Manufacturing Scheduling and Shop Floor

Manufacturing Scheduling and Shop Floor

A manufacturing client requested DragonPoint’s assistance in designing and developing custom applications to:
  • Schedule orders to the shop floor.
  • Track shop floor results, including monitoring real-time results from PLCs.
In addition, both applications had to work across multiple plants in different time zones.   The scheduling application requirements included:
  • Accessing sales orders from the back-office system via an API.
  • Reading bill of materials for each sales order from another API.
  • Accessing shop floor results, including the production history of each part in the bill of material, from a different API.
  • Consolidating all the data to provide the scheduler with a streamlined process for generating work orders for the shop floor.
  • Ability to schedule a sales order (for one plant) across multiple plants, factoring in necessary lead times to allow transportation of completed parts to another plant, where final assembly occurs.

The system achieved the client’s goals of reducing the time required to schedule orders and improving on-time completion of customer orders.

 

In addition to creating work orders for customer sales orders, the scheduling system incorporates service orders and replacement parts into the work orders process.

The shop floor data collection system integrates with PLCs to provide a real time graphic representation to the operators of the volume of material consumed, significantly reducing the scrap quantity for parts that fall outside allowed QA parameters.

The shop floor data collection system also provides operators with graphical work instructions for each product and sends production results to the scheduling system, where the information in factored into part history to continue to improve the work order creation process.

DragonPoint has designed and developed numerous custom manufacturing systems that significantly improve business results by replacing spreadsheets and disconnected applications with an integrated solution.  In addition to multiple scheduling and shop floor data collection systems, DragonPoint has developed manufacturing systems for:

  • Quality control
  • Packing
  • Logistics
  • Shipping
  • Warehouse and inventory management
  • Physical inventory
  • Sales and prospects

In addition to creating complete manufacturing solutions, DragonPoint has provided business intelligence and reporting modules that work with our custom applications or with off the shelf software packages such as Sage and Microsoft Dynamics.

Call us at 321-631-0657 to find out more about how we can use our experience to design a custom manufacturing software solution that exactly fits your business.

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