Lynq unveils Visual Planner scheduling software

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Dec 10, 2008

Lynq has announced the launch of its Visual Planner manufacturing production planning and scheduling software.

Visual Planner has been designed to fully integrate with Exact Macola Progression and Macola ES.

The software provides manufacturer's production planning departments with a natural, graphical view of its work centres.

It allows the scheduling of work, both automatically and manually, onto each work centre with an easy drag-and-drop function or through multiple methods of automatic scheduling.

The Exact Macola package is updated with all changes made to the schedule, so materials, labour and production line availability can be planned down to the finest detail.

With Visual Planner, the production planner can amend the working calendar for each work centre, so working hours can be adjusted to meet production needs.

The capacity of each work centre can be amended to meet demand on a day-by-day basis.

The level of detail can be instantly changed from hours to days or weeks to show what production is planned in each work centre.

Visual Planner features extensive enquiries from the graphical schedules into Exact Macola data.

This allows the production planner to see trial kitting lists, stock information, customer orders, bills or materials, component purchase orders, and production or shop order details.

The software has been designed to allow groups of departments or work centres to be assigned to different planners, so more than one person can work on the schedule at the same time without conflict.

The automatic scheduling process is designed to allow different ways to both define the available capacity and assign orders.

The scheduling allows constraints to be applied so orders are not scheduled earlier than specified, and also keeps existing scheduled orders in their assigned place so no unnecessary changes are passed to the Macola MRP software.

Written with the Microsoft.net tools, Visual Planner makes production activity more efficient and is compatible with up-to-date operating systems and software.