Say goodbye to production plans you can never hit
When your production-control team builds the weekly work-order schedule, the CommandRoom Production Management System automatically schedules every process too, so you can be confident the plan is achievable and makes full use of your people and machines.
Your planning process today
This is how planning works in your factory today
Production control roughly plans which work orders to prioritize each week, and the floor manufacturing supervisor allocates process work on the fly every day.
- Zero visibility into progress
- - when production control hands the weekly schedule to manufacturing, they have no way to know how much work will actually be finished a week later, so they spend large amounts of time every day chasing due dates
- Resources can't be fully utilized
- - the human brain isn't good at finding, among hundreds of weekly work orders and processes, the arrangement that fully uses resources while avoiding machine, mold, and staffing conflicts — so the reporting Gantt chart is riddled with wasted gaps
- A single person becomes the bottleneck
- - relying on the manufacturing supervisor to dispatch resources in real time makes that one person irreplaceable, and the moment anything changes the line no longer runs smoothly
Planning with the CommandRoom Production Management System
This is what planning looks like with the CommandRoom Production Management System
When production control plans the week's work orders, the system automatically dispatches the corresponding process work in a way that avoids conflicts and uses resources as fully as possible.
After each day ends, the system reschedules the remaining work based on that day's reporting records, making sure any work that's ahead or behind is properly arranged for the next day.
- Full visibility into progress
- - the moment production control finishes the weekly schedule, they know exactly which jobs can be completed within the week, and can flag any delays to the sales team right away
- Make full use of your resources
- - even with hundreds of processes each week, the system can produce a conflict-free schedule that fully utilizes your resources in very little time
- Resilience
- - with automated scheduling you can ensure fixed costs like staff and equipment deliver their full value, instead of being held hostage to any one person's experience or mood