Label Traxx MIS automates scheduling with batched.io

According to Label Traxx, batched.io leverages data to create previously unrealized efficiencies that add to significant savings in time and money. Batched includes advanced reports providing insight into capacity planning, real-time order status, key business indicators, and more, increasing productivity across all business areas. 

‘It’s an impossible task for a human to consider all the variables necessary to produce on optimized production schedule in real-time, that balances customer requirements,’ said Label Traxx MIS president Ken Meinhardt. ‘Our collaboration with Batched gives our customers cutting-edge technology to generate an automated and optimized schedule.’

Most printers struggle to optimize the entire planning and scheduling process due to the number of variables that need to be juggled, according to Label Traxx. Changing lead times, machine and labor constraints, machine changeovers, and waste all need to be taken into consideration. With Batched, you establish a set of rules and priorities to tailor the program to your specific manufacturing environment. You customize your machine and labor availability, and Batched generates a real-time production schedule for each order and machine based on your priorities. Once the rules are established, generating the complete schedule is automated.

‘Batched unlocks the potential of label printing businesses by generating efficiency and additional capacity for physical assets and team members alike,’ added Spencer Keith, business development analyst at Amend, the consultancy behind Batched. ‘Customers can expect immediate material and time savings, increasing utilization and throughput while streamlining operational and communication processes. Batched integrates seamlessly with Label Traxx; you keep your systems while reaping the benefits of automation.’

According to Keith, one of the customers has seen its machine utilization increase by 13 percent, the material waste decrease by 20 percent, and lead time decrease by 11 percent. This had led to more than 95 percent improvement in on-time shipments, a three percent increase of the overall gross margin, and 10 percent increase in sales.

‘This all adds to big savings in time and money, not to mention, you and your scheduler can finally take a vacation,’ commented Keith.