Customisable
Display:
Highly customisable and easy-to-use planning board layout.
Visual
Display:
Up-to-the-minute view of plant and equipment utilisation for optimum
planning and employment of resources.
Easy-to-use
interface:
‘Drag-and-Drop’ interface to plan / un-plan / change whole jobs,
specific operations and events.
Full Screen
Mode:
Optional view to only show the essential elements of the schedule
board, e.g. resources and time-line to make optimum use of the
screen.
Twin Screen
Support:
Optimised layout to take advantage of low cost twin screen support
for maximum viewable area.
Colour Coded:
Customisable colour coded operation status for easier visibility.
Delay and
Overlap Feature:
Place a delay constraint on an operation before the next one can
commence, e.g. drying. Conversely, operations can be overlapped,
e.g. finishing can commence before the entire product is printed.
Lock
Operations:
Place specific constraints on whole jobs, sections or individual
operations to ensure they happen at a pre-agreed time.
Schedule
Scenarios
for “What
If?”:
Create unlimited scenarios that can be compared and when required,
applied to the current plan.
“What
Happened” Analysis:
Report on actual activity against planned activity. Useful for
examining the result of weekend plans.
Define
Overtime Periods:
Define unlimited allowed overtime periods per resource.
Maintenance
Scheduling:
Block out recurring maintenance periods where the resource is
unavailable for planning.
Assign
Overtime per
Job or
Resource:
Specify overtime capacity by resource, job, section or operation.
Work-To-lists:
Real-time onscreen Work-To-lists are provided for remote data
capture operators.
Late Jobs
Alert!:
Jobs that no longer meet their required date are automatically
flagged in the late list.
Capacity
Analysis:
Execute capacity analysis over a defined period to identify
potential future bottlenecks.
Quick Locate:
Find any operation for a job either in the planned, lifted or
unplanned areas.
Provisional
Jobs:
Create provisional jobs to reserve production capacity for potential
jobs.
Proof Event
Integration:
Integration with Events facility for outwork and proof events.
Audit Trail:
Audit trail of key scheduling events and status for display and
reporting.
Real-time
update of Plan:
Real-time feedback of shop floor activity to the scheduling board
via data capture terminals or JDF capable systems.
Out of
Sequence Alert:
Jobs that have started early or not as planned are shown as ghosted
effect on the planning board to alert the scheduler of the real-time
activity being processed out of the planned sequence.
Planned,
Un-planned,
Lifted and
Late Jobs List:
Quick to navigate and easy to create lists of all job-based
information.
Calendar
Navigation:
Unlimited Calendar with ‘Go-to-Today’ feature for speedy navigation.
Resource
Efficiency:
Define the current running efficiency of resource for new operators
or machine faults to automatically adjust running time of
operations.
Flag Resources
as
Unavailable
for Planning:
Quickly flag a resource a non-operational when load balancing across
equivalent resources.