Chris Koyianis
Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Kaizen, 5s or 6s, Toyota Production System, Six Sigma . . .
These are methodologies for improving manufacturing processes. Have you thought about applying the same methodologies used for your manufacturing processes to your production planning and scheduling processes?
Planning and scheduling processes must work very closely with operations to achieve synergy and equilibrium. Your operations team should be able to trust the production schedule was developed with operational excellence in mind and your planners and schedulers should have confidence that operations will follow the schedule. When both operations and planning work together seamlessly waste is minimized and improvements in your processes are achieved:
- Customers receive orders on time
- Costs go down
- Employee engagement increases
- Efficiencies and yields improve
- Company profits go up
These improvements are direct results of achieving synergy between planning, scheduling and operations.
These results are not just the byproduct of good execution—they stem from integrating manufacturing planning tools that enable planners to make smart, data-driven decisions. PlanetTogether’s real-time production planning engine allows for dynamic adjustments and intelligent sequencing that reduce waste and optimize manufacturing operations.
PlanetTogether also supports seamless ERP scheduling integration, enhancing the value of your existing systems and ensuring alignment with your factory scheduling software and MES platforms such as OpCenter.
Contact Scheduling Solutions to learn more about PlanetTogether. We can show you how the software works and help you decide if PlanetTogether will provide you with the extra boost you need to get closer to operational excellence and achieve your goals.
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