Production Planning & Scheduling for Automotive

Production Planning & Scheduling

The smart factory of the future will connect people, systems, and machines through a digital thread from design, manufacturing and field support. Synchronization of production planning and scheduling is pivotal to maintain a digital thread within the enterprise. Siemens PLM Software Advanced Planning and Scheduling is a solution for constraint-based production planning and shop floor scheduling.

The smart factory of the future will connect people, systems, and machines through a digital thread from design, manufacturing and field support. Synchronization of production planning and scheduling is pivotal to maintain a digital thread within the enterprise. Siemens PLM Software Advanced Planning and Scheduling is a solution for constraint-based production planning and shop floor scheduling.

Production Planning & Scheduling

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Digitalization of the Manufacturing enterprise in the era of Industry 4.0

Today, Manufactures are challenged to react quickly to changing demands resulting in changing production volumes. Manufacturers cannot react quickly and intelligently to changes without planning & scheduling tools. The time it takes to generate a schedule using spreadsheets can take hours or even days and it can be difficult to maintain. If there is an unexpected change, it is not easy to generate a new schedule. While planning is typically mid to long term, it can be months or years ahead. A planning tool is essential to enhance competitiveness, increase profits and improve customer service.

Siemens PLM Software provides a suite of production planning and scheduling products for small, medium and large companies. Advanced Planning and Scheduling improves the synchronization of manufacturing processes and provides greater visibility to increase utilization and on-time delivery while reducing inventory levels and waste. This is a key component of the digital thread in the enterprise while digitalizing the entire manufacturing process to create the smart factory of the future.

Production Planning & Scheduling

Solution capabilities

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Advanced Constraint Modeling (Professional)

Model advanced resource constraints, such as rules about concurrent rule usage and inter-operation constraints including limits on time between operations

Advanced Material Handling

Implement custom rules about how materials are consumed to ensure that sub-assemblies and raw materials are consumed accordingly

Advanced Schedule Optimization (Professional)

Define additional schedule optimization rules to deal with problems such as minimizing changeover times, preferred sequencing and campaigning

Assembly Process Visualization (Professional)

Visualize the assembly process from raw materials through to finished goods and sales orders in a graphical view of dependencies

BOM Level Planning

Explode the Bill of Materials and the production plan for lower level items to export material purchase requirements to ERP

Development Environment (Ultimate)

Modify the database schema to constraint model and create custom scheduling rules solving scheduling problems and custom data manipulation tools

Interactive Schedule Viewing (Ultimate Viewer)

Read only viewer on schedules for the enterprise to view order progress, scheduled completion times to assess production performance

Interactive Schedule Visualization

Leveraging the Master Production Schedule (MPS), data can be displayed as stock profile graphs and capacity usage graphs

Make-To-Order Planning

Dynamically react in real time to changes in the manufacturing process by quickly evaluating the impact of new requirements