With SCHEMA you can generate in seconds the best production schedule for your plant to fulfill and deliver your orders on time.
You can follow up on the schedule with what is happening on the production floor and make the necessary changes on time. You can easily analyze where you can improve your plant and reach an efficiency level of excellence!
Click on the following buttons to learn more about how SCHEMA works.
If you have more questions, you can click on the chat bubble below the right side and a person from our team will support you with more information or visit our Help Center.
How to move within SCHEMA
The menu is on the left side, click on any icon to expand it. Each section may have different subsections.
Click outside the menu to remove the expansion.
From the upper right side of the screen, click on the profile picture to configure your company data, register new users and access permissions for your device.
Dashboard
This panel summarizes your main indicators of efficiency, performance and quality.
Monitor your data in more detail by clicking on them and they will direct you to the report in question, or you can also click on the section Performance n the menu where you can choose which report you want to see.
Here we show you a Gantt visualization of the optimal schedule generated.
Each row represents a machine, the molds are visualized with gray diagonal stripes and the parts are the batches that come after a mold, they can contain the color you selected in Work in Process. You can make modifications to the schedule:
Move the order of production batches of parts using drag and drop.
Increase and decrease production batches with double click on a batch.
Increase and reduce the installation time of a mold with double click on a mold.
Add a downtime with double click on a mold. Select the category, the reason for downtime and the time. To add your list of downtimes, go to the section Downtimes and create it.
Add notes on each machine to indicate a priority to the production floor.
Add a new production batch with double click on a mold.
Add a new mold and its production in a machine, with a click on the name of a machine.
You can check the Timetables to see more in detail what each shift should do.
You can also see the Production Orders for each batch production with the specific requirements of raw materials.
The best way to start your journey is with just a sample database.
The first step to start your journey in SCHEMA is add at least one of the following to your database: 1 Work-in-Process, 1 Finished Product, 1 Mold, and 1 Machine. These items should be related to each one another to be able to say that 1 Production Route is complete.
Once you have at least 1 complete Product Route, you can add a Customer Order and create your first production schedule.
With an ongoing schedule, you can capture real production and automatically begin to generate the Key Performance Indicators of your plant.
First, go to Raw Materials and click on the button located on the upper right side to follow my filling instructions.
Machines Production
Here you can enter the records of the production of your machines. The capture is divided by machine, click on the name of one to start. Clicking on the button will display a menu with the following options:
'Add Production':
'Add Downtime':
'Add Cut':
'Remove this Action':
The data must be captured in minutes. Do not forget to click on the button located on each machine
Sometimes, disabling some mold cavities can be the quickest solution to avoid stopping your production. Despite the speed of emergency response, doing this affects your plant's performance.
In active production, when an installed mold cavity becomes fouled and starts to produce part defects, canceling mold cavities is a quick and timely solution that allows production to continue and pinpoints areas of the mold that require further maintenance.
On the other hand, although this is one of the best solutions and that sometimes can be lost in the daily routine, it affects the performance of the plant because it increases production time, reduces the production rate with respect to the programmed and increases scrap, besides it is a task to which a definitive solution could be sought.
SCHEMA helps you to register those unforeseen events in the production capture by editing the number of cavities that the mold has available, and thus have a production capture as real as possible that guarantees more accurate reports.
Don't worry, there is no more work to do, because by integrating this editing/logging field in your production capture you will get more accurate indicators and reports that will allow you to take action on this situation such as scheduling preventive maintenance, looking for better part-mold-machine compatibility or even including some additive to your material recipe to avoid defects in the molded parts.
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