For 28 years, JobTime Systems, Inc. has been proud to lead the transformation of the world’s production scheduling software, to create powerful finite scheduling software.  The term ‘finite’ not only means ‘limited’ but also emphasizes ‘real-world’, from the viewpoint of the actual shop planners and schedulers. The supply of shop capacity is based on shop departments, work centers, machines, and working calendars.  

Gone are the days of schedules which show abnormal overloads e.g. of 580%, 322%, or 135%.  The implication of overloads is that some jobs will finish past their due-dates.  We educate our users to see that estimated lateness is a warning signal and is therefore a positive not a negative, because it gives a clear warning sign on each job that can potentially find itself in late-delivery if corrective action is not taken promptly. This means JobTime helps you be proactive, and to also be proactive on precisely the right subset of your jobs. This is exactly how you can cut late deliveries dramatically. This principle is your key to success in implementing Finite Scheduling Software.  

JobTime^®5  displays the estimated future delay at each step in an estimated late job. This lets you know exactly where and when it is critical to add capacity by one means or another. 

JobTime’s innovative Overtime Requirements Analysis shows, in aggregate for all late jobs, exactly where and when and by how much capacity would need to be added to be able to consistently achieve 100% on-time performance. 

Therefore, the work centers which are indicated as contributing the greatest amount of delay to late jobs are clearly the same work centers which require highest priority in your efforts to expand capacity.  And the work centers which have extremely low projection future utilization are the same work centers where labor (and conceivably even machines and tooling) might be freed up and reassigned to work centers which will be running short of capacity. 

Therefore, a scheduling system which is based on progressively better and better estimates of setup times and run-rates has the potential to generate feasible schedules that can actually be followed on the shop floor, because they consider the most salient constraints placed on manufacturing operations. 

 The JobTime^®5 Scheduling Software gives schedule visibility that enables you to accomplish the following goals: