Late drawings, long-lead parts and a witnessed FAT date, planned as one build.
Machine builders live with change. Each order is configured from options, so the routing and the bill of materials are written per machine. Drawings arrive after the build slot is booked. A gearbox or a drive has a lead time of months. Fitters, electricians and test engineers are few, and the customer has a date in the diary to witness acceptance. Orvixo holds the routing, the parts list, the skills and the promised dates in one model and re-plans the build when any of them move.
What makes machinery hard to plan
Every machine is configured
An order is built from options, so each machine has its own bill of materials and its own routing. There is no standard sequence to fall back on, and the plan for one build tells you little about the next.
Drawings change after the build starts
Engineering releases late, and change notes arrive with the frame already welded. A change rewrites operations mid-routing and can send finished work back for rework. The published schedule is out of date before it reaches the bay.
Bought-out parts have lead times in months
Drives, gearboxes, servo motors, castings and PLCs come from suppliers with their own order books. One part arriving late stalls a whole machine, and in many shops the shortage list is the real schedule.
Skills, not headcount, set the pace
Mechanical fitters, electricians, controls engineers and test engineers are few and not interchangeable. A machine waits for the one person who can wire it, not for a bay to come free.
Bays and test space are finite
A build occupies a bay for weeks, and a test bay for days once the machine is powered. Two builds that are both on time can still compete for the same floor.
Acceptance is a date in the customer’s diary
The customer travels to witness the factory acceptance test, and a milestone payment hangs on it. Miss it and the machine sits unpaid while the next build waits for its bay.
How Orvixo plans it
One routing per machine
Each order’s configured bill of materials and routing are the plan, with sub-assemblies, wiring and test as operations in the model. Change the configuration and the plan changes with it.
Change notes re-plan only what they touch
When a change note lands, the affected operations re-solve and the rest of the build is held. Rework goes back to the bay and the people who know the machine.
Bought-out parts on the critical path
Supplier promise dates are constraints. No operation is planned before its parts are on site, and a late gearbox names the machine and the acceptance date it puts at risk.
Skills as a resource
Fitters, electricians and test engineers are in the model with their qualifications and rosters. Work is placed where the right person will be, and the scarcest specialist is never double-booked.
Bays and test as capacity
Assembly bays and test space are resources with calendars. The plan shows which build takes which bay and when each machine can be powered, weeks before the floor runs out.
Re-plan with the reasoning written down
Every move is explained: which change note, which part, which person. Your planners review and publish, or let Orvixo publish within your rules. The project manager has the answer before the customer asks.
The ones your best planner already knows.
Written in plain language by your team, compiled by Orvixo into constraints the plan must respect. These are the ones we see in most machine builders.
See it on your lines.
Talk us through how your plant plans today. We will show you where Orvixo would change it.