Produktionsengpässe durch manuelle Reihenfolgeplanung

Definition

Australian office and commercial furniture manufacturers typically run integrated workshops with panel saws, CNC routers, edgebanders and assembly lines where the same equipment serves multiple product lines and custom orders.[2][3][6] In make‑to‑order environments with many colour, size and hardware options, poor scheduling of panel and component manufacturing leads to excessive changeovers, small production batches and unbalanced work centres. Industry case studies on reshoring furniture component production to Australia show that automating welding and component fabrication significantly increased throughput and reduced manual handling, precisely because production could be better sequenced and the robot kept continuously loaded.[5] By analogy, similar throughput losses occur where panel machining is still sequenced manually. Logic benchmarking from discrete manufacturing suggests that sub‑optimal schedules commonly waste 5–10 % of theoretical capacity in changeovers and idle time, which for a medium plant producing AUD 1–2 million of output per month equates to AUD 50.000–200.000 in lost sales capacity or additional overtime that would otherwise not be needed.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Office furniture manufacturers in Australia 🇦🇺 waste schätzungsweise 5–10 % ihrer monatlichen Fertigungskapazität (oft AUD 50.000–150.000 Produktionswert pro Werk) durch manuelle Panel- und Komponentenplanung. Automatisierte Feinplanung der Maschinensequenzen (CNC, Säge, Kante, Bohrzentrum) reduziert Rüstzeiten und Auslastungslücken und erhöht den Durchsatz ohne zusätzliche Schichtkosten.

Affected Stakeholders

Produktionsleiter, Werksleiter, Arbeitsvorbereitung / Scheduler, CNC-Operatoren, Schichtleiter, Vertriebsleiter (wegen Lieferterminzusagen)

Related Business Risks