Fitrix Production Scheduling gives you the tools to maximize efficiency while reducing costs. You can view at a glance which resources are being under or over utilized and can adjust your production accordingly to balance the load. As new orders are placed or existing order due dates change, you can see real time the effect on your production capacity. The application also provides recommendations to changes in order due dates based on the work remaining to be done.
Features/Function Highlights
Period Intervals
- Define how the future is to be divided into time periods
- Multiple period intervals may be defined
- Used to display and print future production activity by time period
Capacity Maintenance
- Allows for non-standard override of daily capacity, by shift, for Work Center, Department, Teams, Machines
Reschedule Operations
- Recalculates operation due dates when order due dates are changed
Work List Inquiries and Reports
- Display the status of operations for open orders by resource. Types of operations include Active, Waiting, Arriving
- Resource types are Work Center, Department, Teams, Machines
Capacity Inquiries
- Displays capacity and load for a given resource, with overload or under-load percentage
- Resources analyzed are Work Center, Department, Teams, Machines
- User-defined period intervals to view loads in a variety of formats
- Drill-down from period load to details of orders and operations
- Review alternates for an overloaded resource
Reschedule Recommendations
- Report which highlights recommendations for changes in order due dates based on work remaining