Finite production scheduling

Decrease risk

Finite scheduling enables you to take your production scheduling to the next level - based upon the actual finite capacity of your resources and the rules you specify. It ensures that operations are only scheduled when the necessary resources are available, by tracking and maximising the utilisation of your machinery, manpower and other constraints on the production process. The outcome: you spend less time progress chasing and more time concentrating on the everyday challenge of balancing capacity with demand, thereby increasing efficiency and improving delivery times.

Managing WIP

This form of production scheduling helps work in progress to stay at a more constant level, with all the associated benefits: materials are only ordered when needed, inventory levels fall back, bottleneck resources are not overloaded and lead times become more predictable.

Individual process routes can be defined for each product and the system handles forwards, backwards and bi-directional loading of jobs.  You have complete control over resource states and efficiencies (finite and infinite), and - in addition to powerful in-built reporting - you can choose to manipulate your data using Gantt charts.