Features
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Capacity Calculation
Within the determined planning horizon, it offers realistic capacity calculation with shift-based capacity calculation, special and general downtime of workforce and machines, maintenance plans integrated with ERP software, leave / absent personnel, holiday calendar and workforce capacity efficiency definitions. In addition, overtime and resource-based labor productivity definitions are enabled with advanced scenario management. Thus, capacity calculations can be made for different scenarios.
Material Driven Scheduling
Scheduling under material constraints makes the most efficient use of available resources and ensures that production processes continue without disruption with a phantom stock solution for materials that have not yet been procured. This approach optimizes inventory management, keeps costs under control and improves delivery times. In addition, with multi-plant integration, finished goods produced in one plant can be identified as raw materials on the other plant, providing flexible and adaptable production planning with a high ability to respond quickly to unexpected changes.
Advanced Priority Management: Macro Rules
With advanced priority management, operations to be scheduled can be sorted on production lines based on priorities and constraints. Special schedules can be created to maximize or minimize different KPIs. With its parametric structure, models suitable for the production system can be built quickly. This ensures that critical jobs are completed on time. In addition to work priority, delivery date or setup time minimization variables, special customer-defined priority feature can be defined.
Optimized Finite Scheduling
Infinite capacity planning and scheduling optimizes production processes by ensuring that available resources are used in the most efficient way possible. This approach involves taking into account capacity constraints on the production line and distributing the workload efficiently. This ensures that resources are used efficiently and the production process continues without disruption.
Batch Operation Scheduling
Batch Operation Scheduling enables planning by grouping jobs with similar characteristics within defined rules. This approach aims to utilize machine capacity in the most efficient way and ensure smooth, uninterrupted execution of sequential operations. Handling jobs in batches reduces setup and changeover times, resulting in a more balanced production flow. By considering predecessor and successor job relationships, the scheduling process optimizes production order and achieves maximum efficiency in resource utilization.
Management of Overlapping Operations
In modern production planning, managing the transitions between consecutive tasks is essential for minimizing total Lead Times. This section defines the rules for Overlapping Operations, which allow a successor task to begin before the predecessor is fully completed. By moving away from traditional "finish-to-start" constraints, this approach ensures a continuous and accelerated production flow.
Tool & Die Driven Scheduling
By focusing on the optimal use of tools and molds, idle time is minimized and the effective use of these resources is maximized. Production plans made in a single operation, such as one mold many products or many molds many products, can be modeled and scheduled. In addition, the number of shift-based mold changes is balanced between shifts.
Scheduling with Operator Constraints
Optimal identification and management of operator constraints maximizes workforce utilization. Production plans can be created by taking into account the operators' skills, which labor/machine resource they will work with, their working hours and availability. Thus, workload is balanced between operations and production continuity is ensured.
Scheduling with Mold Change Constraints
Scheduling with mold change constraints ensures that mold changes are made within certain constraints to optimize production processes. This feature makes it easier to organize mold changes on production lines on a line or shift basis and prevent capacity overload.
Automatic Machine Shutdown and Rescheduling
Enables automatic shutdown of machines in case of malfunctions or downtimes on the production line and rescheduling of affected jobs along with linked operations. Thanks to MES integration, disruptions are instantly reflected in the system and the production plan is dynamically updated.
Real-Time Job Completion Percentage Tracking on Gantt
Displays the completion percentage of jobs in real-time on the Gantt chart, enabling comparison of planned and actual status. With MES integration, production progress is tracked in real-time, deviations are detected, and reporting processes are supported.
Non-Preemptive Operation Definitions
Ensures that production operations are completed without interruption once started, preventing incomplete jobs, unplanned downtimes, and efficiency losses due to restarts. If an operation cannot be completed without interruption, the job start is automatically blocked and production flow becomes more predictable.
Inter-Operation Time Constraint Definitions
Ensures that production flow is controlled and predictable by defining minimum and maximum waiting times between consecutive operations. Time constraints are set for operations that should not be started early or late, minimizing quality and process risks.
Scheduling with Alternative Route Definitions
Identifies the most suitable route among different machine and operation sequences by considering capacity and constraints. It automatically locks the selected route while continuing to perform the most efficient assignments among alternative machines within that route. This ensures a dynamic and error-free workflow in complex production processes.
Scheduling with Resource Constraints that Can Work Concurrently
Defining resource interoperability constraints increases the efficiency of production processes. Capacity usage is balanced by limiting the number of machines that can work simultaneously on a particular line. In this way, resource overload on the line is prevented and operations are planned smoothly.
Scheduling with Synchronized Start of Successive Operations
Optimizes total lead time by enabling successive operations to start simultaneously instead of using traditional sequential logic. Maximizes production efficiency through zero waiting time and parallel line flow.
Scheduling with Queue Constraints
Limits the number of work orders to manage physical space and transport capacities. Prevents station-based bottlenecks and uncontrolled work accumulation through controlled flow management.
