Optimize Your Production Schedule
What impacts your schedule?
Material Availability
Ensure you have the right materials, at the right time and in the right quantities.
Project changes (from the customer)
Even minor adjustments can quickly affect the schedule if not tracked and managed properly.
Production Delays
⇒ Prioritize High-Value Projects
⇒ Allocate Time for Each Step
⇒ Stay on Track
The importance of communication
The Challenge
⇒ Maintaining the schedule to reflect reality. Internally between departments and externally with customers, general contracters and suppliers.
⇒ Keeping everything running smoothly without relying on a single person who knows every project and can adjust everything intuitively.
Impacts of poor communication
Overstocking
Producing too early
Late material arrivals
Delayed deliveries
Higher costs
The Main Concepts of Scheduling
Throughput
The rate at which a system generates profit. It connects system cost to the value created, making it directly tied to the production schedule.
Bottleneck
The bottleneck is the slowest point in the system. The whole system can only move as fast as this constraint. It sets the maximum throughput of the system.
Capacity
Ensure that what goes into it truly creates value. Capacity represents what you can put in the system or the bottleneck.
Critical Paths
Projects follow different paths, and each workflow has its own steps, timing, and resource needs. The critical path for each, ensuring projects move smoothly and get completed properly.
Calculating the Cost of the System
The Consequences of Poor Scheduling
⇒ Empty bottlenecks cost the entire system.
⇒ Not prioritizing the right projects reduces profitability and throughput.
How to improve
⇒ Identify the factors that impact the schedule.
⇒ Minimize them wherever possible to keep the system running efficiently.
