Production Schedules….Scheduled! – “General Guidelines”
In this post, I’d like to review some basic guidelines that most production planners and schedulers seem to agree upon. Not meant to be the cure-all defacto standard, but based on polling several factories of various sizes and strategy seems to be a core list.
1) Plan the schedule to ensure up to 99% capacity of the bottleneck operation … Read More
Tags: Scheduling, Production Planning, EMS
“Strategic Alignment”
There are many variables the influence meeting production schedules. One of which is factory strategic alignment.
The goals of a factory are heavily influenced by the incentive programs deployed in the factory. These incentives should be driven by that organization’s competitive strategy in their markets. Are they focused on advanced technology, low-cost producer, highest … Read More
Tags: Scheduling, Production Planning
Production planning is a dynamic problem to solve, as the variables seem infinite.
As more and more global regions move to high-mix with increasing volume production, the planning task of running multiple products effectively through existing assets and resources poses a significant scheduling challenge. Manufacturing plants today are challenged with shipping the required quantity of products on time, … Read More
Tags: Scheduling, Production Planning
Our electronics manufacturing factories today are finally picking up steam. This is creating pressure on many companies who are looking for ways to improve performance-to-schedule. One of the most important factors in attracting and keeping customers, is the ability to continuously meet delivery commitments for production and to keep the delivery time as short as possible. This is especially true in … Read More