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Routing graph
Finite capacity levelling
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Buy & plan07 of 15 · Production planner
A routing graph, a finite-capacity scheduler, and a simulator you can run before you buy the machine.
A window factory is not a line, it is three streams that meet at glazing. Planning here works on that shape rather than pretending the floor is a queue.
01Routing graph
Work orders from a routing graph
- Frame, sash and glass run in parallel and converge where they physically must
- Planned minutes from the work centre’s own capacity, not a flat estimate
- An order cannot be confirmed without an approval and a material list
- An order cannot be closed while a work order is still open
02Finite capacity levelling
Finite capacity, across orders rather than within one
- Each operation starts after its predecessors and after the machine is free
- Two orders contend for the same work centre instead of quietly overlapping
- Level every ready order together and see how many operations were placed
03Factory simulation
Try the change before you make it
- A floor planner fed with your real machines, their positions and your open order book
- Run an experiment: throughput per day and OEE, with confidence intervals
- Saved scenarios, so “what if we bought the second welder” is a record rather than an argument
What this desk watches
The numbers on the wall
The live factory overview — machines running and down, work in progress, average OEE, packages ready, print queue, energy drawn — and the Factory Planner itself.
Operations placed per levelling run
Machine contention
Planned against actual minutes
What it produces
01A production order with its work orders scheduled
02A floor layout scenario
03A throughput and OEE projection
