Shuttleworth Business Systems has brought out a MIS that automates the production planning processes.
Historically, planning systems rely heavily on the ‘planner’ to interact with the system to put together an achievable work schedule. Shuttleworth has automated the process so that as jobs are created, amended or deleted, they are automatically prioritised according to sophisticated rules. ‘Due date’ is often used to prioritise the sequence of jobs, but this does not take account of capacity and the amount of process time on the job. The new rules can do this which ensures the best possible fit for the current workload.
The whole planning process can be completely automated by setting a timer at intervals determined by the planner. As the planning system automatically updates, jobs are updated and prioritised using the new rules. Real time bookings from the data capture system are continually fed into the schedule and the whole MIS is updated with progress against plan.