Production Floor Optimization For Metal Fabricators: Basic PrinciplesMoshe BenBassat
ABSTRACT Facing a global economic crisis, Metal Fabricators must cope today with an ever changing production environment, subject to the volatility of the current economic conditions and increased pressures for higher quality, faster turnaround time and reduced pricing. While in many cases production volume is down, the volatility of sales is going up with orders made at short notice, and then reduced, expanded or cancelled altogether. In addition, the growing trend of high-mix / low-volume orders with ever-shortening delivery times, is adding further complexity to the already challenging production floor environment.
Under these circumstances, managers find themselves spending a great amount of time planning and re-planning their production schedule only to make more changes facing everyday interruptions like machine breakdown, material shortage and others. Meeting this challenge takes great expertise, experience and a strong handle on current status. Conversely, failing to meet it costs time, money and customer dissatisfaction in an era where customers are valuable than ever and every dollar counts.
In many cases, modern software products for production floor optimization alleviate a significant part of these complexities, helping plant management achieve better customer service, higher material utilization, lower level of inventories, reduced costs and overall higher productivity.
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