Production Planning & Scheduling for Energy & Utilities

Solution capabilities

• Advanced Constraint Modeling

  Model advanced resource constraints and advanced inter-operation constraints, including limits on the time between operations and if they can be extended.

• Advanced Material Handling

  Implement customer specific rules to account for how materials are to be consumed.

• Advanced Schedule Optimization

  Define additional schedule optimization rules to minimize changeover times, account for preferred sequencing, and campaigning.  Composite rules can also be built with the workflow tool.

• Assembly Process Visualization

  Visualize the production process from raw materials through to finished goods and sales orders.  Visualize material dependencies and identify where shortages will occur.

• BOM Level Planning

  Calculate proposed purchase requirements from asset planning BOMs and export to an ERP system, Excel, etc., for action as needed.

• Development Environment

  Access and alter the database schema as required to solve specific scheduling problems and create custom data manipulation tools for use with the workflow engine.

• Interactive Schedule Viewing

  View, search, and interact with schedules to track progress of orders, assess production performance, and provide up to the minute work-to-do lists.

• Interactive Schedule Visualization

  Display the Master Production Schedule as stock and capacity graphs. Easily edit it and visualize the changes reflected in linked plots and grids.

• Make-To-Order Planning

  Evaluate effects of future demand changes and quickly assess if it is possible to meet any new requirements of facility or field operation.

• Make-to-Stock Planning

  Generate accurate and achievable master production schedules (MPS) and determine production capacity as a quantity, duration, or weight for facility and field operations.

• Operations & Detailed Scheduling

  Implement closed-loop scheduling between the production planning and MES systems with detailed scheduling based on business rules and on real-time information about equipment status and capabilities.

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• Order Based Multi-Constraint Scheduling

  Create order based schedules and apply rankings or weightings to prioritize the orders. Base schedules on availability of resources, additional constraints, and the materials required.