Print Production Scheduling

The Production Scheduling module provides you with information on the utilisation of plant equipment thus replacing the traditional planning board.

Production scheduling
With the Scheduling module the production team can create plans to optimise the use of your resources and maximise capacity. It puts you in control.

A real time model that allows the planner to analyse and compare actual production activity to planned activity.

• Designed to replace the traditional planning board, Production Scheduling provides you with the information on the utilisation of plant and equipment, thereby achieving the optimum employment of your resources.
  
  
• Drag and drop technology for ease of use.
  
  
• Plan jobs by resource, customer, sections, inks used etc.
  
  
• Equivalent resources are automatically suggested to maximum use of available resources.
  
  
• Colour coded operation status for easier visibility.
  
  
• User definable operation delay (lag) and overlap feature.
  
  
• The ability to lock whole jobs, sections or individual operations puts the production planner in control and enables you to guarantee production time.
  
  
• What if and what happened analysis capability. As Tharstern Production scheduling is updated in real time this allows the planner to analyse and compare actual production activity to planned.
  
  
• Specify overtime capacity by Resource, Job, Section or Operation.
  
  
• Pre plan maintenance periods and the ability to globally flag specific periods as non-working time, e.g. New Year.
  
  
• Real-time on screen work-to-lists are provided for Remote Data Capture operators.
  
  
• Automatically flags late jobs and a capacity analysis facility identify bottlenecks.
  
  
• Provisional job planner allows production capacity to be reserved for potential jobs.
  
  
• Scheduling integrates seamlessly with Purchase Order Processing and plans Outwork into the schedule, operations that are dependent on external resources are clearly identified to the operator.
  
  
• As with Outwork, any proofs required for the job are scheduled and updated automatically within scheduling as they are returned.