Factory Scheduling

Factory Scheduling includes the following capabilities:

• Schedule the operations in the production plan. Input data includes the resources available, the work orders to process, the progress of operations, deadlines, and planning constraints.
• Analyze the resulting schedule in Gantt charts and diagrams, with features to identify delays, bottlenecks, and periods of overload or overcapacity.
• Check performance indicators on the current schedule, and compare them with reference values.
• Bring changes to the schedule, to fine-tune it, solve issues, or deal with urgent requests.
• Provide your organization with useful data, such as the planned start and end dates of work orders, and whether work orders are ready for execution or not.

Factory Scheduling is a native app you can start from the Compass.

Part of the data you work with in Factory Scheduling comes from other apps. For example, the resources and resource calendars in the production plan come from the Factory Resource Management app.

Once you have scheduled and saved the production plan with Factory Scheduling, other apps can use that information. For example, Manufacturing Operations Management can use the sequences of operations scheduled on the resources by Factory Scheduling as a work schedule for resources and teams. Similarly, when you release a work order in Factory Scheduling, Manufacturing Operations Management knows that the teams can start processing that work order.

Another example is Production Plan Cockpit, a dashboard app you can use to monitor the production plan, and the schedule created with Factory Scheduling.