Improve delivery time commitments
- See your schedule at one glance.
- Understand the impact of squeezing in a rush order.
- Focus on those jobs that require your attention now.
Book your Job Shop Scheduling meeting
Improve your delivery time commitments and maximize your throughput with the most effective production scheduling tool for Make-to-Order.
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Book your meeting with Steven if you are in the Americas region or with Lawin if you are in EMEA or APJ and improve your on-time deliveries faster.
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Easy production scheduling for high-mix low-volume manufacturers
Stop improvising your machine shop scheduling on a whiteboard or with homegrown Excel sheets. Just Plan It is an easy-to-use, Gantt chart-based, automatic finite scheduling software. Improve your delivery time commitments, better utilize your resources and react faster to unplanned incidents.
Gain transparency of your shop-floor operations
Maximize throughput
- Identify bottlenecks at one glance.
- Take immediate action by drag & drop scheduling .
- Get direct information from your shop-floor workers
Optimize machine utilization
- Automatic, priority-based scheduling supports all your actions.
- Quickly add extra-time and see the impact of machine down-times.
- Optimize your level of outsourcing.
What you get from easy production scheduling
Although job shops and machine shops often are comparably small enterprises, job shop scheduling and machine shop scheduling belongs to the most complex scheduling challenges at all. This is attributed to the characteristics of a typical job and machine shop:
- Jobs with small batch sizes using shared resources
- Jobs with different routings, due dates and priorities
- Volatile environment: permanent need to quickly react to short-term incidents
The job shop and machine shop scheduling challenge
There are some characteristics that make scheduling especially challenging for machine shops:
Runtimes of operations can only be estimated roughly, and need to be adapted during execution constantly
Clients change their minds and modify their orders
Suppliers do not deliver on time or in quality
Machines break down or need to be maintained
Necessity to do some rework as the quality was not as expected
Need to squeeze in a "hot job" for no1 customer
Typically, standard enterprise software packages are rather complex, expensive, and require relevant IT skills. Hence, they often are not the appropriate solution for machine shops. Instead, many SMB make-to-order manufacturers tend to manage their shop schedule with homegrown Excel spreadsheets. Well, they might not be expensive in terms of the purchase price, but they require high manual maintenance, hardly scale with the business and they do not provide any kind of automatic support.