Scheduling with Shift-Start Assignment Constraints
Prevents critical operations from being assigned to risky time slots such as machine warm-up or setup periods. Minimizes scrap risk through quality-oriented planning by automatically shifting jobs to the most suitable shifts.
Planning of Jobs By Automatic Division Into Batch Sizes
Automatic division of jobs according to batch sizes increases the speed and efficiency of production processes. By sharing the workload between the defined alternative machines, it is possible to process more than one machine at the same time. In this way, production times are shortened and resource usage is optimized.
Job & Resource Relation Rules
According to the features and capabilities of the resources, rules can be defined about which work can be done in which resource. With the advanced rule definition tool, all job and resource connection definitions that the business needs can be transferred to the system.
Defining Flexible Rules with C# Script
Flexible and special rule definitions can be made beyond standard rules with C# script support. Complex scenarios and constraints specific to production are easily modeled and integrated into planning. In this way, production processes can be fully customized and efficiency is increased.
Sequence Dependent Setup Definitions
Machine efficiency is increased by minimizing the set-up times required for machine operation during product changeovers with the most suitable changeover possible and with the applicable production sequence. Setting time is minimized by bringing jobs with the same setting family one after the other.
Detailed Material & Tools Usage Analysis
Detailed material and vehicle utilization analysis determines the utilization of materials and vehicles as a result of scheduling and reports the details. In this way, purchase order quantities for materials and vehicles required for scheduling can be determined.
Work Compression Tolerance
Job compression tolerance provides the possibility to manage urgent deadlines and flex the production process by compressing the completion times of operations in the production schedule by a tolerable amount and placing them in the gaps in the schedule.
Forward - Backward Scheduling
With forward scheduling, operations can be scheduled forward from the beginning of the planning horizon. With backward scheduling, operations are scheduled backwards from their delivery dates. Both scheduling methods can be used.
Hybrid Optimization
Scheduling can be done both forward and backward from the current date in the same APS session. This feature is mostly used when scheduling backwards according to the sales order delivery date and forward scheduling to produce for stock.
Reducing In-Workshop WIP Stocks
WIP stock levels are reduced by minimizing waiting times between operations. In this way, in-workshop transportation, handling and related stock keeping costs are minimized and efficiency is increased.
Overtime Management
Time slots for overtime are determined in shift definitions. Overtime capacity can be turned on and off on time axis with the approval of the planner in the scheduling session.
What-If Scenarios
Advanced scenario management enables comparison and analysis by creating different production scenarios. This feature helps find the best solutions by evaluating the effects of possible changes.
OEE-Based Resource Workflow Optimization
With the resource-based performance multiplier used in OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) calculation, production speed is adjusted according to the availability and capacity of resources, and workflow efficiency is optimized.
Alternative Resource Migration with Rules or Capabilities
In the transition of resources from one job to another; It refers to the matrix created by rules or resource capabilities such as material properties, order, customer characteristics. According to this matrix, the most efficient allocation is provided among alternative resources.
Visually Identify Production Bottlenecks
By visually identifying production bottlenecks, the causes of delays in the production process are highlighted with graphical tools and the relevant bottlenecks can be intervened quickly.
Resource Grouping & Load Balancing
By grouping identical resources, it is aimed to distribute the work to the resources within the group in a balanced manner. This prevents bottlenecks and increases efficiency.
Advanced Visual Filtering
On the Gantt diagram, resources, operations, predecessors and successors can be filtered or grouped through advanced methods. The chart can therefore be visually presented in a more readable way.
Extensible Reporting
With advanced reporting, flexible and dynamic reports can be created for plan-specific needs. Scenarios can be compared and the most appropriate solutions can be implemented.
Integration
By connecting APS software with other systems such as ERP and MES, data flow is organized and functionality is increased. Data consistency is ensured by using instant and real data.
Machine / Die Maintenance Integration
By integrating the maintenance plan into the scheduling session, the downtime of the resources to be maintained can be defined automatically on the time axis.
HR Integration
By integrating employee leaves into the scheduling environment, downtime or work performance losses can be managed by analyzing the workforce and machines based on operator skills.
Optimization Step by Step
Step-by-step optimization increases efficiency by optimizing each step in the production process individually. Thus, processes are managed in a more controlled and effective way.
Job Fixing
Job pinning ensures that certain critical jobs are fixed in the production schedule and protected from changes, maintaining the stability of the production plan.
Bottleneck Job Fixing Module
The bottleneck job planning module is used to optimize the solution of known bottlenecks.
Drag & Drop Scheduling
Operations can be positioned and easily adjusted on the chart with drag and drop feature.
Extensible Dashboards
Analysis tables with a very strong visual aspect can be created over the determined KPIs.
Audit of Operational Data Quality
Simple and purposeful warning messages are shared with which feature of which data needs to be changed.
