{"id":110,"date":"2020-09-08T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T03:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planningplus.com.au\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:58:46","slug":"planning-plus-helps-us-to-achieve-our-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planningplus.com.au\/blog\/2020\/09\/08\/planning-plus-helps-us-to-achieve-our-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Plus Helps Us To Achieve Our Goals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dale is the Production Manager at Mainline, and&nbsp;he&nbsp;utilizes&nbsp;one of their fully mobile&nbsp;office&nbsp;carts. These carts are running the computer, dual&nbsp;monitors&nbsp;and a printer. They are battery operated with a power convertor.&nbsp;Gavin spent some time with Dale to&nbsp;talk about his role and the benefit of these carts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mainline Autobody Production Manager Talks Planning Plus Software\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FBe6j1pg6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is your role with Planning Plus, and what difference has it made to you as a Production Manager?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Planning Plus is a vital key ingredient of what I&nbsp;do.&nbsp;I basically plan every single box that you see from the parts tab down.&nbsp; So&nbsp;basically,&nbsp;from here down, that&#8217;s all me using our twenty&nbsp;twenty lists&nbsp;to see when the vehicles coming in, what the part status&nbsp;is and when&nbsp;I&#8217;m going to plan it. And then dropping the boxes from the body, paint, reassembly to the detail, to the quality check.&nbsp; As we have discussed before, I do not know any other way. I have come from the service industry and we had something similar, but nothing as key as this, this thing is just the cat&#8217;s Meow when it comes to letting everybody in the house, know what&#8217;s going on so that I don&#8217;t have to over communicate. It used to be that my phone was ringing probably every minute on questions and now with the way this system&#8217;s designed with our flags in place, and the way that we can enter the notes into the system, everybody in the house knows where the answer&nbsp;is&nbsp;before they call me.&nbsp; A lot&nbsp;of times,&nbsp;they are&nbsp;just calling me to verify rather than to ask me&nbsp;what the status of the vehicle is,&nbsp;to&nbsp;make sure&nbsp;we are&nbsp;still on target.&nbsp;This system helps&nbsp;us&nbsp;to achieve&nbsp;our goals&nbsp;and to&nbsp;make sure&nbsp;we are&nbsp;planning&nbsp;accordingly&nbsp;and not trying to over schedule.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our introduction of the mobile cart it helps me&nbsp;by&nbsp;having CCC&nbsp;and Planning Plus running side by side at all times, my messaging systems&nbsp;is&nbsp;live at all times,&nbsp;and&nbsp;having the printer combination scanner so that I can attach all my post scans,&nbsp;my frame specs, my alignment specs, that comes in handy.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can do everything from this and what this enables me to do&nbsp;is&nbsp;to be at the car at the time.&nbsp;Like right here, I have supplement forms, so that we&nbsp;can&nbsp;add&nbsp;to the&nbsp;work order as in real time&nbsp;and Planning&nbsp;Plus is real time.&nbsp; Having a mobile&nbsp;cart,&nbsp;I&nbsp;could be at the vehicle and change everything&nbsp;in&nbsp;real time,&nbsp;then as I am rolling&nbsp;around,&nbsp;I&nbsp;can see the status&nbsp;on a vehicle. If&nbsp;they are&nbsp;going to need more time&nbsp;or&nbsp;if&nbsp;they are&nbsp;going to finish sooner.&nbsp;I can plan accordingly.&nbsp;In my view, I always have five days up at a time, I was already planning next week here earlier.&nbsp;My role is just continuous, just making sure that in conjunction with the planning board, that our floor itself is keeping and maintaining our status.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>If we talk efficiency, what do you feel as being the efficiency improvements since Planning Plus was introduced?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has&nbsp;increased tremendously. Now, granted, if you look at some of our overall numbers,&nbsp;we have&nbsp;added a lot of bodies in the interim, so sometimes our overall efficiency isn&#8217;t where it used to be as far as being monitored, but as far as the board itself and the knowing what the people are capable of doing and when they&nbsp;are&nbsp;finished, it was a dramatic increase. I&nbsp;mean, you&nbsp;can notice just by instantly dropping the boxes and then noticing how fast they were finishing what I have already allocated, knowing that&nbsp;it has&nbsp;already been catered towards that tech.&nbsp;&nbsp;So,&nbsp;for instance, if I had a tech&nbsp;that is&nbsp;a 200%, or when I dropped those boxes for him, it already catered to him to finish at a certain time&nbsp;that&nbsp;is going to match his efficiency so that the&nbsp;if&nbsp;CCC one said it was 20 hours with the body. And I dropped it over here for a 200% tech and it said it was 10 hours and he finished it&nbsp;in 8,&nbsp;&nbsp;that even&nbsp;shows me&nbsp;even more that we&#8217;re knocking it out of the park as far as efficiency. And this is a gauge for them to say, Hey, I want&nbsp;to&nbsp;finish it sooner than the 10 hours you gave me, even though they probably could have looked at their ROI and saw they had more time.&nbsp;They watch the board rather than watching the papers&nbsp;and&nbsp;that is&nbsp;a bonus all around.&nbsp;Planning Plus&nbsp;improves the communication, improves&nbsp;the efficiency&nbsp;you have&nbsp;got, as I can see,&nbsp;there is&nbsp;a message there&nbsp;that&#8217;s&nbsp;come from Curtis and that&#8217;s through the internal messenger system.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;you&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>are&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>run<\/strong><strong>ning<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;CCC parallel&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>with P<\/strong><strong>lanning&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>P<\/strong><strong>lus&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>there&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>on the mobile cart.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>That is<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;a pretty cool setup<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;for a Production Ma<\/strong><strong>nager?<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great set up. And&nbsp;I am&nbsp;kind of putting more things on it as time goes on, you can see, I have my dispatch stamp, my revised stamp on the backside. You can see as&nbsp;I am&nbsp;doing my final inspections,&nbsp;I am&nbsp;pulling these off the windshield so that I&nbsp;kind of&nbsp;just made it to where everything I need is from here.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am&nbsp;not having to run back and forth from the office. Everything is using our Toyota way as far as putting a magnet on here so that they can just attach to the side, just trying to come up with ways that everything I need&nbsp;is here&nbsp;when I need&nbsp;it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale is the Production Manager at Mainline, and&nbsp;he&nbsp;utilizes&nbsp;one of their fully mobile&nbsp;office&nbsp;carts. These carts are running the computer, dual&nbsp;monitors&nbsp;and a printer. 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