RUN YOUR BUSINESS
Plan and run production
Specify the job, plan its route, schedule the work and record what happens on the floor.
What you can accomplish
A brochure job needs a cover, a text section, press time and finishing. Follow those parts from specification through scheduling to recorded quantities and costs.
Your reading path
Describe and route the job
Define the parts to make and the operations needed to produce them.
- Describe the parts to produceProduction
- Plan the production stepsProduction
Schedule and coordinate
Allocate work and coordinate the people, tasks and milestones needed to deliver it.
- Schedule the workProduction
- Coordinate people and milestonesProduction
Record and review progress
Capture shop-floor observations and compare the finished work with its production and cost records.
- Record progress on the shop floorProduction
- Review production and costsProduction