Production Scheduling for Precision Engineering

What's inside

• ✓ DIFOT: the number that matters most — what Delivered In Full, On Time actually means, and why most manufacturers are surprised when they first measure it
• ✓ Three disruptions on repeat — rush orders, bottleneck resources, and visibility gaps: why every precision shop hits them, and why effort alone doesn't fix them
• ✓ Three stages of scheduling maturity — from carrying the plan in your head to work-centre optimisation, with a clear picture of what it takes to move up the ladder
• ✓ Why whiteboards, spreadsheets, and basic ERP all hit a ceiling — and the operating principles (Theory of Constraints, information flow) that replace them
• ✓ Two case studies — SQP Engineering (precision machine shop) and Angelo Petkovic Cabinets (custom cabinet maker): what changed, and what the results looked like