Company Background

The primary focus of JobTime Systems, Inc. is Production Scheduling, based on Advanced Finite Planning and Scheduling, and Optimized Material Planning and Ordering.

JobTime Systems, Inc. (JSI) has been the home, since August, 1983, of the world's first simulation-based, parallel-process production scheduling system. JSI was also one of the earliest pioneers in the field of Advanced Planning and Scheduling able to model both capacity and material constraints starting from 1987.

Our first shipment of a finite scheduling system, onTime, dates back to August, 1984. Our first product was named onTime.

Prior to starting JobTime Systems, Inc. the 15-year history of JSI's founders, in both university and industrial settings, involve several of the world's largest engineering/construction simulation applications, combined to form the basis for an effective manufacturing scheduling system on the inexpensive PC-platform:

	Database driven modeling to represent the entities that supply and demand capacity.
	The ability to represent both queuing and event-lists as indexed columns in a "task" based data table.
	Use deterministic service times, as opposed to probabilistic process times, tied to known set of actual orders, instead of a hypothetical and theoretical population of shop orders.
	Processing data structures populated in memory from disk based databases. .

To the best of our knowledge, onTime was the first packaged discrete event production-scheduling product sold in the PC market place. Due to the historic and amazing rate of improvement in the PC platform over the past 25 years, our database orientation became a significant advantage.

Later, onTime evolved into our JobTime product line, and was converted to a more powerful programming platform to support extensible, C-like capabilities and C-like speed, automatically caching all data in memory. This design choice allowed us to add visual Schedule Board and flexible reporting and graphics features, as well as numerous constraints of Advanced Planning Scheduling, which had been requested by our clients during our first three years of promoting onTime.

Initially our company name was Wyman Associates, Inc., but was changed to JobTime Systems, Inc. in 1987, commensurate with the release of our JobTime Plus LAN product.

Over the years, JobTime has developed a reputation for having a powerful scheduling engine, with the ability to model complex manufacturing systems, and still provide fast scheduling speed on a PC platform. JobTime fast scheduling with the current generation of Gigahertz CPU computers can schedule 20,000 tasks per minute, per CPU Gigahertz, exclusive of input/output time.

We constantly improve our original scheduling-engine principles in current JobTime scheduling products. Today, we use the latest Microsoft development technologies, totally compatible with all releases of Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Server 2008 R2. We still support our clients who are using older SQL versions including SQL Server 2000 & 2005. Our new development design has been carefully engineered to allow us to migrate easily to serve other large scale relational database systems including Oracle and DB2.

Our traditional scheduling concepts make full use of object-oriented programming, normalized relational database, referential integrity validation, thin client, multi-tier architecture, and our proprietary scheduling algorithms also feature high-speed native integer math processing for optimal scheduling performance.

JobTime also has been expanded to support virtually every currently popular production scheduling philosophy including Just in Time (JiT), Theory of Constraints (TOQ), Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR), Finite Forward/Backward (FFB), and Manual Drag and Drop (MADD).

Since our founding, we have been consistently dedicated to the improvement of manufacturing by staying focused on "excellence in precision scheduling", which is our company motto.

Our vision is to provide "best-of-breed" Advanced Planning and Production Scheduling products which satisfy the following needs:

Production Scheduling that recognizes realistic run times and resource constraints.

Visibility, tracking and updating of orders on the shop floor.

Secondary Resource constraints including Labor, Tooling and Floor Space

Resource Groups feature for advanced modeling requirements:

Labor skill groups for subsets of people qualified to do specific operations

Tool usability groups for subsets of tools to use on specific operations

Floor space limited to specific operations

Consumable Resource Feature

Model specific persons simultaneously tending 2 or more machines.

Limit effective efficiency per machine being simultaneously tended

Estimate more of the following items with greater accuracy:

order completion dates

work backlog bottlenecks

work center queuing over time

resources in use over time

when and where to adjust capacity to demand using overtime, weekends, outsourcing, and alternate resources

	Long term capacity planning for equipment additions.
	Long term material planning to meet forecast demand.
	What-If test-bed for simulation scenarios based on current live data.

By offering a variety of Advanced Planning and Production Scheduling Products, we have been able serve a variety of small to mid-range manufacturing clients ranging in size from $5 million to $500 million at a given plant. We also have several Fortune 1000 clients among our customer base.

Our best customer match-up are clients who need:

	greater shop production scheduling control,
	greater insight to see their shop's production constraints,
	scheduling that delivers what it promises,
	a specialist "best of breed" third-party vendor,
	prefer an integrated solution, rather than a piecemeal solution,
	and want it to be FASTER, CHEAPER, and EASIER to install.

If this sounds like you, please request our information today.

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