Conducting The Manufacturing Orchestra…..
My sister, as a child, learned to play the Violin. At first, this was an awful noise where even the cat would bolt out of the house straight into a torrential rainstorm rather than being within earshot. It soon developed however into a nice balanced tone, at times. I wondered whether I could do the same and started learning to play the recorder. Not a good idea. We shall say no more. My sister however, … Read More
Tags: Scheduling, Work-Orders, Planning
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 … 
For the final installment of this series on components, I will discuss the solution that the Valor Division has for dynamic build order management. One of the neglected areas of PCB manufacturing is being able to sequence and then react to the day to day challenges of meeting production goals. For example, when many different products needs to be built, on multiple lines, with different configurations …