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Capacity planning

Capacity planning for factory work centres and shifts

See the load on every work centre and move orders before bottlenecks form, with routings, shift hours and tablet updates in MG Factory.

Work centre load versus capacity Routing hours and shift schedules Move orders before bottlenecks form Progress tracked from shop tablets

Essential

Capacity planning

Planned orders

18

Work centres

6

Load this week

84%

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Why unmeasured work centre load causes factory bottlenecks

Whiteboard planning and blind dates

Today Production is scheduled on whiteboards or memory, so sales teams commit to delivery dates without knowing whether work centres have open hours.

With MG Factory Sales and production orders show required routing hours against work centre shifts, so delivery dates reflect actual available capacity.

One machine overloaded while others idle

Today Jobs pile up at cutting or welding while assembly stands waiting, creating delays on the floor and overtime costs at bottleneck stations.

With MG Factory See the load on every work centre across the week and reassign operations or move orders to alternative dates before queues develop.

Rush orders disrupting the entire plan

Today An urgent customer order is inserted into production by verbal instruction, pushing existing batches back without anyone seeing what gets delayed.

With MG Factory Planners adjust order dates directly on the schedule, seeing which batches move and updating delivery commitments with clear visibility.

Delays discovered after shifts finish

Today Managers only hear about machine downtime or slow batch output at the end of the day when promised shipments have already been missed.

With MG Factory Operators start, pause and finish jobs on work centre tablets, giving supervisors visible batch progress throughout the working day.

What you get

What you get in MG Factory capacity planning

Work centre load view

See the load on every work centre and move orders before bottlenecks form, comparing planned operation hours with shift capacity.

Multi-level BOM and routings

Products, sub-assemblies and by-products with quantities, scrap and routings that allocate planned operation times to each station.

MRP production suggestions

Sales orders and minimum stock turn into proposed production and purchase orders that show up on your schedule for forward planning.

Material availability checks

Know what raw materials and components are missing for each production order and raise supplier purchase orders from the same screen.

Work centre tablets

Operators start, pause and finish work orders on a tablet at each work centre, keeping shop-floor progress up to date on the plan.

Batch costing

Planned against actual cost for every production order, with materials, labour and machine time rolled up into the real cost of each batch.

How it works

How capacity planning balances your factory floor

  1. 1

    Set up work centres and shifts

    Define operating hours, shifts and default routings for each work centre, establishing available daily hours across your manufacturing lines.

  2. 2

    Schedule orders against capacity

    Turn confirmed sales orders and MRP suggestions into production orders with operations that map required run times onto work centre calendars.

  3. 3

    Rebalance overloaded stations

    Identify overloaded days before work begins, then move operations or reschedule orders across work centres and dates to smooth the load.

  4. 4

    Track progress from the shop floor

    Operators record operation times on work centre tablets, logging completed quantities and scrap while updating schedule status for the team.

Available in

Included from the Essential package.

FAQ

Questions we hear most

Can you migrate our bills of materials and work centre lists from Excel?

Yes. Migrating your bills of materials, work centres, products, suppliers and opening inventory is part of setup, reviewed before go-live.

How does MG Factory help us avoid bottlenecks before they happen?

The schedule displays operation hours from order routings against each work centre's shift hours, so planners see overloaded days and move orders to open slots.

Is capacity planning available in Arabic and English?

Yes. Work centre schedules, production orders, tablet screens and reports run in Arabic and English with right-to-left layout for each user.

How is MG Factory priced, and do we pay per user?

There are no per-user fees. In Kuwait, Essential is KWD 45 per month per system with a one-time KWD 100 setup and 3 free support hours.

Who owns our production data, and where does it run?

You own your data. Export to Excel or CSV from every list at any time, and choose to run on the regional cloud or your own server.

Ready to balance capacity in your factory?

Book a free 45-minute demo prepared around your manufacturing work centres, routings, shift calendars and products.

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