CLIENTS
Discover how our customers use Core Scheduler to maximise resources and transform demand management.
Engineering case study: Kenco Techniques
Live updating algorithms tame cascading production complexity.
Kenco Techniques makes precision components for motorsport, aerospace and medical industries. They operate a job shop manufacturing process that traditionally poses intense scheduling challenges.
Kenco needed software that could manage extreme production-flow variability without disrupting legacy systems.
Core Scheduler’s dedicated functionality was the perfect way to implement a planning upgrade minus unnecessary costs in time and money.
Since deployment, Core Scheduler has become a critical component of the daily running of the factory.
Our Shop Floor Data Capture stations are pivotal. They connect all key staff at Kenco to a single source of truth.
The shop floor team update the system as circumstances change. Updates are automatically pulled through to the planning engineer’s master schedule.
Management can monitor progress (even remotely) so everyone is empowered by one shared picture.
The effect is transformational on a business that must constantly juggle highly elastic demand, short-notice orders, custom requests, wide product variability, and small-batch quantities.
Food Processing case study: farne Salmon & Trout
Real-time data insights and fast planning tools enable rapid reaction to volatile demand.
Farne Salmon & Trout is a major salmon processing factory that depends on highly accurate forecasting and demand planning.
Raw material processing varies from one to three days depending on the finished product, but new orders require same-day delivery.
Core Scheduler’s shop floor data capture capability integrated with RFID-tracked trolleys enables managers to make granular adjustments amid ever-changing conditions.
Solving for maximum use of available materials – given capacity and time pressures – places a premium on the swift output of highly quality schedules. These can be quickly evaluated, tweaked, and released for instant shop floor execution.
Core Scheduler further streamlines a complex bill of materials (BOM) environment by sequencing efficient changeovers and minimising idle time for better overall equipment effectiveness.
The overall impact? Agile order fulfilment, reduced inventories, optimal use of production lines, and happy customers.
