Production planning
Scheduling around real orders and the changeover time they cost.
A schedule is a guess that has to survive Monday morning. These articles cover building the week around real orders, counting the time a changeover takes, and replanning when a rush order lands late.
Terms like takt time, lead time and work in process are defined in the plain-language glossary in the floor reference.
Read these first
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Field glossary
Plant floor glossary: maintenance and production terms
Short, plain definitions of the terms used in maintenance, quality and scheduling conversations.
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Working rules
About our notes: how Shop Floor Notes is written
How we write, what we will and will not publish, and how corrections work.
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Field checklist
Preventive maintenance checklist for plant equipment
A shift, weekly, monthly and yearly task list to adapt to your own machines, with notes on lockout and records.
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Field calculator
OEE calculator for a machine or production line
Work out availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift's numbers.