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The most fundamental of production scheduling tasks is the publishing of the results of PROSPAC's scheduling "engine" so that they can be used directly on the shop floor.

It is imperative that production control be able to manage the shop floor with these schedules, otherwise PROSPAC will not effectively support other production management functions.

Many critical shop scheduling prerequisites bear on the successful use of such computer-generated schedules.  Not the least of these is frequency.  The title for this section uses the word Daily.  The idea is not so much that it be daily, but suggests some periodic schedule regeneration that best suits that shop's characteristics.

The frequency with which schedules are regenerated and published to the shop floor varies from shop to shop.  Each shop has a "tempo" that is largely related to the speed with which it can turn around customer orders, which can vary from as little as 4 hours to 4 months or more.

  Schedule Documents

There are just three primary schedule documents that are needed to insure that work is performed as scheduled.  They can be in either printed or electronic form and include

bulleta Machine Load List for each machine.  This is a chronological list of operations from the many shop work orders requiring this machine showing, in addition to other information, the date and time when each operation is scheduled to start and complete.  This list is made available to each machine operator or lead, foreman, expeditor as well as most anyone in the production control department.  This is the principal document for shop floor operations. 
bulleta Shop Work Order Status Report.  This presents, among many other things, the current status and location of each shop work order, its due date and when it is scheduled to complete.  This summary document is used by expeditors, the production control department, customer support, and often salesmen.
bulletShop Work Order Schedules.  These present the operation schedules in the same sequence as the routing sequence for the respective shop work order.  These documents are used by expeditors and production planners for those shop work orders that have fallen behind schedule or require special attention to insure that they complete on time.  They are also used by customer support and sales to report to the customer the status of his orders.

 

 

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