Production Planning & Scheduling

Możliwości rozwiązania

• Advanced Constraint Modeling

  Model advanced resource constraints, such as rules about concurrent usage and advanced inter-operational constraints, including limits on intermittent time, operations, and how operation times can be extended in medical device manufacturing.

• Advanced Material Handling

  Implement custom rules regarding how materials are consumed to ensure that sub-assemblies and raw materials are consumed according to business rules at your medical device organization.

• Advanced Schedule Optimization

  Define schedule optimization rules to manage problems such as minimizing changeover times, preferred sequencing, and campaigning.  Composite rules can be built with our exclusive solutions workflow tools for medical devices.

• Assembly Process Visualization

  Visualize the device assembly process from raw materials through to finished goods and sales orders by showing a graphical view of material dependencies as well as plots of stock levels over a period time.

• BOM Level Planning

  Plan your medical device Bill of Materials such that it can be exploded so the production plan for lower level items is calculated in the same way. Based on this plan, proposed material purchase requirements can be easily exported to any system.

• Development Environment

  Alter database schema and constraint models as required, including adding tables and fields. Create custom scheduling rules to solve specific scheduling problems and data manipulation tools for use with the medical device workflow engine.

• Interactive Schedule Viewing (Ultimate Viewer)

  Track the progress of sales and carry-out order inquiries against a read-only copy of the published schedule.  With this view-only capability, med-tech company management can compare actual times with scheduled completion times to assess performance of the overall production process.

• Interactive Schedule Visualization

  Display data as stock profile and capacity usage graphs which can be easily modified so the production of a particular item can be moved from one planning period to another. Any changes will be accurately reflected in all linked plot and grid windows.

• Make-To-Order Planning

  Evaluate the effects of future demand changes on the manufacturing process in a make-to-order environment even when stock levels will not be part of the key parameters.  When a change in demand occurs, your device manufacturing team can quickly assess if it is possible to meet the new requirements.

• Make-to-Stock Planning

  In a make-to-stock environment, you can generate accurate and achievable master production schedules (MPS) considering rough cut capacity, pack forward figures, target days of stock cover, manufacturing preferences, minimum and maximum re-order quantities, re-order multiples and product shelf life. Production capacity can be specified as a quantity, duration or weight. By using the Preactor calendar system capacity, production capacity can be varied over time. The capacity available then limits the production volume created in each period.

• Operations & Detailed Scheduling

  Implement closed loop scheduling between production planning and manufacturing.  Detailed scheduling based on business rules at the work order level and real-time information regarding machine status and capabilities will give your med-tech organization a significant advantage.

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• Order Based Multi-Constraint Scheduling

  Create order based schedules and apply a ranking in order to prioritize orders.  Create schedules taking in to account different operation run speeds on varying resources, material availability, sequence dependent changeover times, and slack between operations.