Your line in 30 seconds
Set your stations and speeds, then watch push and paced run side by side.
Push and paced, side by side
Same stations, same speeds, same ups and downs. Only the release rule differs. Set up your line
Opened from a shared link.
Model output
Push
Release whenever the first station is free
- Work in process
- 0 units
- Lead time
- — hours
- Shipped
- 0 units
Paced
Release at the pacemaker’s pace, buffer only in front of it
- Work in process
- 0 units
- Lead time
- — hours
- Shipped
- 0 units
Work released without a kit check waits for missing parts, expedited orders add changeovers, and crowded floors slow handling.
The link reopens this line as set. Nothing is sent to us.
What is an hour at your pacemaker worth?
Two numbers of your own, in dollars. They stay on this page unless you add them to the link.
Enter both numbers to see the arithmetic.
Your line
Set the number of stations and how many units an hour each one makes. Give them names if you like, then run it.
Pacemaker: the slowest step.
Paced at a faster station, work piles up at the slowest one.