nMetric's 4C Provides Priority Scheduling of Shop Floor; Establishes Priorities Among Production/Customer Orders.Business Editors COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2002 nMetric(TM) today announced that mid-sized manufacturers can now schedule their shop floors by prioritizing their production and/or customer orders. To avoid facing incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. overtime charges, having to expedite production or engage in other firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. modes to assure priority orders are manufactured on time, the 4C(TM) algorithm knows the priority of an order and takes advantage of the resources it needs when they are available. It will move other production orders to accommodate priority orders and reschedule re·sched·ule tr.v. re·sched·uled, re·sched·ul·ing, re·sched·ules To schedule again or anew: rescheduled the meeting for the following week; rescheduled the debts of many developing nations. them. With such real-time priority production scheduling, monitoring and tracking, users enjoy faster paybacks and increased returns-on-investment. "Most scheduling systems have been disappointments," emphasizes Tom Carpenter, nMetric CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "These standalone systems absorb massive amounts of data yet produce schedules which have no relationship nor relevance to what is happening on the shop floor. That is simply unacceptable in today's world of Internet-based supply chain collaboration, where inventories are purposely kept low and the ability to build to order on time is paramount." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Carpenter, some manufacturers may want to prioritize those orders coming from their biggest customer. Others may want to prioritize those with the largest revenue margins. With the 4C suite, a company can establish its own rules for priority scheduling (operating system) priority scheduling - Processes scheduling in which the scheduler selects tasks to run based on their priority as opposed to, say, a simple round-robin. Priorities may be static or dynamic. according to their business needs. "When and if resources or demands change, 4C attempts to resolve any problems that could affect priority delivery dates and/or proactively notifies all specified partners so they are aware and can plan accordingly," Carpenter emphasizes. "If there are prospective large shifts in plans or resources, users can proactively use 4C to manually determine the impact of various "what-ifs" on priority order dates in the manufacturing queue. They can anticipate the effects of each change before making them." About nMetric nMetric's 4C system is the only software that provides mid-sized and smaller manufacturers with live scheduling, monitoring and tracking, messaging updates and analyses so that they can completely oversee all steps of their manufacturing process and proactively supervise the dynamics of their supply chain in real time to accurately predict what will happen. Company headquarters are at 3070 South Bristol South Bristol is the name of the following places in the United States of America:
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