infoBoard and Material Planning

The infoBoard planning board improves the achievement of objectives in the magic square of production.

The Magic Square of Production includes: short cycle times, adherence to schedules, a high workload capacity and low stock levels.

The target of low stock levels seemed to play no role at all in infoBoard’s first ten years. Warehouse administration programs should take care of that.

But on another level, thanks to the “just in time” idea that has finally been fully implemented, material availability is suddenly a hot topic for infoBoard.

We have, for example, recently been able to help companies with a strong dependence on material availability. Because the material for a ship’s turbochargers has to be put in the oven in time for chemical immersion, the carbon wheels have to be just-in-time from the deep-freeze store 36 hours before the start of the production of carbon fibers for the aircraft industry within 72 hours. infoBoard plugins ensure that planning is monitored and colours are changed after a certain time.

 

In plant engineering, many parts are ordered externally. This means that assembly can only be carried out when all of the parts have arrived and been approved by the quality control department. But how does the information about the order and the arrival of parts get from the ERP System to the infoBoard? How can it be ensured that it is ordered on time? infoBoard has to specify the dates. Here, the reversal of the pattern orders is of new importance. The ordering process prior to production is calculated by infoBoard! Delivery changes are implemented automatically thanks to the infoBoard Converter and Synchronisation Server. The order numbers are still not known at the time when the order and deadlines are generated. Therefore, we offer a web application to transfer this information over.

Now, objects delayed beyond their latest delivery date will flash red on the planning board. With this new visualisation of delivery date / milestone overshoots, a perfect interaction between the system is possible.

Another challenge: on building sites, the decisive factor in relation to profit is adherence to the expected number of working hours and designated amounts of material. Is it possible to plan the delivery of construction site materials with infoBoard?

Yes! Instead of paperwork on the material row under the project (see “simple project planning” with infoBoard).Schedule deliveries with appointments, quantities etc. in the userdefined attributes page, and create a billing sheet for the construction site using an infoBoard BusinessController Web application. It doesn’t have to be an ERP system as well.