Your production schedule, smarter
Production scheduling is the central nervous system of every manufacturing shopfloor, serving as the critical governing interface between production planning and execution. The advanced scheduling capabilities in Finite Scheduler by Rockwell Automation are designed to ensure that you can confidently translate your production plans into a detailed roadmap for execution. Finite Scheduler improves scheduling accuracy, increases throughput, and drives on-time delivery through its use of detailed modeling of all production constraints, advanced scheduling algorithms, and real-time production information.
Create production flexibility
Review optimized production schedules and select the one that best fits your operational needs
Reduce on-hand inventory
With production scheduling that’s informed by available resources, on-hand inventory is reduced and efficiently put into the hands of customers.
Improve on-time delivery
Finite Scheduler smooths the production process with optimized scheduling, increasing accuracy and ensuring product makes it out the door.
Minimize changeover/setup times
Digitally model critical resource constraints and operational processes so that the production schedule makes the most of every minute in a day.
Reimagine your production scheduling
Stop managing your shop floor using unrealistic schedules based on guesswork. With a Finite Scheduler integration, you can start managing production operations with optimized schedules created using advanced scheduling algorithms. Learn more about how Finite Scheduler will reimagine your production scheduling, increase customer satisfaction, and maximize operational efficiencies.
Production scheduling powered by pillars of smart manufacturing
Plex Finite Scheduler considers all factors influencing your production operations, ensuring the production schedule is highly optimized.
Connect
Connect organizational planning with manufacturing execution without any work arounds.
Automate
Automate the generation of probable and optimized schedules using up-to-date production data production schedules based on your operational needs.
Track
Track automatically the availability of critical resource constraints, like workforce availability and equipment downtime, and utilize that information to improve the achievability of the production schedule.
Analyze
Analyze different scenarios of resource availability and production process configuration as a means of further optimizing the production schedule.
Plex Finite Scheduler Features
Resource constraint modeling
Create production schedules that reflect available production resources, such as equipment, tooling, storage devices, pools of labor, and skilled/certified employees
Production process modeling
Model different steps of operations (setup, cycle, teardown/clean-down), capacity type, buffer type, and wait time constraints
Optimized scheduling generation
Quickly generate production schedules optimized for various business objectives
Interactive user interface
Easily review production schedules through a user-friendly interface