Once production orders and schedules have been raised by the TROPOS Process and Materials Planning modules, the Production Monitoring module is used to track progress against the production plan.

The schedule of production tasks can be viewed by production line, schedule, production order or resource in the form of work-to-lists which highlight which tasks are available to start.

Tasks can be interactively replanned to take account of local knowledge on the shop floor so that production activities can be optimised. All changes are automatically fed back to planning for visibility.

TROPOS tracks the progress against the production plan at a level you decide. You can record or backflush material and resource consumption and the production of finished products, co-products, by-products, recycled material, and waste. This recording can be performed by date, shift or physical time against a schedule, order or individual process stage including logging partial completions of intermediate products.
Where materials are backflushed, completion recording at any level will automatically record the usage of the appropriate amount of material.

TROPOS produces physical and financial performance reports at intervals chosen by you. These reports analyse yields and highlight exceptional variances. They also compare standard and actual production rates, use percentages, and utilisation levels. You decide which resources, production lines, processes, or departments to monitor. TROPOS supports data input from process controllers; automatic test equipment, meters and weigh-scales, bar code readers, laser scanners, and magnetic stripe readers. Standard TROPOS documentation prints bar codes allowing quick and easy monitoring of inventory and production.

TROPOS Production Monitoring

• Work-to-lists
  • Resource
  • Line
  • Schedule
  • Order
  • Shows tasks available to start
  • Shows expected start dates where not available
• Local Scheduling
  • Resequence tasks
  • Change dates
  • Change machines
  • Automatically reflected back to Planning and the MPS
• Resource Bookings
  • Machines, Employees, Materials
  • Backflush at standard or Record Actual
  • Record by schedule, order, process stage or step
• Production Recording
  • By day, shift, time
  • By Schedule, Order and/or stage
  • Quantity Good and Reject
  • Yield variances
  • Reject Reason Codes
  • Reject, rework and work-off loops
  • Record in dual units eg. Kg and number off
  • Divert part finished paterials to another order
  • Downtime recording with reasons
• Production Quality
  • Full traceability
  • Tests recorded
  • Machine Monitoring
  • Critical Control Points
  • Auditable
• Production Budgets
  • Throughput Rates by line and product group
  • Tolerances for Rates, Resource Usage, and Cost
• Variance Reporting
  • Actual vs Planned
  • Planned vs Standard
  • By Line, Product Group, Product, Schedule, Order and Stage
  • Quality and Yield
• Work-in-Progress Costing
  • All bookings interfaced to Ledgers automatically
  • Planned and Unplanned Variances highlighted
  • Actual, Average-weighted and Standard costing options