Lean Mixed Model Planning and Scheduling Orders for Flow Lines with Automated Mandatory Shop Floor Transactions
When configured products are created, each individual job that makes up the final product needs to be produced on flow lines based on lean manufacturing principles. While these individual jobs provide flexibility in defining the products being produced, they demand a very regimented set of transactions to be performed in order for the final product to be completed well. Scheduling these individual jobs via job shop scheduling is very inefficient and cumbersome. Users require a simpler way to report production on flow lines and without being bothered with all the transactional burdens.
Inspirage’s Lean Manufacturing Solution allows schedulers in the industrial manufacturing, high tech, and medical devices industries to quickly promise customer orders after rapidly checking line capacities. Resulting jobs from back-to-back order processes can be slotted on flow manufacturing lines while taking into consideration capacities and product scheduling constraints. Scheduled jobs can be revisited and overridden to cater to the changing needs of the end customers. By identifying completion at the end of the flow lines, schedulers can automatically finalize all moves, address issues, and backflush transactions. The final outcome is more material control on the shop floor, resulting in a pull manufacturing system which is much more efficient than the push system.
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