North American manufacturers will be required to reduce the labor required to manage operations and have the most advanced software management systems. Software and hardware will need to fully linked from machines to directly the sales orders or demand requirements that are being fulfilled.

Real Time PLC Feeds
NUJIT MES connects your machines directly to your network so all production data and machine variables can be pulled from each company's machine PLC. Our real-time data management system allows for immediate access to screens displaying cycling machines or displaying non-cycling machines. Using Immediate feedback about scrap, machine cycle time, downtime, and current machine cycles, product managers can respond to issues in a much more proactive manner. PLCs can also be used to print production labels. Additionally, complete audits of starting and ending cycles is kept so that the system can track inventory versus machine cycles count issues.

Real Time Scheduling
Is your business using MRP and/or Excel to run your business? Ask around and I bet you find a couple. The wrong parts produced at the wrong time. Cancelled orders somehow make it to production without being cancelled. Raw material orders are not cancelled despite customers canceling their purchase order. Do your schedulers really know what the absolute next most important order is? Do you measure available slack time so that you can take and deliver short term orders without causing other orders to miss their delivery dates. Keep reading so that you understand why.

Most ERP systems come with the standard MRP (Material Requirements Planning) system and APS (Advanced Planning System) or Finite Scheduling. These processes are based on old technology that performs operations in batch, a response to slow CPU processors. Technology and system capabilities changed but ERP companies were typically locked into building solutions that served everyone and often failed to provide the suppliers with the solutions they were looking for. So what’s wrong with MRP and what’s wrong with APS or Finite Scheduling? The first problem starts with MRP when it calculates a quantity. The variables are all static. The second problem is that MRP distorts the next most important job. Often schedulers are running jobs due next week because they cannot distinguish what is real demand due this week. The end result is even if Finite Scheduling (or APS) worked well, it doesn’t have a chance because the quantity calculations and required dates are not optimal. Without that connection the problems identified in the first paragraph are magnified.

Many suppliers understand the problem with MRP so they use a manual or visual system, most of the time using a spreadsheet solution involving Microsoft Excel or Access. Wait no longer, as our automated scheduling system continually re-optimizes itself. No longer do you have to wait for an answer to your problems.