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Production Overview
TeoWin's Production Manager enables manufacturers to plan, control and
simulate their entire production process including the management of internal
and external orders, inventory, shipping labels and shipping routes.
Managing and scheduling production can be difficult particular for joinery
business who operate in a "Made to Order" and "Engineering to Order"
environment.
TeoWin Production Manager is more than a simple scheduler and unlike many
scheduling systems it bases projections on resources, the combination of
machines and staff, across the entire work load of a business. The
system is configured specifically to the manufacturers requirements and enables
a business to introduce and mange multiple production workflow situation based
on specific product types. For example, a business who manufacturers
kitchens and wardrobes can route the production of items that fall into to one
of these categories through different routes.
TeoWin's Production Manage is developed and supported by TeoWin.
Therefore it is not a product that has been bundled with another software
application claim superior integration capabilities. Everything in the
Production Manager in Teowin is Teowin and the data all resides in a common
Microsoft SQL Server database.
Within the Production Manager multiple jobs can be managed a routed based on
any combination of rules to achieve production "smoothing". Before a job
is entered in to the system it can be simulated to review potential bottleneck.
When scheduling is undertaken the system will instantly review the production
request, compare this to resources and inventory and report any issues or
shortages to enable inventory and resource planning.
Each production process is made of a collection of work centres. Work
centres are defined with their dependencies and connections to other work centre
- it is a real production line. The linking of work centres is based on either a
1 to many or many to one relationship. This means a work centre can generate
half-finished products for different later work centres, or several work centres
can generate half-finished products for a single later work centre.
Production Managers also defines two types of activities, activities of
manufacturing and activities of outsourcing. Each of these activities can
changed between habitual and sporadic, so we are not locked into any single
method of acquiring resources.
Once a manufacturing order has been generated it is automatically passed into
the production queue. The next step is the purchasing of the materials
required for the job(s). From this screen it is possible to calculate
requirements, generate supplier orders, monitor material inspection, control the
stock, control optimization and manage outsourcing activities. Internal
notification can be setup with TeoWin's email client to notify users of alters,
warnings or the completion of activities, like the release of inventory from the
inspection warehouse.
The “Planning Environment” enables the production scheduler to view the Gantt
chart based on resources or materials. In addition to looking at the
availability of material, the planning process also considers the current
capacity on the shop floor. For example, if we enter 100 jobs into the
system and capacity for this did not exist, the system would immediately notify
you of this factor. The production planner then could decide the next
step. For example he could review resources based on skills and schedule
more capacity via overtime.
Articles, like doors etc, can be setup with default warehouse locations like
main warehouse, inspection warehouse etc. so that when inventory arrives it is
automatically assigned to a specific warehouse. For example if we receive
doors from a supplier we will need to check them for defects before we introduce
then to the main warehouse where they can be assigned to a job. If the
item does not pass the inspection process, the program automatically generates a
"Devolution Order" and a new supplier order for this item.
TeoWin has its own email client, TeoWin Messenger. This can be used to
distribute internal information about orders, alerts, warnings etc.
As the various jobs move around the various work centres, staff can access
their tasks via touch screens which can be integrated into many of the modern
Point-2-Point and Beam Saws machines. The user can access their job list either
via TeoWin's Presence Control system or via a user name and password. Once
the job has been commenced the time monitor automatically commences to record
the event. When the task is complete the time is recorded for the and this
can be used by the business to perform reviews on theoretical costs Vs actual
costs, performance bench marking analysis etc.
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