Shop Floor Control

This module helps production management schedule, release, and track production orders for MRP manufactured items. It also helps isolate scrapped and reworked materials and monitor and evaluate direct and indirect labor performance. The Process Definition module defines, organizes, and maintains the standard operations needed to complete manufacturing orders for each item. These operations can then be modified through Shop Floor Control on an order-by-order exception basis. This enables production personnel to make unique individual production runs.

Just-in-Time

This module allows manufacturers to change production quantities and adjust JIT production rates. It supports on-line and load simulation for "what-if" analysis and mixed-model scheduling for manufacturing cells. Once the optimal production schedule has been developed, it can be firmed through to the date of a firm time fence. The other planning modules will not automatically reschedule production within the firm time fence; planner intervention is required. The firm time fence can be set globally, or at the item level.

Flexible inventory movement features let manufacturers tailor point-of-use receipts and inventory relief to their environments. For example, component inventory may be back flushed through multiple levels of the bill of material. Operation-level inventory relief is supported for manufacturers with long lead times.

CONBON (Card Order Notice, Bring Out Notice)

The CONBON module is MAC-PAC XE’s software support for the Kanban production technique. This technique involves the pull execution of the production plan. CONBON is a production execution method that uses production and movement cards to replenish items as they are consumed in the production process.

Using item and cell parameters, the system suggests the number of CONBON cards needed to support smooth production. In this way, the module helps you control production surplus and safety stock, while reducing lead times and inventory balances. The cards can be printed on-line or off-line in either a worker-readable or bar-coded format. CONBON is used for JIT-planned items only, taking the place of the Shop Floor Control module.

See also MAC-PAC XE Priority Manager.

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