AS:9.3 SHOP FLOOR CONTROL
No factory is perfect, and a schedule can become invalid at any time because of,
AS:9.3.1 Shop Floor Scheduling - Priority Scheduling
Instead of scheduling before production (MRP and Capacity planning), a manufacturer may opt to do scheduling on the fly.
Some of these methods include,
- Earliest operation due date - soonest date. This gives time until due, but ignores processing time.
AS:9.3.2 Shop Floor Monitoring
It is important to know what is happening on the factory floor.
To do this we must pay attention to obvious problems like machine operation, and hidden problems such as quality, and production quantities.