And some more sites

We're getting close to the end of the survey of good sites that deal with Production Scheduling. There are two more entries for today.

The first is called Master Production Scheduling. There are quite a few articles here. Some of them are: SaaS (Software as a Service), Open Source ROI, and web-based scheduling. There are also links to directories, portals, and some providers.

The other site is Manufacturing Scheduling. Like the site above, there's an article on ROI. Others involve optimizing your planning time and a brief overview of the benefits of a scheduling system.

Still more Scheduling sites to look at

What a way to start the week! Here are a couple more good sites to look at about Scheduling. The first one has some nice info about producing a realistic manufacturing schedule. Other articles look at the differences that may occur between a scheduling system used for Production and one used for R & D.

The other one for today has a couple of articles on Constraint Based scheduling. There is also a good page about Advanced Planning Software, as well as some dealing with Artificial Intelligence.

That's about all for now. There are still a few more that I should mention, so those will have to be saved for a future date.

Finishing up with CRM

Well, we're getting much closer to finishing the CRM project for Stone Interiors. They've been importing their live data for further testing, and everything is going well. We're concurrently doing the Inventory system, and have started on the Purchasing system. After that we'll head to the Scheduling system. Here's a link to some info about Scheduling.

For Inventory, each one of the slabs of stone is assigned a unique ID, and we're getting a Thermal Bar Code printer to print that label, using some ZPL. I haven't used ZPL before, but we have a couple of samples that we can test when we get the printer later this afternoon. It'll be fun to see how the ZPL format works.

In a previous post I'd mentioned that I've started a Total Quality Management blog. We also have a nice site dealing with TQM. We also have a blog about Agile Manufacturing Systems.