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Production Scheduling Workbench (PSW)
Production Scheduling Workbench (PSW)
Once you generate a master production schedule over a daily, weekly, or monthly horizon, you may need to create a production schedule for a shorter, two-to-five day period for the shop floor to drive shop floor execution. The production scheduling goal is to optimize shop floor efficiency by scheduling and sequencing production orders that have like attributes together, reducing machine setups and maximizing labor utilization.
Some companies run a single production order over several days, while others run multiple production orders within a single day. Further, some companies define a production sequence/priority by shift to monitor shift performance or to ensure that products are available for a specific shipment time. The PSW lets you schedule discrete and repetitive items on production lines. You can schedule, sequencing items within a day and shift.