Services
JobTime Systems has performed a variety of consulting services projects that involve detailed scheduling related to critical company issues and decisions at some of the nation's leading companies. These cases illustrate the variety of problems and applications JobTime has been able to successfully model and solve. Each example typically includes the following steps:
 | Definition of a critical issue demanding a detailed scheduling component, |
| Analysis and resolution of the key business issues involved, and |
| The continued use of the application for on-going management studies and reports, with the added benefit of detailed shop scheduling, for a number of years thereafter. |
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Federal Express |
Scheduling detailed maintenance operations on aircraft engines to verify a policy on level-of-spares, designed to protect against unacceptable stock-outs, while also controlling the investment in costly spare aircraft engines. |
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Combustion Engineering |
Demonstrate the ability to assure the on-time delivery of nuclear fuel replenishment at client power plants. Verification included drill-down of finite scheduling in units per day of each sub-assembly component involved in the fuel assembly. |
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Verification of proposed major changes in purchasing policy to synchronize material purchases of smaller and more frequent order quantities, more closely tied to the timing of the scheduled material demands in manufacturing. |
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Schering-Plough Personal Care |
Sizing casual labor pools ("Diverted Labor") to assure steady and stable employment, and to reduce erratic peaking of labor demand. Multiple resource constraints reflected the variety and configuration of packaging labor types which varied with the product being packaged. View Article (PDF Format). |
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Carte International |
Establish the feasibility of Just-in-Time manufacturing for an Assemble-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order Environment manufacturing power transformers. View Article (PDF Format). |
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CD-ROM Facility |
Accurately model CD-ROM extrusion, surfacing, printing and packaging, in a fast turnaround cycle times of 24 to 72 hours. View capacity load, and predict daily shipments, and provide available to promise capability. Add equipment to balance work loads. |
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Maquinados Programados |
Flexible Machining Systems (FMS) present a difficult challenge for finite scheduling. These flexible machines can alternate single parts from a variety of pending orders, in round-robin fashion. Maquinados inventory of over 100 such systems makes it one of the largest such facilities in the world. The challenge was to demonstrate the capability to accurately estimate each order's start and completion date in a complex FMS environment. |
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J. Ray McDermott |
To fabricate the components of an oil drilling platform, a significant volume of repetitive steelwork is required. Demonstrate the ability to accept data from a major project management system, and finite schedule detailed steel shop operations, uploading both start and finish dates of each activity back into the project management system. |
Cominco Metals Limited |
Central Shops was one of the world's largest job shops, with over 500 employees, supporting the needs of a variety of Cominco's mining operations in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Pending the acquisition of a major ERP system, the challenge was to demonstrate the feasibility of detailed finite scheduling across all work centers in the entire Central Shops on a PC Platform. |
Pharmaceuticals
