Scheduling board: jobs across machines and days
Every machine is a row and every day a column, with each job as a bar. Drag a job to move it in time or to an allowed machine. See each day's load against the machine's hours, and replan a machine in one click.
PLANSScale only
The problem it solves
- The plan lives in a spreadsheet that is out of date by the first breakdown.
- Some machines sit idle while others are booked twice over, and nobody sees it until jobs are late.
- Moving one job means calling three people to find out what else it pushes.
- Jobs that were never given a start date are forgotten until the customer chases.
How it works
- Your planner opens Manufacturing > Planning > Scheduling Board. Rows are the machines of the Entity, columns the next 7 days or 2 weeks. Each job is a bar from its planned start to finish.
- Each day shows the machine's minutes booked against the minutes it works. Overloaded days, late jobs (finishing after the order's deadline) and overlapping jobs show in red.
- Drag a bar along its row to move it; it snaps to 15 minutes. Drag it to another row to move it to an alternative machine of that step. A machine that is not an alternative is refused.
- Jobs not planned yet are listed below the board. Plan puts one in its machine's first free slot from now.
- Replan lays a machine's jobs that have not started one after another from the first day shown. By Changeover does the same, ordered for the least changeover time from your setup matrix.
Everything it does
The board
- Machines (work centres) of the current Entity as rows, in their order
- Week or 2 Weeks; arrows to move back and forward; Today
- Plant filter: Every plant to start with, or one plant
- Each bar shows the order and step, the item and its state; hover for the times
- Late bars (finishing after the order's deadline) and overlapping bars in red
- Each day: minutes booked against the machine's working minutes from its calendar and capacity. Overloaded days in red. A machine with no calendar counts 24 hours
Moving jobs
- Drag in time, snapping to 15 minutes; the finish follows from the job's expected minutes
- Drag to another machine: only the step's machine or its alternatives are allowed
- Done and cancelled jobs cannot be moved
- Plan: a job with no date goes into its machine's first free slot from now (up to 100 unplanned jobs listed)
Replanning a machine
- Replan: the machine's jobs not started are laid one after another, from the first day shown or now if that is later
- Jobs keep their order: by planned start, then the order's deadline
- Each job goes into the machine's next free slot on its working hours
- By Changeover: the same, with the jobs reordered by the setup matrix
- A message says how many jobs were laid out
Who uses it
PlannerMoves, plans and replans jobs on the board.
Production ManagerLooks at the load per machine and the late jobs, and moves jobs as a planner.
SupervisorWorks the jobs in the order the board sets, at the shop floor terminal.
Where you use it
- Web: Manufacturing > Planning > Scheduling Board (planners and above)
- Not in the SmartMy Manufacturing app (built and in testing, not in the app stores yet): this screen is on the web
- Not on the shop floor terminal: operators see their own jobs, not the board
What you control
Settings
- View: Week to start with, or 2 Weeks
- Plant: Every plant to start with
- Per machine: its working hours (calendar), capacity and alternative machines, in Configuration > Work Centers
- Changeover minutes: the setup matrix
Questions
Does the board respect the machine's working hours?
Yes. Plan, Replan and By Changeover put jobs into the machine's free slots on its working calendar. A dragged job takes its expected minutes from where you drop it.Can I move a job to another machine?
Yes, to the step's own machine or one of its alternatives. Set alternatives on the work centre. Any other machine is refused.Does it schedule every machine at once?
No. Replan and By Changeover work one machine at a time. You decide which machine to replan and from when.Who can open the board?
Planners, Production Managers and Manufacturing Administrators. Supervisors and operators cannot.Which plan has the scheduling board?
Scale.Related features
LINES AND SCHEDULINGSetup matrix: jobs ordered for short changeoversGroup items into setup families, such as a colour, a size or a die. Type the minutes it takes to change over from one family to another. By Changeover on the scheduling board then orders a machine's jobs to spend the least time changing over.LINES AND SCHEDULINGMaster schedule and rough-cut capacityBuild a week-by-week plan of what to make for each item and plant from your forecasts, customer orders and stock. Change the plan where you know better, firm the sure weeks into production orders, and check the load on each machine before you commit.PLANNING, QUALITY AND COSTMRP run and the planner's workbenchOne run works out what to make and what to buy for a plant, level by level through your bills of materials. It works from customer orders, open production orders, stock and safety stock. The planner checks each proposal on one workbench and orders it.PRODUCTION AND JOB WORKBills of materials, production orders and work ordersKeep each item's bill of materials with its components and the steps on your machines. A production order reserves the material, lays out the work orders step by step and puts the finished goods into stock at cost.SHOP FLOORThe shop floor terminal: a tablet at each machineA tablet at each machine or station shows its jobs in big tiles. Operators sign in with a PIN or badge, and start and pause jobs. They count good and rejected pieces with a reason, and stop the machine with a reason. Every count goes straight into the order.LINES AND SCHEDULINGOEE per machine and day, and the machine board on a TVOEE is worked out every hour for each machine and day from its running time and the pieces counted at the terminal. It is split into availability, performance and quality. A machine board on a TV shows every machine as working, stopped or idle.
See your shop floor on it.
Tell us what you make, how many machines and people you run, and how production is recorded today. We will set up a line with you and run a job on the terminal.