TLE.market callers have the experience and knowledge to qualify key issues with executives in areas of shop floor control and manufacturing execution.  This type of expertise is used to help us ask the right questions of a busy exec and avoid irrelevant questions that may lead them to hang up.  

Below are just a few of the high level & granular topics we can discuss:

Examples of High Level Issues
• Six Sigma/ Quality - lowering defect and rework cost
• Implementing Poke-Yoke (mistake proofing)
• Lean Manufacturing - lowering labor and scrap costs
• Government compliance (FDA, DoD, FDA...) 

Examples of Granular Knowledge
Resources - Planning
• Planners needing flexibility on what they a manufacturing resource 
• Planning based on the projected capacity & available resources
• Resources allocated based on appropriate certification/ training
• Planners may want to assign any resource to any location
• Tracking of resource up-time/ down-time data with dispositions
• Tool planning for allocation to resources
• Applying pertinent resources to a operational steps by 

Manufacturing - Planning
• Creation of primary & alternate routings
• Setting up of work instructions and sequence enforcement
• Synchronization of a BOM with a PLM or ERP system
• Shopfloor configuration set up for routing optimization
• Configuration of rework steps
• Allowing planners to teps need to be added in the fly
• Managers need alerts when there is a problem or delay
• Labor may need to be split against multiple work orders
• Sign-offs by a manager for resources to move to the next step

Manufacturing - WIP
• Visibility of work order statuses
• Capturing of lot and/ or serial numbers
• Management may need advanced alerts to material shortages
• Material many need to be allocated by batch/ serial number
• Creation of an "as-built" configuration with change tracking
• Managers will need to track batch records through WIP
• Senior mangement may want visibility to ETC & EAC

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