ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software is widely used in manufacturing to increase efficiency by planning better. Though ERP software can help decrease inefficiencies, the software often doesn’t take into account the reality of operations. It disregards whether the facility actually executes the planned schedule, and assumes infinite capacity without considering whether all resources are available as planned. Without taking into consideration human errors such as sickness, broken tools, machine failure, late deliveries and inconsistent orders from the same customer, using an ERP software can pose to be quite a challenge. nMetric’s Smart Job Scheduling takes into account this uncertainty that most ERP software fails to do. The scheduling software creates multiple schedules with the assumption that change will arise and equips individual production processes to cope with that change, interacting with other processes in an effective way. The software “self-corrects to deal with the changes of the operating environment with no need for manual intervention or specially-written situational algorithms.” “nMetric does not compete with ERP or legacy planning system, it complements them.” “It closes the gap between what is planned, what has actually happened, and what is or is not happening right now and in the future.”

“A Top 50 Automotive Supplier faced with high defects and customer complaints needed a new approach to its paper-based layered process audit (LPA) program. The solution: Ease Inc’s Beacon – an automated LPA web-based application to conduct mobile audits, quickly address non-conformances with corrective actions and provide dashboard metrics for a high volume of internal process audits.” For more information, click here.

“nMetric’s Smarter Scheduling software, lets you improve on-time delivery, minimize buffers and inventory, increase throughput and dramatically decrease lead times. All while increasing flexibility and responsiveness, so you can move successfully to a demand-driven, make-to-order business model. nMetric is a real-time, real-world manufacturing scheduling software system for discrete, complex or “chaotic” environments. nMetric software creates a virtual replica of your production environment. It breaks down customer orders into their routing components and creates a Smart Job® for each step, which identifies the attributes of the resources it needs and routes itself to its most efficient completion using a probabilistic, backward-chaining process. The system framework keeps track of each resource’s capability attributes and the compatibilities of those resources, sets the boundaries of resource availability and maintains the rules for Smart Job priority negotiations.” To learn more about nMetric’s Smarter Scheduling software, click here.

nMetric® Scheduling Software for Manufacturing delivers beneficial results by transformation any factory into a highly efficient, flexible, reliable operation. The software allows you to respond quickly to customers, resulting in speedy deliveries and the avoidance of late penalties. The software provides unprecedented real-time visibility into operations, their status and expected completion dates. “Because the software is web-based, it allows your entire organization to gain situational awareness of the issues affecting operational performance and on-time customer satisfaction. Even more importantly, nMetric also gives your operations personnel the opportunity to be aware of and act on contentions and constraints for all resources before they become problems. You’ll be able to adopt a true make-to-order, Just-in-Time model, while dramatically reducing the need for costly buffers and inventory, increasing throughput, significantly decreasing lead times and greatly improving profitability. All while knowing the on-time status of every order, all the time. There is nothing else like it.” To learn more about nMetric’s Scheduling Software, click here.