|  FlexGen 4 Shop 
                                      Floor Control will help you meet your promised 
                                      delivery dates from production by allowing 
                                      you to plan, monitor and control all your 
                                      shop floor activity.  You can track 
                                      the status of work-in-process and collect 
                                      labor information for timely performance 
                                      analysis. You'll be able to track jobs 
                                      throughout the production cycle, monitor 
                                      and respond to jobs running behind schedule 
                                      and improve communication between departments. 
                                      Your production control staff will have 
                                      access to the latest information including 
                                      work order location, due dates, work cell 
                                      activity, work cell loading and labor and 
                                      machine efficiency. 
                                       With Shop Floor Control, you can establish 
                                        production standards and create sequenced 
                                        video routings for all your manufactured 
                                        or assembled parts.  You can then 
                                        review, monitor and update your production 
                                        parameters for each operation as often 
                                        as needed, online realtime. 
                                       You will also have an online graphical 
                                        view of your shop capacity, down to a 
                                        machine or work cell level, for all pending 
                                        planned orders and work orders. With 
                                        FlexGen 4's easy to use graphical tools, 
                                        you can analyze your work cell loading 
                                        to identify and correct over and under 
                                        cell utilization, order status, past due 
                                        production and cause, plus generally eliminate 
                                        the source of any deviations to the production 
                                        plan. 
                                      By using Shop Floor 
                                        Control you can: 
                                      
                                        - Use forward and backward scheduling 
                                          methods to optimize production and assure 
                                          on-time delivery.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Analyze the production plan in "What-If" 
                                          mode, down to work center level, to 
                                          adjust for changes in schedules, machine 
                                          capacity or order quantities.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Identify production constraints including 
                                          capacity and material before they impact 
                                          production.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Divert parts to outside vendors who 
                                          perform value added services, with both 
                                          dollars and scheduling of the operation 
                                          immediately known by production.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Facilitate scheduling of both labor 
                                          and machine capacity where assembly 
                                          hours for complex components may become 
                                          a production constraint.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Use multiple planning units of measure 
                                          including each or batch, then load your 
                                          production plan and analyze available 
                                          capacity in terms of both labor or machine.
 
                                          
                                         
                                        - Implement full RF bar-code technology 
                                          to move and track parts through production 
                                          assuring accurate and timely feedback 
                                          to production and customers.
 
                                          
                                         
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