What is The RealTime Manufacturing System?
Software that provides a vital communication link to assist companies to successfully buy, build and ship products to
their customer.
Who needs RealTime Manufacturing?
Any company that buys material, adds value to it and ships it to their customer.
What need does RealTime Manufacturing fulfill for my Company?
RealTime Manufacturing produces Customer Success by organizing and controlling the flow of information from Customer
demand while tracking and measuring the physical flow of material. This increases the throughput and capacity of your
plant by coordinating the physical activities that control and cause the physical movement of material from Vendor to Customer.
Using a simple but powerful interface, the communication of the demand is streamlined and simplified to your workforce to cause
the reduction of time and labor required to buy build and ship products to your Customers.
How does it do it?
Powerful object software technology reduces complexity by making it easier for end users to understand and use while being
deployed on standard Windows 95/98/2000 or NT based personal computer networks.
What are the requirements to run RealTime Manufacturing software?
Microsoft Windows, a file server, an SQL database, some touch screens, bar code equipment and workforce training.
Detailed requirements are in RealTime Technology Group's marketing data sheets or the "RealTime Implementation Guide".
What makes RealTime Manufacturing unique from other systems?
Real-time, On-line Simplicity!
What is the structure of the software system?
The product is comprised of 8 major modules all designed to work together in a real-time on-line communications network.
These modules provide the basic functions and documents to direct the activities of the workforce to buy, build and ship
products while at the same time providing the data analysis to eliminate non-valued activities.
What do each of the major modules in RealTime Manufacturing do?
- Administration
- Communicate Company Policy. Setup the database to allow the operation of all RealTime Manufacturing modules.
- Order Entry
- Translate Customer demand to Shipping, Production, and Purchasing requirements. This is the Gateway to Customer Satisfaction.
- Shipping Dock
- Deliver the right Part, to the right Customer, right On-time with the right labels and documents. Also send advanced
shipping notice when using Electronic Data Interchange with your Customer.
- Purchasing
- Buy the right parts at the right time at the right price. This is the Key to successful Vendor management
- Receiving Dock
- The beginning of Inventory Control, Identify, Verify and Track Vendor deliveries and performance.
- Inventory
- Accurate control and tracking of all Raw, WIP and Finished Goods with ISO900X (MS900X, QS900X) compliance.
- Production Scheduling
- Coordinate the flow of materials to increase throughput and reduce inventory. Build the right Parts at the right
time to satisfy Customer demand.
- Shop Floor Control
- Communicate the Production Schedule to the factory and enable the shop to communicate activities back to the Production
Schedule. Collect and communicate production counts, machine downtime, product defects, material yield and quality status
and more to the workforce.
Some additional Function and Feature concepts included in the system.
Physical Inventory, Material Yield, Product Costing, Customer Returns, Labor Reporting, Return to Vendor,
Material Requirements Planning, Executive Summary Information System, Capacity Requirements Planning, Material
Quality Control, Master Production Schedule, Electronic KANBAN, Outside Processing, Process
Time Analysis, Bar Coded Labels and Scanning, ISO, MS, QS900X Compliance, Machine Downtime, Visual Bill of Materials,
Product Defects.
What are the concepts and technology that are unique to RealTime Manufacturing?
State-of-the-art Technology that is light years ahead of traditional systems. This is the technology that enables your
workforce to make smart decisions. It also reduces the "rocket scientist" mentality that has traditionally bottlenecked
information flow and alienated your workforce.
Just a few of the many innovative ideas at RealTime:
- Object Inventory...
- Results in highly accurate inventory.
- On-Demand Bar Code Printing and Scanning...
- Easy and simple data collection
- Flow Router...
- Defines the how, the where, the cost and the time to make your products.
- Smart Labels...
- Material identification and flow control. Eliminate shop floor confusion and comply with
ISO900X (MS900X, QS900X).
- COP Processor...
- Streamlines the communication of Customer demand to all modules online.
- Smart Entry Grids...
- Fast and easy Customer sales order entry and ship scheduling.
- Smart Scheduling Grids...
- Fast and easy Production scheduling with Drag and Drop simplicity.
- Visual Scheduler - Graphical Planning Board...
- Fast and easy Shop Floor scheduling and communication.
- EDI Control Center...
- Eliminate manual entry of customer orders, streamline and accelerate demand.
- Radio Frequency Interface...
- Portable real-time easy data collection for Inventory and Shipping.
What are the End Results?
The end result of using RealTime Manufacturing is:
Increased Throughput, in other words accelerate the speed of material through the plant.
This will increase your existing capacity to make and ship parts faster to your Customer.
The Return on Investment: Increased Sales and Cash flow!
Decrease Inventory Remove excess inventory out of the supply chain to make room for material
that is needed by Customers.
The Return on Investment: Purchasing cash requirements are reduced. Lead times are reduced due to
increased Vendor communication. More physical space.
Decrease Operational Expense Reduce the labor hours to record transactions. Eliminate traditional
administrative clerical jobs by recording the events in real time.
The Return on Investment: Reduction of general and administrative expenses in your income statement.
Reduction of indirect labor hours.
Build Profits These combined return on investments all add up to significant savings and increased cash
flow to grow your business or increase your profits.
Why don't all manufacturing facilities use RealTime Manufacturing?
