Walchand Infotech
A Division of Walchandnagar Industries Ltd
Products and Services for SME
ExSched - Finite Capacity Scheduler
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SMART - mini ERP solution
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ExSched
ExSched (Expert Scheduler) is a software solution for manufacturing industries. The scheduling algorithm uses the technique of discrete event simulation. The scheduling rules could be e.g. shortest processing time (for highest throughput time), remaining operations rule (for reduction in WIP) etc. Schedules are arrived at after considering practical constraints such as availability of facilities, holidays & weekly offs, facility downtimes, third party operations etc.ExSched outputs
- Gantt charts for schedules
- Load charts for facilities
- Job routings.- Summary reports
- Online interaction for making finer refinements to the schedule
Salient Features of ExSched
- ODBC interface to different databases
- User friendly screen and help facility
- Online multicolor visual graphical interface
- Gantt Charts for schedules
- Gantt Charts at resource and project level
- 'What-If' facility wherein planners can try out various combinations of job mix, customer due dates, priorities, capacities, etc and select the most appropriate plan for publishing it for production.
Benefits ExSched
- Finite capacity scheduling while satisfying (and/optimizing) practical constraints.
- Enables to predict delivery commitments to customers.
- Identification of bottleneck facilities or Identification of idle facilities/surplus capacities.
- Objective input for decision making on justification of acquiring new facilities.
- Better capacity utilization due to elimination of ad-hoc scheduling.
- Comprehensive & visually appealing projection engagements over the planning horizon.
- Reliable input for making delivery commitments to customers.
- Early warning on possible slippages.