Production Management
FactoryTalk Scheduler
Overview
FactoryTalk® Scheduler is a client/server application that is an integrated part of the FactoryTalk product suite. FactoryTalk Scheduler allows you to generate a detailed, finite-capacity schedule that provides a view into the future.
Why is FactoryTalk Scheduler the right solution for your enterprise?
- FactoryTalk Scheduler helps manufacturers actively manage the flow of orders through production.
- FactoryTalk Scheduler cuts overtime, set-ups, and work-in-process while increasing throughput and delivery date.
- FactoryTalk Scheduler is a finite-capacity scheduler (FCS) that considers real production constraints, thereby producing a realistic, attainable production schedule. Direct result is increased customer satisfaction.
- It takes a proactive stance in generating a production schedule by considering constraints (e.g., labor, tools, materials, machines, current plant-floor status) when creating a production schedule, thus enabling users to plan production, rather than react to it.
- FactoryTalk Scheduler allows users to see — with its familiar Gantt-style planning board — the potentially negative effects of a new rush job or priority order. A more intelligent decision can be made as to whether the order should be rushed.
- It offers a wide variety of scheduling rules (e.g., due date, priority, least setup time, etc.) and analysis tools (e.g., reports, charts, metrics) to assist in creating a quality production schedule.
- The production planner has complete scheduling control through use of the manual drag-and-drop scheduling combined with algorithmic- or simulation-based scheduling rules.
- Consulting services are available from a functional specification defining the production model to full, turnkey implementations of the FactoryTalk Scheduler system.
Using FactoryTalk Scheduler, production schedulers can identify and act on late orders; manage capacities and constraints, including labor and material; and identify consequences of making changes, like expediting orders. FactoryTalk Scheduler allows total resource management and, most importantly, provides time to react to unintended consequences.