Schedule Intelligence

Schedule Intelligence within MachineMetrics enhances production efficiency by providing real-time AI-driven insights into your Production Schedule. The Production Schedule tool empowers you to improve on-time delivery, optimize capacity utilization, and dynamically adjust to changes in your production operations. By integrating with your ERP system, you gain visibility and control over your production schedule, ensuring that operations are completed as planned.

Key Benefits

Schedule Intelligence offers several key benefits:

• Genuine On-Time Delivery: Optimize production timelines with real-time data and machine performance metrics to ensure reliable delivery schedules.
• Enhanced Efficiency: Automate scheduling adjustments to maintain optimal performance and reduce manual intervention.
• Proactive Scheduling: Predict and mitigate potential disruptions by dynamically adjusting the production schedule in real time.
• Operational Flexibility: Adapt quickly to changing priorities, operational statuses, and unexpected events with real-time adjustments.
• Instant Communication: Ensure all stakeholders are informed and can act promptly with real-time updates and alerts.

Getting Started

To start leveraging Schedule Intelligence, you must integrate your ERP system with MachineMetrics. This integration allows you to view and manage scheduling data within the platform. You can find more about integrating by visiting our System Integrations Section and selecting a v2 integration that fits your current ERP. If your ERP doesn't currently have a v2 integration available, please contact support@machinemetrics.com.

Introducing the Production Schedule

The Production Schedule feature within Schedule Intelligence displays which jobs are running on time and which are delayed. It allows you to reschedule operations as needed, ensuring your production timeline stays on track. The Production Schedule feature can be broken up into three main columns:

• Machines Column: Displays the current status of each machine along with its rolling 7-day capacity. This helps in understanding machine utilization and identifying available capacity.
• Active Column: Shows the currently running operations on a machine, providing insights into progress and estimated completion times.
• Up Next Column: Lists the operations scheduled to run on each machine. These can be rearranged using drag-and-drop functionality to accommodate changes in priorities or delays.

Core Concepts

Understanding the core concepts is essential to effectively managing your schedule within MachineMetrics:

• Production Order: A sequence of operations necessary to fulfill a specific part number.
• Production Order Operation: The individual step within a production order.
• Estimated Complete: The projected completion time for a production order operation.
• Required Complete: The latest date necessary for completing a production order operation.
• Not Ready/Ready: Indicates whether a production order operation is ready to start.
• At Risk/Overdue: Flags indicating potential or actual delays in completing operations.

How Completion Dates Are Estimated

MachineMetrics calculates estimated completion times by analyzing machine data, ERP data, and human inputs. The calculation considers various factors like current and historical cycle times, setup times, and interdependencies between operations and the machine's work queue to provide accurate real-time estimates.

To ensure these estimates are accurate, you should:

• Assign accurate shifts to your machines in Machine Schedules.
• Verify that all production order operations have cycle times and setup standards in your ERP.
• Confirm that all production orders have assigned due dates.

View Mode

The default view in the Production Schedule allows you to see the work currently running and scheduled on your machines. You can filter and search by machine, production order, or operation to get detailed insights into your production schedule.

Scheduling Mode

In Scheduling Mode, you can drag and drop operation cards to reschedule or assign work in a machine’s "Up Next" queue. This mode lets you preview the impact of these changes before saving, ensuring that adjustments are aligned with overall production goals.

Understanding the Scheduling Components

Machines Column

The machine column shows details for each machine, including the rolling 7 day capacity of work scheduled. This encompasses ongoing and all upcoming work.

Machine's Details

Displays the current machine status along with the duration for which the machine has been in that status.

Active Operation Column

The “Active Now” column shows what is currently running on the machine, whether it’s not running anything or experiencing an error.

Scheduled Operations Column

Cards shown in the “Up Next” column indicate production order operations that are assigned to that machine, displayed left to right in the order they are scheduled to run (with the orders scheduled to run next on the left). 

Flags and Warnings

Conclusion

Schedule Intelligence is a powerful tool for managing and optimizing your production schedule. By providing real-time insights and flexible scheduling options, it helps ensure that your operations stay on track and meet delivery deadlines.