Advanced Planning, Scheduling and Dispatching
 
 

For the operative planning of production and logistic processes, miscellaneous software tools for advanced planning (lot size and orders), machine and job scheduling as well as for dispatching (job sequence planning) are available on the market.

We are your competent partner for the selection, IT integration and model configuration of operative planning solutions. We accompany you during the requirements analysis, the selection of standard systems or the development of specific plannning solutions tailored to your operational requirements.
 
 

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Customer's benefits:

  • maximization of due date compliance and on time delivery
  • reduction of cycle times
  • maximization of throughput per product 
  • minimization of production inventory and work in process (WIP)
  • maximization of resource utilization (machines, operators, secondary resources etc.)
  • identification and management of bottlenecks
  • shift planning reports for operators
  • shift planning reports for maintenance activities

Competences of acp-IT:

  • extensive know how about scheduling algorithms, standard solutions, software development and IT integration of planning solutions
  • process know-how and successful improvement projects in semiconductor, photovoltaics, high-tech and automobile manufacturing industries
  • extensive method knowledge and competent project management

Our services:

  • requirements analysis, definition of optimization targets, specification of interfaces to operative IT systems (MES, ERP, etc.)
  • strategic consulting about the selection and introduction of a planning and scheduling solution
  • development of customer specific planning, scheduling and dispatching solutions
  • IT integration, data management, interface implementation
  • configuration of planning algorithms or dispatch rule sets

References:

  • development of a "shifted bottleneck heuristic" scheduler for semiconductor manufacturing
  • development of a shift-planning scheduler with evolutionary algorithms for discrete manufacturing
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