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benefits

 

 . On-Time Delivery Improvement

 . Increased Throughput

 . Higher Resource Utilization

 . Reduced Queuing Time

 . Reduced Inventory

 . Efficient Bottleneck Management

 . Extensive What-if Analysis

 

 

 
If the gain from Schedlyzer during 30-day free trial period is not at least as much as the total cost of ownership of the tool, you must ignore the tool. We offer a free trial version only after configuring the tool for your production system (without any cost for you).
 

 
We offer best-of-breed solutions to meet the true scheduling challenges in high-mix, low-volume production and project-based production.
 

Schedlyzer - A Powerful Job Shop Scheduling Tool
 
Many software products described as production scheduling tools or shop floor scheduling tools for job shops are not very satisfactory in performance. These tools seem to be based on weak MRP scheduling logic and drag-and-drop operations (on Gantt chart). A scheduling tool must be an intelligent decision support system not an information system involving spreadsheets and excellent graphic features. The creation of a decent, viable scheduling tool requires versatile production models, powerful scheduling logic and strong skills in the development of scientific software. 
 
One of the primary goals of Optisol is to present a simple, powerful, reliable and user friendly scheduling tool to small and mid-sized production systems. When the required data is available to the tool, the user needs only 3 mouse clicks (for selecting and submitting data file, committing selected data and scheduling) to generate and see a practical schedule unless the user wants to perform what-if analysis. Optisol's Schedlyzer is claimed to be the fastest and most powerful scheduling tool for custom manufacturing, project-based production and high-mix, low-volume production. ETO / MTO units belong to this class of industries. The tool is based on rigorous, scientific, finite capacity scheduling logic. The core scheduling logic of the tool is developed by a researcher who has 30 years of research and consulting experience in scheduling and optimization. 
 
The versatile underlying paradigm of Schedlyzer is specifically developed to exploit information technology, shop floor data collection systems and the currently available power and memory of PCs. The paradigm covers a wide spectrum of job shop production systems. For example, the scheduling model allows (1) generic precedence relations among jobs and among operations of any job, (2) splitting a job into transfer batches, (3) requirement of more than one type of resources for an operation, (4) generic work centers which are physical or conceptual, (5) generic mapping among work centers, skills and machines, and (6) multi-functional machines / equipment and multi-skilled workers. One of the important tests for any operational level scheduling tool is to see how the tool can handle resource calendars and calendar exceptions. Schedlyzer permits very generic resource calendars and calendar exceptions. This is one of its true strengths. Another important strength of the tool is the fast and extensive what-if analysis of schedules. The tool also facilitates dynamic capacity planning. What-if analysis and capacity planning are extremely important to the above-mentioned class of industries. 
 
Although the tool is based on advanced, rigorous scheduling logic, it is simple and user friendly providing powerful graphic features and drag-and-drop options. It does not require users to have rigorous training. Unlike numerous scheduling tools, Schedlyzer does not require users to perform laborious and time-consuming drag-and-drop operations on Gantt chart to yield a decent production schedule. Dependence on drag-and-drop operations is a clear sign of poor scheduling logic of the tool. Schedlyzer displays job schedules in one chart and resource schedules in another chart with elegant navigational features. It graphically shows resource utilization levels and bottlenecks over time. Resource schedules can be printed with sufficient details for any given time interval of the planning period. Resource schedules and job schedules can also be saved in many forms. Schedlyzer helps in: 
 
  • Fixing right due dates for new orders based on the process requirements and priority of the order, resource capacities and the planned workload
  • Finding right times for loading jobs such that lead times are low and resource utilization is high
  • Predicting workflow, job completion times, and resource utilization over time
  • Identifying the moving bottlenecks in advance and making appropriate proactive decisions
  • Extensive what-if analysis of schedules and efficient dynamic capacity planning 
  • Instantaneous rescheduling of workload.
 
The primary benefits of Schedlyzer are:
  • Improved throughput
  • Shorter lead times and higher on-time delivery
  • Less inventory and higher resource utilization
  • Quick, optimum response to changes in production
  • Prediction of workflow and reduction of firefighting
  • Better understanding of the dynamic nature of production system.
 
Schedlyzer can be used as a standalone scheduling software or it can be integrated with any popular ERP package. The tool serves as a powerful and intelligent electronic assistant to production schedulers. The tool can help any scheduler who is seriously interested to get a decent and meaningful production schedule within seconds even for tens of thousands of operations and hundreds of resources. 
 
Interested companies can freely use the tool for at least 30 days on a trial basis after ascertaining its suitability.
 
 
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