WebTRIM eXpress is built upon traditional, and time proven methods of scheduling. We have no intention of changing the way you do scheduling. Our aim is to make your production and booking management as simple and time saving as possible.
The application uses a ‘planning board’ style approach to scheduling. Each employee can be defined as to their start and end time for each day, as well as their individual efficiency. Employees are listed one under another, and grouped into departments. A timeline shows the available attended time for each employee, and blocks out any time unavailable, due to absenteeism.
 The best part is that there is no data entry. When a job is changed from a Quote to a Job in your quoting package, it will automatically appear in WebTRIM eXpress. Our approach to interfacing means that when a job appears in WebTRIM, it is automatically dissected into the real shop floor processes. You have control over how this is done, ie if you want to split quoted paint times into Prime, Prep, Application, Denib and Polish – you can, with ease!
Once a job appears in WebTRIM eXpress, the process of allocation could not be simpler. You select the real shop floor process (eg. Strip Out), and drop it onto the timeline for an employee – and that’s it. The application uses the pre-defined efficiencies per employee, and automatically adjusts the time it will take to complete the task. You can also split the task, so that it can be worked on by multiple employees, specify the ‘real time’ that you expect the task to take, or use the handy ‘shrink to fit’ feature to squeeze the task into any sized gap.
Depending on your circumstance, you may only allocate work for the following day, or might choose to allocate weeks in advance – this is entirely up to you.
Conveying the allocations to the workers is easy. You can print a schedule and hand it to each employee as the day starts, or if you prefer – we provide a special monitoring screen for the workshop. This screen immediately reflects any changes to the schedule directly on the shop floor.
By using the planning board approach, we have not only adopted a time proven method of planning, but also provide a seamless transition for clients using existing paper- based systems.
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