Finite Production Scheduling
Finite scheduling enables you to prepare realistic production plans, based upon the actual capacity of your resources. It ensures that operations are only scheduled when the necessary resources are available, by tracking and maximising the utilisation of your machinery, manpower and anything else that is a constraint 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.
This form of 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.
