Floor & machines
Planning that knows where every machine stands.
The floor as a plan.
A digital floor plan shows where things stand: machines, stations, obstacles and aisles. Drag it around and see for yourself.
Machines and stations are placed at their real positions in the floor admin. The plan carries an aisle network, so the distance between two stations is the shortest way over the aisles, not a straight line through a wall. Where no aisle has been recorded, Gimel falls back to the straight line and says so wherever the number appears: an estimate never looks like a measurement.
The factory twin, the flow view and the stage and station views show the same plant from different sides.
Work goes where it finishes earliest.
Jobs are assigned by machine type and by location.
A job only goes to stations of the right type. Among equal stations, Gimel asks where the order is finished earliest and adds up queue, changeover, processing and the transport from storage. That spreads work across machines by itself and clusters it by material.
- Every choice shows its reasons
- An assessment is broken down into named factors, each with its contribution and a sentence. A station that was ruled out says why.
- The foreman can overrule
- The overruling is recorded as a reason on the internal order. It does not flow back into the rule.
- Same input, same result
- The assignment does not learn from the past. It computes with what can be measured: machine values, queues, setup state and distances.
- An assignment is not a price
- It may change whenever the floor changes, and no quote moves with it.
Machines & stations.
A station has capabilities, a queue and a status, and every machine gets the cutting sequence that suits it.
A customer order passes through four kinds of work, and each belongs to one kind of station. A station carries the machine values the plan computes with, a queue and a setup state, so that a changeover is visible before it costs time.
| Station | Work | What waits there |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Pick | Internal orders whose material is not staged yet |
| Plotter or waterjet | Cut | Internal orders with their sheet drawing |
| Packing table | Pack | Orders with parts that are cut but not yet shipped |
| Desk | Process | Orders that still need attention in the office |
The cutting sequence follows from the machine. On a cutting plotter, holes are cut before the contour, inner rings before the rings around them, and the plate is cut from the middle outward. A waterjet takes the classic sequence, because there it is programmed in preparation.
The twin tells you what to change.
It shows where things stand, and it works out what that costs you.
The optimise view looks for the findings that are worth acting on. Each one comes with a figure and a sentence.
- Bottlenecks
- Idle machines next to overloaded ones
- Changeovers in the queue
- Routes walked over and over every day
- Dates your own estimate already misses today
Nothing is changed automatically. A person reorders with a click in the flow view, and every proposal says what it would bring.