PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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Using E-max even the most complex job is split into its base constituents, typically operations and purchased materials and components. Each of these is automatically allocated a required date thro a customer defined set of rules.

Thus:

  • production or purchasing people can "chase" suppliers or production staff and ensure their portion of the job is done by the due date.
  • " late operations or materials are instantly identified
  • planning tasks in future weeks is dead easy
  • The visual nature of Emax RM6 ensures controllers can view and change the status of all operations in a job.

INFINITE CAPACITY PLANNING

Where planning is too variable or there is insufficient production control staff, this is often the only practical approach.

  • this automatically allocates operations to a week and compares capacity with load.
  • where allocating operations to machines is too onerous, processes are used
  • priorities more easily established
  • operations can be moved from week to week or outsourced
  • bottleneck work-centres identified and planned in detail

FINITE SCHEDULING

Finite scheduling can be used to schedule work at key work centres. When anything changes that affects the schedule it automatically re-calculates the dates when the works order and sales orders are going to be completed . For example:

  • clocking onto or off a job via shop floor data collection
  • new works orders raised or amended
  • resetting job priorities or amending calendars
  • moving a job to a different machine/workcentre

Often it is too much effort to allocate work centres to each operation so one can finite load key bottleneck machines and analyse the rest of the load through infinite scheduling.

One can also plan jobs at the very last minute and move operations to free or lightly loaded work centres a short time before work starts.

Extremely fast algorithms are used to calculate completion dates so even the largest schedule takes a short time to calculate.

A visual scheduler with powerful drill-down facilities comes with the software.