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Real Time Scheduling

As more and more manufacturers realise the benefits that automated Lean Manufacturing can bring and endeavour to 'make to order' rather than 'make to stock' many manufacturing companies remain unclear how to obtain this utopia. How do you move beyond Spreadsheets, Wall Boards and MRP? And how do you integrate with your other systems including ERP?

Every company has a plan, to make products, to achieve profit, to buy components and raw materials, to maximise asset use to achieve the overall business objectives. The plan has to be scheduled to allow work to be done. Advanced Planning and Scheduling enables companies to create achievable plans and schedules based on a combination of demand, manufacturing and inventory constraints and business rules, whether this is applied to a single machine to a complete supply chain.

Lean Manufacturing is pivotal upon scheduling, and is the antithesis of “What do we do now?” Lean Manufacturing requires an optimal schedule that can react quickly to external event, for example, rush order and equipment breakdowns. What is to be done next is in the schedule and is not a loss-making pause for operator consideration. Scheduling is increasingly a necessary and vital part of manufacturing IT, and the tools are available to connect this with real-time events to make the process responsive to actual events. This is real time scheduling, an EmsPT speciality, successfully helping our customers to stay competitive and to offer more flexible customer service.

Working the Preactor’s APS at the core, EmsPT has developed Nexus to make connection with real-time events achievable and to cost-effectively deliver business benefits.

Get in touch with EmsPT where specialist consultants can advise you on how to proceed from whatever stage your investigations have reached and also discuss your broader Business Intelligence requirements. Don’t ever have to look around and say “What do we do now?” again!