Finite capacity Loading - Investigation Processing

  Supporting your analysis of Resource Loading

There are always capacity bottlenecks. Even if you have 'spare capacity' in your plant you find that management will cut working hours so there will still be capacity bottlenecks in the short term.

You can find out which resources are the bottlenecks in your factory using our 'solver'.

 Free!  (conditions apply)

You can email us an extract from your spreadsheet and we will email it back.
We use the 'engine' from our finite capacity scheduling software.
This will
-Find the 'bottleneck' resources
-Forward load the bottleneck resources
-Backward load the other resources

Try it!

Here is an example:
You send us

Batch	Resource	Hours	... optional columns -more	.	.	.
AAA-B	Cut	2	.	.	.	.
AAA-B	Form	4	.	.	.	.
AAA-B	Pack	1	.	.	.	.
BJ400	Cut	0.5	.	.	.	.
BJ400	Form	6	.	.	.	.
BJ400	Pack	1	.	.	.	.
103-2	Cut	2	.	.	.	.
103-2	Form	4	.	.	.	.
103-2	Pack	1	.	.	.	.

We "Flip" the data and send back a nicely coloured bar chart...

Resource	Utilsn	Shift 1 0:00	Shift 1 1:00	Shift 1 2:00	Shift 1 3:00	Shift 1 4:00	Shift 1 5:00	Shift 1 6:00
Cut	25	AAA-B	AAA-B	idle	idle	idle	BJ400	idle
Form	82(B'neck)	idle	idle	AAA-B	AAA-B	AAA-B	AAA-B	BJ400
Pack	18	idle	idle	idle	idle	idle	idle	AAA-B
.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

or you get the schedule in a convenient form for preparing individual shedules for each resource...

Resource >	Cut	Form	Pack	.	.	.
Utilsn >	25	82(B'neck)	18	.	.	.
Shift 1 0:00	AAA-B	idle	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 1:00	AAA-B	idle	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 2:00	idle	AAA-B	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 3:00	idle	AAA-B	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 4:00	idle	AAA-B	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 5:00	BJ400	AAA-B	idle	.	.	.
Shift 1 6:00	idle	BJ400	AAA-B	.	.	..

Should BJ400 be run before AAA-B?
Forming is a bottleneck, but it still has idle time!

for more information:--

input data detail or... download an empty spreadsheet List.xls

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info@assuredsystems.com.au

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