Production scheduling for electronics assembly

The pain

One missing component stops a build — and in high-mix electronics, something is always short. Meanwhile every product change means a feeder swap, a stencil change, or a reflow-profile setup, so the line bleeds time between jobs. Standard Business Central will happily schedule a board you can’t populate, and the shortage only surfaces when the line stops.

How Pacer Production Scheduler helps

• The material-availability floor won’t schedule a build before its parts land — no work order for a board whose components aren’t in yet.
• Sequence-dependent setup times model real changeovers — feeder and reel swaps, stencil changes, reflow-profile setups — and order jobs to minimize total setup across the shift.
• Material pegging ties each reel and sub-assembly to the builds that need it, so you see coverage, not guesses.
• Traffic-light readiness shows at a glance which builds are Green, Yellow, or Red before you commit the line.

The payoff

Fewer line stoppages waiting on parts, less time lost to changeovers on high-mix runs, and promise dates you can actually hold — because the schedule already knows what’s buildable today.