When picking a manufacturing scheduling system you will have to pick between thick and thin clients. Picking thin client can save you lots of money and headache. A lot of software today is thin client. Manufacturing scheduling systems benefit greatly from thin client technology.

Thin client means that a software is designed to use little computer resources. The software is ran from a browser which is often compatible between different browsers and operating systems. Thin client software is ran and processed on a server. The better the server the better performance you will get from thin client software. Typically computers on the floor do not have a lot of processing power because all of the processing is done

Thick client software requires enough processing power on each individual computer. This can require a lot of money and maintenance time. More and more factories are using thin client software because of the savings potential. Thin client also allows flexibility when updating a computer. Because thin client does little to no processing on the actually computer, compatibility isn't a big issue.