JobTime® 5 Level 4

	APS Material Constraints Scheduling
	Max-Splits feature allocates Excess Capacity
	First Start/Last Start Time-of Day Constraints (Process Control)
	Seize/Release Token Constraints (Downstream Process)
	Job Quote Module to Test Due-Dates for Quote Jobs
	Batch Processes - Orders Batched and Run Together
	Obsolescence Constraint - Downstream Capacity Check
	Each Level-4 Feature can be Customized & Configured to Client Needs

Finite Capacity Scheduling

Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Read the JobTime® 5 Press Release: JobTime® 5 is freshly designed, from the ground up. JobTime® 5 represents the latest in Microsoft compatible technology, COM/DCOM, including multi-tier architecture, ADO, and the award winning scalable MS-SQL Server database. SQL Server scales all the way from palm pilots and laptops up to the largest NT server networks. JobTime® 5 is your best solution for Advanced Planning and Finite Scheduling in the new millennium.

Seamless Upgrade from JobTime Plus

JobTime® 5 automatically imports data sets from JobTime4, just as our JobTime4 version imported data from JobTime Plus. With JobTime® 5 now in full release, existing JobTime4 clients, with active maintenance, can still upgrade JobTime® 5 at no additional software charge. Your investment in data, training and integration with previous versions of JobTime scheduling is completely safe and preserved! This means that if you're thinking about buying a new APS system, JobTime® 5 is the right system for you.

Training and Interface

The time required to interface JobTime to a host ERP system is measured in days, not months. We provide client instructions on how to use Microsoft SQL Server tools to map their host data in JobTime® 5's Custom Import Database. Initial Data flow is typical from ERP's in about 1 or 2 days. Our Custom Import Service takes your data and performs all the adjustments, filtering, transformations and conversions that we jointly define with you in a Client Custom Import Statement of Requirements. You are always aware and confident of the actions we provide to build your unique Custom Import Interface Application. As a safeguard, we have a standard set of checks to be absolutely certain that your converted data will meet JobTime's standards for consistency and completeness. Any data elements which do not meet the standard are quarantined and viewed in reports, to guide you in fixing data in your host system, or to refine your statement requirements so we can correctly move your data successfully into JobTime® 5 seamlessly in a stable manner over the months and years of your future use of JobTime® 5. With JobTime® 5 , you can typically expect full implementation within 60 days or less, assuming active and steady participation by your in-house staff.

Reports

JobTime® 5 uses Seagate Crystal Reports, the world's leader in report generation and deployment. The Seagate technology gives you basic reports, and allows your users to customize and build additional queries and reports as needed. You can preview data, create custom queries, automatically schedule unattended reports across your network or intranet, using standard print output, HTML web pages, asp pages, or downloadable Adobe PDF files. You can also easily interface any report writer which accepts data from Microsoft SQL Server.

Add Supply Chain features, by allowing your vendors to have secured access to your intranet to review your latest projected material needs from their company, because JobTime® 5 can tie materials usage to your finite capacity production schedule. Push the Supply Chain even farther by allowing your customers to review their orders, and even the current and projected stage of progress in the production process. Avoid countless phone calls from customers asking "Where's my order today in your shop" by making their order status information available over the web. Password protection and encryption will protected and limit only approved customers and vendors to view your link in the overall supply chain.

Capacity Modeling

JobTime® 5 includes the best advanced scheduling features and concepts of JobTime Plus, but was 100% re-written, using the latest Windows and object oriented technologies. JobTime® 5 adds a new paradigm for flexibility to model both machine and resource details. JobTime® 5 sees not only work centers with their respective work stations, but it can also model, separately, a system of resources and resource-groups. Resources can be defined in hierarchies and groups of resources. Resources can be tools, floor space, operators, inspectors. Groups can either be collections of a single resource, or even a mix of resources. In addition to a work center, a given "crew" of resources can be specified and referenced as the "crew" to use in one or more routing operation steps. Calendars can be assigned at any level: work center, work station, resource group, or resource.

Database Benefits

JobTime® 5 uses Microsoft SQL Server Database, which improves finite scheduling in three important ways:

	Scalability of the SQL-Server database. Did you know that JobTime® 5 lets you schedule from a training session on a standalone laptop? As the scheduling model, interest and database grows, you can move the application to a desktop. Next, you can allow up to four co-workers to also access the database on your desktop. When you are ready for prime time, simply move the database to any SQL Server compliant server (NT, 2000 or Novell). SQL Server on a server is not included with the JobTime® 5 License, but on a single dedicated laptop or PC desktop, the free but equivalent MSDE SQL Server system can be installed.
	As your business grows, you will be able to accept growing traffic from customers and vendors, as you grow your "Supply Chain Management" system. JobTime® 5 will be right there to deliver your data needs across the world's largest server systems, due to the flexibility of SQL Server.
	Microsoft and Compaq have reported setting new world database transaction speed records using SQL Server. A clustered server of multiple processors recently handled a staggering 3600 transactions per second.
	Reliability of the SQL Server environment. Consider easier backup automation, transaction-rollback technology, robust user authentication, SQL trigger efficiency and consistency, and you will see how JobTime® 5 keeps you working safely.
	Mainstream Positioning. You can be certain on of-going Microsoft support and improvement of the SQL Server Technology. You can also be confident of finding qualified Microsoft SQL Server qualified database administrators and technical developers, both now and in the future.

Visual Schedule Board

JobTime® 5 also provides a visual schedule board, to enable immediate execution schedule adjustments:

	Managing Execution: You can see work orders visually through the entire production cycle. You can simultaneously see all competing orders on the same machines. Make minor "fine-tuning" adjustments such as switching the to-do operation sequence without having to fully re-schedule.
	Promising Delivery: visualize your machine loading to determine capacity available for "hot" or last-minute jobs. JobTime® 5 knows your current capacity commitments, and will schedule into the available un-used hours of capacity, assuring that other orders are not disturbed. You can manually moving orders, and JobTime® 5 can show you where the following tasks will land. This shows you the on-time impact of moving a given operation.
	What If Analysis: Shift your capacity (over-time or sub-contract) and see if late jobs will finish on-time. Impose a machine breakdown and see the impact. Re-schedule maintenance to pick up short-term capacity. See it now, not later.

Features

JobTime® 5 continues the strong feature set of JobTime Plus and JobTime4, but it modernizes the database architecture of the system. Our thin-client concepts let your system scale from small to large, and grow as your business grows. In short, JobTime® 5 is the finite scheduling system that you won't outgrow.

	Zoom In / Zoom Out to view the horizon at the detail you desire
	Highlight all operations of a given work order
	Display late orders in red
	Dynamically re-schedule tasks you move, recognizing working calendar
	Move impacted tasks on the same machine accurately into the future
	Display full part or order number by moving the mouse next to a task
	Display the full operation detailed field dialog by double clicking a task
	Let you re-arrange machine-center rows and re-size width of the rows
	Scroll the board horizontally or vertically using true Windows controls
	Validate moving a task to not violate stream or overlapping operations
	Validate moving a task to machines not permitted as alternates
	Validate moving a task to a date prior to the Work Order release date

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