Production Schedule Adherence

The share of scheduled production completed as planned, in the planned sequence and quantity.

Poor adherence breaks material plans, creates unplanned changeovers and quietly destroys promised customer dates.

1,850 of 2,000 scheduled units built to plan gives 92.5% adherence.

Below 90% usually points to material shortages, unrealistic capacity assumptions or frequent expedites.

Freeze the near-term schedule, verify material availability before release, and track and remove the top reasons for deviation.

Counting total output rather than output that matched the schedule, which rewards building the easy orders.