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Vol 28 - No 06 - July/August 2002 Capacity Planning: 3 Key Questions to Answer This article aims to explain how a company that was not using the full capabilities of its own computer system set about developing the system to answer the 3 key questions that all shop floor team leaders and operators need answers to: 1 What workload is planned to go through this machine (or section) during the next few days/weeks? 2 What job should I do next? 3 Is the job ahead, on, or behind schedule? I became Master Production Scheduler at Dunlop Equipment in Coventry (a manufacturer of bleed control systems mainly used in the aerospace industry) in September 2001. To eliminate a backlog of overdue customer orders and to help improve our business systems we had been using an external consultant for several months. A capacity vs output monitor had been introduced, which did succeed in identifying the worst bottlenecks, but was based on a Rough Cut Capacity Planning spreadsheet which only approximated requirements and was known not to be accurate.At any one time there were approximately 150 works rders in manufacture, with an average of 10-15 operations needed on each.These were being manually prioritised by the manufacturing team leader.The EFACS computer system was not trusted for capacity planning and control as previous experiments with work-to lists had not been successful. Related Topics:
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