Methods & industrialization
Your production times, line balancing, skills and headcount needs in one place, fed by a single database. Every department works from the same figures, kept up to date and synchronized across all workstations.
Examples of tailor-made solutions
- Shared time base: all times are centralized and updated from the database. A change reaches every user, with no files to send back and no versions to compare.
- Line balancing: spread tasks across workstations, compare times with the rate targets and spot overloaded stations.
- Headcount needs: calculate the headcount required for the target rates, from the standard times. The result can be compared with balancing done by hand.
- Qualification matrix: track each operator's skills by workstation and by task, and spot the versatility to develop.
- Documents linked to tasks: attach to each task the documents already on your server (work instructions, drawings, sheets). No duplication: the files stay with you.
- Scenario comparison: evaluate several allocations of operations and workstations from shared assumptions, then measure the effect of a rate change.
Your everyday challenges
Times, routings and workload assumptions often live in several files, held by a few people. Every product or rate change forces you to redo the calculations and check the versions.
Our approach is to democratize data: a single source, available to every department that needs it, each with its own view. Methods keeps the times up to date, production tracks the rates, and other departments rely on trustworthy figures instead of asking for yet another extract.