Operations Assistant: A Decision-Making Tool for the Factory (NOT PUBLISHED)

The Operations Assistant (OA) is an on-line, interactive environment designed to help the user with the management of a manufacturing facility. It provides information on the current state of the facility and products, along with projections of the future states of the facility and progress of products. It provides a friendly view of data and the necessary information to make decisions on a product entry sequence, work-in-process reduction schemes, labor/machine/shift assignments, machine maintenance schedules, and capacity/utilization issues.