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Proven DBR Software – DBR+™

DBR+™ is a powerful tool to bring the methodology into real-time reality. Web-based demonstrations are easy to schedule and take about 1 hour. If you are located outside of the United States, contact us to find an Authorized Service Provider in your area.

Through proprietary design, DBR+™ allows users to easily MODEL, SCHEDULE and then easily EXECUTE through a real-time, user friendly web-based format. Additionally, reporting formats easily facilitate multiple types of CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT activities.

Model with DBR+™
Schedule with DBR+™
Execute with DBR+™
Continuous Improvement with DBR+™
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What Customers Say About DBR+™

Model

The manufacturing environment is defined and mapped into DBR+™. Users can either create the model in DBR+™ or import all manufacturing data from an existing database. Modeling features include:

Ability to define multiple constraints
Dynamic rope length calculations based on quantity AND transfer batch size.
Ability to define constraint buffer and shipping buffer times at a product family level
Easy to build, import and manage routings regardless of number of constraint passes
Define calendars per shift and resource
Define resources including operator capacity

Schedule Back to Top	The Master Scheduler prepares a finite schedule for all constraints based on order due date, constraint capacities, all buffers and varying rope lengths for product families Powerful “what if” scenarios can be built that include alternate resource definitions, order compaction features and differing priority code Work orders are released

Execute Production personnel interact with DBR+™ through the web-based execution side. Personnel can: View dispatch lists for all resources View status of all buffers and corresponding work order priority Report work order progress View temporary overloads in non-constraints Drill down on all work orders to get full order information Make notations visible to all users Back to Top

Continuously Improve Back to Top	The analytics portion of DBR+™ allows management to keep the improvements coming Management can easily identify areas, that if improved, will translate directly to the stability and throughput potential of system This type of capability helps direct and maximize the effectiveness of Lean-Six Sigma activities and capital investments

What Customers Say About DBR+™ ”The most significant improvement for the Steel Group that DBR+™ has given us is total visibility of our facility from one end to the other end. And its visibility is not just limited to a few select individuals, but every employee in the Steel Group. We now manage from a proactive style rather than a reactive style due to the increased visibility. Recently, we had one area go down for three days, but the visibility provided by DBR+™ allowed us to effectively manage our resources, and recover very rapidly. DBR+™, we would have just sunk in the quagmire of stacked product and confusion.” Dave Blazek, VP & GM Steel Group, LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. “It has brought us an electronic way to manage and execute DBR. It gives us the ability to see exactly what’s going on in all facets of the schedule and shop floor for anyone with the Web access. We have reduced our WIP, increased our on time delivery throughout the company, and have a very proactive way to see disruptions before they hurt us. It gives us an improved way to prioritize what to work on when and where to utilize our under-loaded resources. We look forward to doing more process improvement as a result of the reason code analysis capabilities.” Todd Colyer, Materials Manager Romac Industries “It’s amazing how well this system works. The chaos and firefighting have settled down, we’ve found new capacity, Jason and I are caught up and looking for things to do.” David Arnold, Production Manager Royal Plastic Mfg., Inc “Last year, I did not believe that there was such a thing as hidden capacity. My perspective was that we were very good at what we did. We always were getting incrementally better and there was no room for significant improvement without additional resources. In general, due to the implementation of DBR+™, we have been able to increase throughput and pass a large amount of work through the shop to satisfy past due needs of our customers. We also have found room to take all new jobs that show up. Rather than react to each customers’ urgent need for the week, we are able to take a look at monthly needs, adjust resources and execute a plan.” John Bressoud, Vice President Turbocam Back to Top

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