Production Scheduling
PALS - Production and Labour Scheduler is a production management tool developed with the assistance of Production Manager to efficiently Plan, Schedule and Manage Factory Workflow as well as their staff “Resources”. It is a tool that assists Factory Managers change Production priorities with minimal disruption to work flow. Originally designed for Window and Door manufacturing companies, it can be used in a number of industries.
A few key features are:
- Ability to define your own Production processes and Factory Resources.
- Automatic and Manual job allocation to fully utilize available factory resources. Job progress information is collected and the forward production schedule is automatically updated based on feedback.
- Facilitates automatic Job Imports from V6 (and other Estimation software). Can also work as a stand-alone application but benefits significantly from labour data importation.
- Simple, easy to use and configure with self explanatory menus.
- Excellent ‘drag and drop’ functionality for most features helps to save Manager’s administrative time.
- Creates a flowchart of Work types showing the sequence of their execution.
- Time lag between various tasks can easily be defined. PALS considers this time when allocating/scheduling a job.
- Schedule board provides a quick overview of daily Job allocation and an estimation of time/capacity still available.
- Detailed production board may be used as a planning/estimating tool by Sales Staff. It provides details of available factory working hours, overtime capacity with existing estimations and allocations.
- Presents all important company data on one dashboard.
- Workers can easily update production status using the PALS Worker module. Mangers may choose to show or hide the estimated duration of the task from workers.
- Can seamlessly operate under multiple factories (locations) scenarios using remote access, e.g. Terminal Services.
- A variety of easily customizable reports such as Job Schedule, Job Statistics etc. along with comprehensive performance reports to provide detailed worker statistics. A great tool for worker performance management.
- Upon completion Jobs can be archived. Search functionality can be used to retrieve archived jobs or search for open Jobs.
- Reminders can be setup for each Job and Warning messages can be prompted for all overdue tasks.
- Ability to define a work calendar hierarchy for each factory, worker and thus manage workers attendance, overtime and scheduled or unscheduled leaves.
- Ability to re-allocate/re-schedule a job due to worker unavailability or other higher priority job. A Job’s priority of a Job can be changed by an authorized person to ensure resources are allocated to it ahead of lower priority Jobs.
- Records both estimated time and the actual time spent by the worker on a Job; this helps in calculation of worker productivity.
Benefits:
- Automatic and Efficient Scheduling.
- Accurate Delivery estimates resulting in lower Customer waiting periods.
- Optimal use of Factory Resources ultimately reducing direct Labour costs.
- Overall Factory and Worker Performance Management.
- Identifies Production Bottlenecks which if removed will lead to improved productivity.
- Identifies needs for training of staff in certain tasks (bottlenecks).
- Ensures Priority Jobs are managed efficiently within the overall production process.
- Provides a platform for well organized and timely production.
Compatibility and Integration:
- Compatible with all Windows Operating Systems, Win98 and higher and Windows Server systems higher than Win2K.
- Uses MS SQL as the database server and is compatible with SQL 2000 and higher. It is also compatible with other SQL-based database engines, e.g. Oracle.
- Can easily integrate with other third party software to extract job Labour data.
