Objective: Create capacity based system to automate the scheduling of production jobs with minimal human oversight.
The Production Scheduling System was born out of the desire to increase efficiency on the factory floor through the reduction product transfers, setup changes, and downtime between jobs. Producing hundreds of jobs of all shapes and sizes daily presented challenges that needed to be met with automation rather than manpower. Through extensive time studies, back end programming, and front end user interface design, this system has matured into the backbone of our production facility.
Due to the nature of the promotional product industry, turn time is paramount. Scheduling hundreds of jobs into multiple departments on an ever evolving schedule just cannot be handled by humans in any sort of efficient manner. The utilization of this system saw immediate increases in productivity of over 20% and a reduction in missed ship dates by over 90%.