Schedlyzer Lite 

Scheduling a variety of jobs with different due dates, priorities and process requirements is known to be tough in many job shops with high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) production or  project-based production. It requires rigorous, scientific logic which is not available in many scheduling software. It is theoretically possible to develop an application in Excel for HMLV scheduling using sound scheduling knowledge and strong skills in VBA language (Visual Basic for Applications). However, no Excel application can provide powerful graphic user interface and strong drag-and-drop functionality. No commercial Excel application is known to be versatile enough to schedule a variety of job shops without laborious manual effort. Finding a proven, commercial, user friendly scheduling tool fully in Excel is a real challenge for many HMLV job shops. 

Since it is easy to export data to an Excel file and create and edit data in Excel, we developed an executable software tool, Schedlyzer Lite that can take input data from Excel files, schedules production satisfying all relevant constraints and presents schedule output in the most elegant form. Schedlyzer Lite enables the users to take full advantage of Excel power (for data preparation), rigorous scheduling logic and powerful and elegant graphic features. The main benefit is that while exploiting the full scheduling power of Schedlyzer Lite, the user has a lot of freedom to structure the Excel file that serves as an input file to the software.  

 

Schedlyzer Lite is a simple, powerful and low-cost tool for scheduling both HMLV production and project-based production subject to resource capacities. Based on finite capacity scheduling logic, it automatically prevents resource overloading in the production schedule. See our approach to scheduling. The advantages of Schedlyzer Lite include improvements in on-time delivery, throughput, effective resource utilization, WIP and job lead times. Its functionality includes Its functionality includes: