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KipwarePLN® Scheduling Software

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Why KipwarePLN® for Scheduling?

In today's market, with everyone and every customer, it's just in time and on-time. As if quoting and winning work wasn't hard enough, today's economy requires that after you've won the work, they want it when ? The market is not only cost driven but quality and delivery driven as well. Kentech's Kipware® series of machine shop business software is designed to keep you competitive in today's and KipwarePLN® is an integral part of that package. KipwarePLN® puts the power to plan and schedule your company, your people, your deliveries, your whatever .... in one easy-to-use software package built to eliminate the clutter and complexity that makes for long learning curves and slow or no return on investment.
KipwarePLN® can provide your shop with the following :

  • Accurate delivery and completion dates for tasks or people based on the actual hours worked and efficiency factors.
  • Complete and Accurate hours required and charges ... including regular, overtime and provisional hours for each day of the week ... for tasks or people scheduled.
  • The ability to easily and quickly track and report completion dates for individual items or multiple items ... such as assemblies.
  • A comprehensive look at available and non-available time slots for tasks, items or people being scheduled.
  • Manage all your schedules ... rename, delete, copy, move ... using an easy-to-use user interface.
  • Quickly and easily print a variety of reports that can cover a variety of requirements.

KipwarePLN®'s Features

  • User Defined Interface- Create labels and captions in the KipwarePLN®specific to your schduling. You can set-up KipwarePLN® to schedule tasks, equipment, employees whatever is involved in your process.
  • Database Driven- Create an unlimited number of database files using simple fill in the blank form. Kipware then uses the information in these databases to calculate the schedule data. Databases can be added or edited at any time. The labor database include:
    • Regular and Overtime hours worked for each day of the week.
    • Labor Rate charged for regular and overtime hours worked.
    • Start and End time for each day of the week.
    • Meal Time length and time.
    • Efficiency Rating- easily calculated using our fill-in-the-blank Efficiency Calculator.
  • Auto Calculations- Input what to schedule, start date, quantity and time required and the COMPLETION DATE is automatically calculated using the database files. A complete breakdown of regular and overtime hours and all the costs involved are calculated for each day of the week.
  • Manual Calculations- Input what to schedule,start date and the desired completion date. Regular and overtime hours required along with the costs breakdown are calculated based on the database files.
  • Organizing and Reporting- All the calculated data is displayed in a simple spreadsheet format on the screen for the user to review and print. Other formatted and non-formatted report printing options are available.
  • Auto-Check Feature- As each schedule is created START and END date conflicts with existing schedules generate an error screen with pertinent conflict data.
  • One Year Planner- Using previously created schedules, available and unavailable hours are diplayed in a tabbed format for a year.
  • LINK Feature-Organize individual schedules that may be related into an assembly file and view the due dates on one complete, easy-to-use view screen .

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