WHY nMetric?

How It’s Different

Complex, high-mix manufacturing environments are, by their nature, chaotic. nMetric embraces this constant change and the need for a real-time, dynamic scheduling. Additionally, by using utilizing resources attributes to schedule tasks makes the scheduling adjustments in response to change either automatic or easily accomplished manually. The following are the fundamental differences between the nMetric solution and other similar software offerings.

What Others Do:

What nMetric Does:

Provides snapshots of current and ideal future activity at various times

Dynamically replicates the reality and change of high-mix environments for real-time virtual visibility, proactive intervention and quick response

Assigns tasks to individual resources

Dynamically replicates the reality and change of high-mix environments for real-time virtual visibility, proactive intervention and quick response

Provides power-user schedule visibility

Provides the entire organization with schedule visibility

  • Role-based access to functionality
  • Universal view-only access

Tracks task completion

Provides real-time/near real-time updates including:

  • Task status update (starts, partial and full completion)
  • Notes
  • Change in resource availability (downtime or overtime)
  • Dynamically reschedules tasks and changes occur

Sequences queues to resources

Automatically recalculates scheduled resource demand in real time, resulting in immediate visibility of the impact on:

  • Other tasks in the production routing
  • Potential late order completions
  • Resource over-utilization

Allows manual drag-and-drop schedule management, adjusting the schedule to maintain dependent task scheduling requirements immediately

Uses algorithms to attempt optimization using fixed criteria

Uses probability and heuristics to balance multiple criteria and priorities to manage the entire environment for on-time Smart Job completion

Third-party alert generation

Real-time, system-wide, event-based alerts and email notifications

Captive ERP add-on modules

Real-time bilateral integration with any ERP, legacy system or database