What benefits can the APS production scheduling system bring to enterprises?

PlanMateAPS is an advanced production planning and scheduling system. The introduction of PlanMateAPS will completely get rid of the chaotic situation of planning, help enterprises make better use of resources, improve production efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver on time.

Benefits PlanMateAPS? brings to you:

On time delivery:

Through accurate long-term planning, we conduct order delivery assessments and give customers more accurate delivery replies to avoid frequent delays.

If the overall production capacity is met, but the order load is unbalanced in time, the company can communicate with the customer in advance to adjust the delivery date to make production more balanced.

Through long-term production capacity analysis, companies can make preparations in advance, including preparing for outsourcing, purchasing equipment, customizing molds, recruiting employees, etc.

reduce manufacturing cost:

Accurate equipment scheduling greatly improves equipment utilization.

APS is scheduled at full capacity according to standard working hours and will not reduce equipment efficiency. When production capacity is ample, PlanMateAPS shortens working hours and reduces overtime, rather than reducing efficiency.

Due to inaccurate calculations in the manual scheduling method, workshops often use long working hours and low-efficiency production.

Quickly respond to exceptions and order changes:

Under manual scheduling, order changes and on-site exceptions are a nightmare. The plan that was finally arranged becomes chaotic immediately after modification, and the planner is always putting out fires. Especially for companies with multiple processes, changes in plans often cause process conflicts.

With PlanMateAPS, plan modifications are intuitive and easy. The system can be quickly rescheduled to get a new plan immediately in just a few minutes, making plan changes easy.

Reduce the quantity of work in progress:

In multi-process manufacturing enterprises, in order to reduce the complexity of scheduling, production management often enlarges the buffer time between processes. The pre-process and the post-process are produced one day (24 hours) or at least one shift (12 hours) apart, so that planners can There is no need to calculate the start time. The result is that there are too many WIPs in the workshop, causing confusion and easily affecting quality.

After the introduction of APS, the buffer time between processes can only consider transportation and batch requirements. The interval between processes is shortened to 2-4 hours, the number of half-finished products is reduced by more than 50%, and the overall WIP of the product will be greatly shortened.

Reduce raw material inventory and reduce shortages

A large part of the reason for excessive inventory or frequent material shortages is inaccurate long-term planning. Many materials have long procurement lead times, and without accurate production planning, suppliers cannot be provided with accurate delivery date requirements. Frequent changes in delivery dates make it difficult for suppliers to arrange production and delivery, and also lead to excessive inventory and frequent material shortages.

The long-term planning function of PlanMateAPS can prepare accurate long-term plans based on actual production capacity. The plans are accurate to the day and can be rescheduled every week and adjusted according to new needs. Calculate procurement requirements according to accurate production plans and provide accurate material requirement quantities and delivery requirements. Suppliers can arrange production totals and delivery in advance.

Reduce half-product inventory and increase completion rate

Product production and finished product production plans are independent, half-product inventory is too high, and assembly completeness is low. This is a problem for many companies.

PlanMate can well coordinate production plan coordination issues in workshops/multi-factories, coordinate production plans for parts and assembly, and reduce half-product inventory.

Data sharing – on-site transparency:

Everyone who works in a company spends a lot of time coordinating and communicating. Business, purchasing, warehouse, and production departments spend a lot of time coordinating production and delivery plans.

After importing APS, the results of APS are used to drive procurement and material preparation. Production and delivery follow the APS scheduling results. There is no need for repeated communication. Everything speaks for itself with data.

In the data center assigned to PlanMate, various departments in the company can view the production plans and delivery dates of all orders through the WEB at any time, and view and download reports by themselves, without the need to repeatedly call the planning department.

Even if business managers are not in the company, they can check the workshop plan and progress and view statistical reports at any time, just as if they were in the workshop