Seamlessly integrated with Cim50 and Cim200, Graphical Scheduler lets you visualise your production schedule and efficiently manage your shop floor workload. Developed by Cim professionals, this robust software enhances your Cim solution by providing the essential tools to elevate your manufacturing operations.
What is Graphical Scheduler?
The Graphical Scheduler is an intuitive tool that presents your manufacturing schedule visually, showcasing processes along a timeline to help simplify your production planning and management. The software features a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface with colour-coded elements. By integrating with Cim50 and Cim200, it extracts and manipulates production plans, offering a ‘What if’ capability.
This latest tool allows you to improve your efficiency by letting you quickly view and supervise shop floor activities and take command of production scheduling. Graphical Scheduler also helps you to anticipate and address upcoming resource conflicts and overloads, enabling you to optimise the production plan to fulfil customer demands.
How can Graphical Scheduler benefit your business?
Conflict Management
Identifying conflicts can be challenging, and if detected too late, they can lead to various issues. Graphical Scheduler offers real-time resolution of machine and labour resource conflicts, ensuring seamless manufacturing processes throughout your organisation. The software highlights conflicts for your review, allowing you to drag and drop affected operations to alternative times and resources, with instant feedback on potential additional conflicts or overdue works orders. A ‘What if’ feature also allows production planners to undo changes if they prove ineffective.
Resource Utilisation
Get insights into labour and machine resource overloads and factory load imbalances by analysing colour-coded resource utilisation displayed as percentages. The Graphical Scheduler allows you to proactively address these overloads and imbalances within the software, preventing them from affecting production and ensuring factory efficiency. Resource setup and availability are managed within your Cim solution, allowing you to customise the resource utilisation view according to your specific production schedules and operations.
Works Order Planning
This module offers a comprehensive view of your business’s work orders and operations. It promptly addresses scheduling problems by detecting late and at-risk orders and conflicting operations based on planned start dates, setup times, runtimes, delays, and available capacity. This module is crucial in helping you meet planning requirements and streamline your operational processes.
Dependency Management
The Cim Scheduler employs operation dependencies to prevent operations from being scheduled in the wrong sequence, ensuring production remains aligned. It connects processes within the same work order, using arrows to indicate their order.
Dynamic Colour Coding
Like the CIM Manufacturing solutions, colour-coding is utilised within the Graphical Scheduler views to emphasise late work orders, work orders at risk, resource conflicts, and resource overloads. This approach enables the early identification and resolution of issues by the scheduler before work commences.
Fully Integrated Solution
In Cim50, the Scheduler will be an additional module within the Cim50 Manufacturing range. In Cim200, the Scheduler is part of the standard offering for customers starting from v2024 onwards but can also be integrated into existing Cim200 solutions.
If you are interested in finding out more about Graphical Scheduler then contact our experts today on 0115 840 5075 or email enquiries@solutionsforaccounting.co.uk.
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