planned vs Available Capacity. Available Capacities are specified through Resource
Codes which represent the various Machines or Processes within your company.
Each Resource Code is specified with a Daily Overall Capacity Available (No. of
Machines x Normal Working Hours per Day) and Maximum Capacity to be Planned against
any one Job per Day (Normal Working Hours per Day).
In addition a Percentage is specified against each day of the week which reflects
each days available capacity as a percentage of the Normal Working Hours (e.g. Monday
to Thursday may be 100% with Friday being 60% and Saturday being 20% - thus representing
a typical early finish on Fridays and Morning Shift on Saturdays).
All Scheduled Works Orders are viewed and monitored from a Works Order Command Screen
from which it is possible to see:
- Planned Start Dates (in RED if late) and Finish Dates
- Source of Scheduling Data for each W/O (i.e. Manufacturing Instructions or Quotation
or Not Scheduled)
- Drill down to see Customer Order make-up of Works Order
- Drill Down to see Operation and Time make-up of Works Order
- Graphical Calendar based Plan showing days when each Operation is Planned and (in
a different colour) the Actual Progress alongside
- Detailed record of Time Bookings to each Operation by Employee
- Drill Down to all associated Purchase Orders for any Works Order
- An overview graphical Calendar based Plan of which weeks each W/O is Scheduled
- A graphical view of Scheduled Requirement for each Resource Group, against available
Capacity, that can then be drilled down to see the Planned W/O's for that week
It is also possible to:
- Re-Schedule an individual Works Order to a different Required Date
- Print an individual or group of Route Cards
The Major Benefits of this module are:
- The ability quickly and accurately to calculate and view a plan aqainst which management
can plan and prepare their actual production
- Production of Work To summaries by Resource Code for the Shop Floor Supervisors
so they, and their Team, have vision of, and can plan for, work coming through to
their Section and its relative importance and priority with other work
- Customer queries on progress of their Jobs easily answered via the Actual vs Plan
graphical display
FactoryMaster have integrated Preactor into their core product for customers who
require drag and drop scheduling, We ship a pre configured version of Preactor FCS
200 as standard but customers have the option of upgrading to other versions if
they need extra functionallity. FactoryMaster support all versions of Preactor.
Customers of FactoryMaster including existing customers can now take advantage of
this interface and have the added flexibility of utilising the functionality of
a dedicated and highly sophisticated scheduling package.