2000-04-01 : Taylor Introduces New Factory Scheduling Solution to Facilitate Demand-Driven Production Strategies of Small- and Mid-Sized Manufacturers
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Taylor Introduces New Factory Scheduling Solution to Facilitate Demand-Driven Production Strategies of Small- and Mid-Sized Manufacturers HatTrick™ Designed for Growing Plants That Can No Longer Manage Volume, Complexity of Orders With Manual Scheduling Methods
Atlanta-Manufacturing software developer Taylor Manufacturing Systems, Inc., today announced HatTrick™ , an agile factory scheduling solution for growing small- and mid-sized plants that must manage a large number of complex orders in a customer-focused, e-business marketplace.
The Windows®-based system, which will be distributed by Taylor's value-added partners, draws on Taylor's long-time shop floor scheduling and monitoring experience and brings demand-driven production functionality to the marketplace at a competitive price.
“HatTrick increases customer responsiveness by offering more accurate promise dates and shorter lead times,” said David Pleak, Vice President of Operations at Taylor. “Shop floor monitoring and the proactive workflow notification of events help plants re-adjust and re-optimize schedules quickly to keep customers satisfied and operations running at peak efficiency,” he said.
HatTrick features a proven scheduling engine based on all constraints, an interactive Gantt chart, real-time connectivity to ERP and MES systems, user-defined rules and weights, and the depth and functionality for modeling complex environments. The software supports Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 on a Windows NT server.
President Neil Taylor said that the new product release comes at a time when business-to-business e-commerce and other marketplace pressures are forcing small- and mid-sized manufacturers to actively address how to make continuous improvements and achieve the optimized production, order visibility, operational reliability, and overall flexibility that are required for a true, customer driven focus.
“No amount of investment in closer ties with customers and suppliers, lean manufacturing initiatives or e-commerce technologies can be fully effective unless the factory is responsive to the new demands placed on it,” Taylor said.
HatTrick will be available in May through participating ERP and MES partners who will also provide deployment, integration, support and consultation services.
“Our partners' relationship with each customer places them in a unique position to understand the requirements of the enterprise, the supply chain and the plant model,” said Pleak. “This ensures that HatTrick solutions will efficiently address production issues, support manufacturing technology and e-business objectives, and provide measurable cost reductions with a quick return on investment,” he said.
The Atlanta-based Taylor Manufacturing Systems, Inc. also develops and markets the TESS®Scheduler, TESS Operator Panel, and TESS Dashboard. Taylor is widely known for its strong plant-centric focus and in creating applications which handle complex manufacturing processes, generate optimized schedules based on a company's business objectives, and exchange information with other business systems for a complete real-time production scheduling solution.