Full-fledged planning and production scheduling
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) provides comprehensive preparation of production orders, aiming to find the optimal distribution of production operations.
The optimized production plan respects given constraints such as deadlines, connectin between operations, availability of resources, etc. If necessary, while searching for optimal plan, it is possible to simulate the availability of individual resources over time and monitor their impact on draft schedule. In this way, it is possible to identify bottlenecks or look for other possible optimizations at the level of work organization or material resources (availability of input components, semi-finished products, etc.).
In simulations, all values of production orders can be parameterized, such as required quantity, delivery date, available material resources, staff, order priority, etc., and thus give your employees a powerful tool, thanks to which they are able to prepare and manage production shift with maximum efficiency.
During compilation of schedule, algorithm takes into account current state of production and in cooperation with Maintenance Management module, the plan also includes planned downtimes or individual maintenance requirements. Thanks to this, the APS module works not only with data coming from the business layer (typically from ERP), but also with current and future capacities of the production itself. Generating the optimal schedule thus not only enables the preparation of shift, but also gives you the possibility of effective rescheduling of production even during the current shift.
Advantages of APS in MES PHARIS
- Visualization of the current work in progress in the new draft plan
- Visualization of optimized production schedule released to production
- Simulation of multiple variants and variant-based scheduling
- Fixation of Work Orders and constraints
- Visualization and preparation of reports of required resources (machines, tools, material, personnel)
- Leveraging of defined calendars and scheduled maintenance
- Optimal schedule based on the current state of work in progress
Overview of the production plan
The sequence of individual operations is clearly displayed using a GANTT chart with the possibility of user-defined display of continuity and details of the operation.
Creation of the production plan
The plan can be exported to a production plan for each workplace or production unit. Every level in the organisation is thus provided with an up-to-date and clearly optimised production plan.
Links of operations
The MES PHARIS production scheduler allows you to define the properties and conditions of the links of individual production operations.
These conditions include, for example, concurrent operations, starting the next operation after the previous operation has ended or starting after the minimum transport batch from the previous operation has been completed, required availability of materials, personnel, etc. Similar conditions can be defined in the case of a producer-consumer link.
Planning and scheduling strategies
Different planning and scheduling strategies can be used to draw up a plan – for example, right-hand or left-hand scheduling, optimization for the efficient use of a given resource or the fastest course of all production operations, and so on.
For production orders, it is also possible to define a fixed start or priority for their scheduling in production.
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