Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Plan with Advanced Planning and Scheduling to optimize the use of raw materials, resources, and production capacity to meet market demand and increase the efficiency of your plants.

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Getting the most out of resources with Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Meeting market demands while optimizing available resources requires that each production step be prepared to the best of its ability. Planning resource utilization in terms of raw materials, personnel and machinery brings significant benefits in terms of increasing capacity and reducing waste. In addition, an organization of resources increases adherence to planned delivery times through more accurate lead time estimation and optimizes inventory management. In terms of sustainability, more efficient plans allow for lower energy and material consumption and greater operational flexibility.

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Increasing production capacity

Increasing production capacity with the same amount of available resources is an essential prerogative for increasing the profitability of plants while increasing their sustainability. Effective planning that takes into account the many production constraints makes it possible to reduce waiting and setup times leading to an increase in the effective availability of assets. Not only that, it reduces time for repetitive activities performed by field personnel, thus allowing them to be able to focus on the quality of operations.

On-time delivery

Meeting market expectations is a key element of a company's competitiveness. Knowing how to plan production schedules realistically and with good accuracy enables you to provide reliable estimates to your customers. Knowing how to absorb the most urgent requests or peaks in demand is essential to maintaining high customer satisfaction. Achieving this requires a well-organized system that reduces operational inefficiencies. Digitization enables efficient medium- to long-term planning, detailed scheduling of production orders, and effective execution at the machine level.

Faster planning

Planning activities taking into account availability constraints among machines, tools, materials and personnel is often a complex task that can be time-consuming for planners when carried out with inefficient tools. This leads to the risk of suboptimal plans and increased management time in case of unforeseen events. A line-level stoppage or urgent need may require reissuing production plans. Greater speed of release means greater responsiveness and further gains in operational efficiency.

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Advanced Planning

Plan activities over the medium and long term, considering sales forecasts, orders, and supply chain constraints. Generates optimized production plans by integrating with ERP and MRP systems and digitizing the planning process. It manages Make to Stock and Make to Order logics from single site to scale up to multi-site organizations.

Advanced Scheduling

From production plans, generates work sequences over the short term by managing capacity constraints of machines, materials, tools and people. A finite-capacity scheduler applies advanced algorithms to find the best sequence that minimizes waiting and setting times. Interfaced to MES systems, it monitors the status of progress and alerts on delay risks, replanning rapidly considering new time constraints.

Manufacturing Execution

Receive work sequences and download them to the machine level reducing manual activities and track in real time all progress: consumption, materials produced and quality. They ensure full visibility into work order execution and measure actual machine performance, which can be used at the scheduling level to generate increasingly accurate plans.

Standard procedures

Associates each work step of a production order with information to guarantee quality and reduce errors: machine settings, work instructions, safety procedures or technical drawings. Supports operators by guiding them during the execution of each operation and ensures compliance with best practices and regulations.

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PlanetTogether - Advanced Planning & Scheduling

PlanetTogether is the complete APS solution that includes finite capacity algorithms, What If simulation, and integration with MRP and MES systems. Scalable solution from a single site to multi-site.

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AVEVA MES Operations

AVEVA MES Operations enables Production Order Management by enabling the modeling of items, assets, Bill of Materials and processes.

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AVEVA MES Performance

Tracks each phase of an asset or line's life and allows you to measure its perforamance and identify bottlenecks.

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Work order management

People are a key factor within production environments. Providing timely information on the status of work allows for shorter reaction times and greater involvement of the workforce. To achieve the best return on investment from a digitalization project, it is therefore crucial to ensure that the collected information is always and everywhere available.

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The manufacturing world increasingly needs flexible production processes in order to adapt to market demands: variable demand with peaks that are not easily predictable or new products that need to be brought to market quickly add up to a raw material availability that is not always optimal due to more volative supply chains. It is therefore critical to ensure that available resources are tracked and exploited to ensure their availability and best meet production schedules.

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Industrial operations are caretterized by a very heterogeneous context of measures and actions to be tracked. Highly automated environments coexist with manual actions influenced by people's decisions. Describing and objectively measuring workflows is an unavoidable necessity in order to achieve more efficient and sustainable processes. Today's challenge focuses on the ability to analyze to get the right insights. Identifying the relationships between products, consumption, and production assets with respect to organizational choices can bring improvements that can go even beyond expectations.

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Quality control is crucial for attaining a competitive edge. It ensures customer satisfaction by upholding products to established standards and expectations, thereby reducing operating costs through waste reduction and minimizing the necessity for rework.
Compliance with industry-specific regulations is another crucial aspect of quality control, as it ensures that products comply with legal and safety requirements, thereby avoiding potential penalties and litigation.
Finally, quality control plays a critical role in enterprise risk management, as it helps prevent defective product recalls, legal implications and damage to the company's reputation.

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Manufacturing order management represents a priority challenge for factories in conducting their production operations. At the heart of this management lies the delicate balance between meeting delivery deadlines, maintaining product quality, and optimizing resource use. Demand fluctuations, variability in material delivery times, and the need to continuously adjust production plans make the task even more challenging. Effective manufacturing order management is not only crucial for meeting customer expectations in terms of speed and quality; it also plays a key role in reducing production costs and minimizing waste and downtime.

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