Scheduling, downtime and quote profitability in metal and machinery.
In the shop, capacity is handed out in conversation rather than on paper. Job order is renegotiated every morning, delivery dates are promised from experience, and where the margin went is understood after the job is closed. Miletus makes those three decisions measurable.
Which job runs on which machine, and when, is renegotiated every morning.
Machine stoppages are not logged, so how much capacity is lost stays unknown.
Quotes are priced from past jobs and experience; the real cost surfaces only after the job closes.
Delivery dates are promised without counting the load already on the floor.
Die, fixture and tool changeover times sit outside the plan entirely.
Job order shifts toward whoever calls loudest. Why a machine stopped is known only as far as the supervisor remembers. A quote is set by looking at what a similar job was priced at.
Job order is computed against machine capacity and due-date constraints. Every stoppage is logged with a coded reason, so repeat causes separate out. Quotes are built from operation times and real cost lines, so margin is visible at quoting time.
A synthetic example: work orders and their routings are pulled into one list. From a screen at the machine, the operator starts a job, finishes it, and picks a downtime reason from a list. The scheduler takes machine capacity and due dates as constraints and produces the job order. The quoting screen uses the same operation times, so the price offered rests on the same data as the shop's real load.
Work orders and operation routings.
The machine list and capacity per machine.
Historical quotes and order records.
Scrap and rework records.
Miletus is based in İstanbul. We travel to shops in Tuzla, Dilovası, Gebze and İkitelli for the site walk. The diagnostic call is remote, and you can join it from anywhere in Türkiye.
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