Forcast^TM performance management software delivers clarity to your daily production tasks. It allows you to react precisely to internal and external forces to stay on schedule and retain the profit in every job. It’s the power of real-time data and real-world reporting tools to help you maximize performance throughout your operation. 

Production Scheduling
Behind the powerful Forcast database are tools that accommodate long-term, high-level and short-term, detailed piece scheduling; projected and planned downtime; and reservations. The efficient graphic presentation of your data allows your production schedulers to see the pieces and beds they are scheduling and better understand and manage them throughout the production process. They can easily identify pieces yet to be scheduled, sorted by relevant information such as erection dates and strand patterns. Engineers can produce drawings in the order pieces are scheduled for production; production managers can produce pieces in the order they are to be erected; and transportation can deliver produced pieces when they are needed for erection. And everyone is armed with data to integrate their activities and avoid costly delays or interruptions. 
  
Production Prediction and Standard Operating Procedures
To optimize labor and support lean initiatives, Forcast^TM helps you predict start and stop times for individual activities and the production day – as defined by your activity, calculation formulas, crew size assumptions and scheduled production details. And you can associate relevant user-defined formulas to labor activities to make better direct labor and clock-time predictions. You’ll be equipped to better understand:

	where bottlenecks and wasted activities occur, their impact and how to reduce or eliminate those activities;
	the effect different crew sizes have on various labor activities and reduce direct labor and/or clock time; and
	how to optimize resources by improving production process throughput, reducing process costs and improving plant and labor utilization.

With Forcast^TM, you can manage during the process rather than after the job is completed, and your organization can learn to generate more predictable results over time.