Production Planning

These tools provide a high level view of all Work Orders, regardless of status and also the current view of production on the PRESS’s.

The 2 Components in this area:

1. Rolling Production Schedule - a place to Jungle production requests

2. Production Run system manages the current assigned Work Orders on Molding Machine PRESSs

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• These 2 components are linked by WO Numbers and share a common Status field.

• The WO Worksheet is the shared Edit Screen for both components.

The First Component is:

The Rolling Production Schedule, is an index of all requested & current in production WOs by Sales and Accounting.

• The Rolling Production Schedule reflects all the Production WO's that have been requested and all that are in production.

• Dates and Status's can be quickly and easily changed on the linked WO Worksheet and reflected on the scheduling screen.

• The Supervisors have access to this screen also to track upcoming Work Orders.

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The Second Component is:

The Production Run (PR) System manages the current production on the PRESSs.

• This control panel is shared with current Shift Supervisors, who may have to make adjustments through-out the Shift.

• up to 4 WO's can be assigned to a particular PRESS at a time.

• A PR configuration can be scheduled to a future start date.

• BUT Normally PR configurations on a particular PRESSs reflect a series of similar Work Orders and PARTs that use the small Mold Base type.

• PRs Roll Over to the Next PR. This allow overlapping WO's to be moved from current (closing) Production Run to the immediate next Production Run.

• Testing PR Configuration - AND also allowing time for each new PR configuration to setup and tested correctly.

• The Key Production Parameters (KPP) system is tightly connected to the PR control panel and the required Testing sequence before each PR can go into actual production

• The PR ties together via Production WO Status Quality Control and Quantity produced.

• The PR control panel screens are the definition of what is currently appearing in the Daily Production Report Index.