Regarding Efficiency Factor - Shop Resource Maintenance, Via Menu Option: Edit, Shop Groups...
Please can someone tell me where on the Infor Visual Manufacturing User's Guide Help File 'Efficiency Factor' is explained?
[Help file Publication Information. Release: Infor VISUAL 9.0.5 Publication date: August 16, 2018]
Or ideally please, could someone copy the relevant text in a reply here?
We have searched this PDF for 'Efficiency Factor' but got 'No Results'.
We were also wondering does this 'Efficiency Factor' effected the 'Resource/Employee Efficiency/Utilisation' Report?
We called a Report for December 18, summed by Resource for all our Injection Moulding Machines. We were considering using the values obtained to update our 'Efficiency Factor' Estimates, with more accurate values based on December 18's actuals.
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We even came up with the idea of data-basing our individual Product's efficiencies, to obtain a (perhaps weighted) average per Product we manufacture.
This would perhaps then even allow us to fairly accurately project future Machine Efficiencies based upon the mix of Individual Products being manufactured.
Our overall objective is to move towards an unfrozen schedule. Certain Products we mould, with inherent design flaws*, critically impact our machine efficiencies, due to the variability in tool function. Infor Visual does not appear to have an INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT EFFICIENCY FACTOR Field to over-ride the Resource Efficiency Factor. I presume therefore one is supposed to dial down the run rates instead, and always presume worst case scenario.
*Mostly used in multipart assemblies, hence our customers cannot simply redesign the flaws out.
We are hoping Infor can be convinced to add the functionality to perform Mass-Imports of Schedule Priorities, rather than the current method of entering them manually.
With an Unfrozen Schedule, we presume the Presentation Sequence, WO want Date, and Wo Priority are critical in determining which Jobs the Concurrent Scheduler plans in first. If Mass Importing of Schedule Priorities is made possible, perhaps from an excel file of exported WO's, we could auto-allocate a large percentage of Schedule Priorities, maybe based upon a Formula Calculation, using multiple criteria, such as (In no particular order) :
Schedule Priority Parameters
- Duration (Schedule the BIG jobs in first, and the smaller jobs around them. Otherwise the BIG jobs end up at the end of your schedule).
- Margin (Prioritise the most profitable work, though i believe the Throughput Reports also help you do this)
- Customer (some companies can treat all their customers as equals; others have top 5 Customers without whom their profitability is greatly affected
- Space (Jobs that require large volumes of Shop Floor / warehouse / Transportation space occasionally need prioritising to minimise the affect on flow)
- Concurrent Resource Availability (some jobs HAVE to happen at a particular time to tie in with concurrent resources, I.E. staff holidays, machine maintenance)
- Multi-level Demands (parts with independent and dependant demand can require fixed schedule dates to feed scheduling deadlines as higher assembly levels)
- New Products (Trials and Primary Manufactures often require elevate priorities)
This is not an exhaustive list of reasons why a Scheduling Priority may be required. Even with only these seven suggested parameters, Mass-Imports of Schedule Priorities could be automated to some extent, (using an excel formula) to assign Scheduling Priorities to a large proportion of most companies' products.
This then would enable the Master Scheduler more time to focus on
- Management of Exceptional circumstances (perhaps requiring a Frozen WO);
- Analysis of Rough Cut Capacity demands and S & OP
- Expedition of Material shortages
- Scrutiny of Forecast Accuracy, Safety Stock Levels and Planning Parameters
- Better management of Peak Loadings (the busier you are, the less time you have to focus on each individual priority)
