Does your Manufacturing Process create more waste than necessary? Are your Manufacturing Personnel stressed? Do you believe a stable Production Schedule will decrease waste and improve morale?
Changes to the Production Schedule that are noticeable to operations and manufacturing can cause more harm than good. Before making any changes, the scheduler must weigh the pros and cons and decide if it is worth the wasted time, effort, and materials to make changes to the schedule. Once an order has been released to manufacturing a series of events takes place the scheduler must be aware of before making any changes to that order’s schedule. Materials are pulled, ingredients are pre-mixed, machines and tools are set-up, information and data are captured and shared, and employees time is consumed. All of these tasks and others must be completed within a certain amount of time before actual production begins.
To minimize this, lead times are setup for customer service and sales to follow to ensure there is enough time to secure materials and produce a product for shipment. Sometimes, making changes to the schedule within these lead times are necessary, however there is a proverbial point of no return where making a change will cause wastes.
In addition to lead times, identifying and adhering to a frozen period on the production schedule is a great way to minimize the waste caused by schedule changes.
Planet Together makes this easy by allowing you to set a frozen span and providing options to prevent jobs from being scheduled and updated within this Frozen Span.
The Frozen Span can be set for as little as 0 minutes to as high 2 years, so there are plenty of options to meet your frozen span requirements. When the Frozen Span is set, Planet Together has the option to start scheduling activities and jobs at the end of the Frozen Span. Planet Together adheres to this Frozen Span when scheduling jobs, and the scheduler will have to manually make changes inside the Frozen Span which is easily visible on the Gantt Planning Board.
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