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SmartOps Production Management: Continuous Process
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- Utility
Production Planning
Few dozen Product SKU's and multi-stage production across workcenter with alternatives, varying orders and due dates can make Planning for Production difficult. Every combination of possible routing, sequence and timing can yield different results.
Manufacturing companies generally are said to operate in <10% margins. There is not much room for rework, quality defects.
Don't loose your advantage by continuing to plan using spreadsheets. XPlan Production Management will provide intelligent cost optimized plans, with high fulfillment, automation, visibility of plan and bottlenecks.
Situational Awareness
Shop floor Operators, Quality Lab Technicians, Technical Services, Maintenance personnel's often don't have the full picture at the point of use, even though data may be collected by some system. Lack of situational awareness could lead to wrong assumptions, actions or analysis when attempting audit.
XPlan enables truly digital shopfloor with capabilities of bringing Orders, Schedules, Production execution, Defetcs, Lab Samples, Maintenance work orders, Sensor Data, 3D graphics all at one place and linked to each other.
Utility Planning
Utility Planning is often disconnected and derived plan from Production Plan. These assumptions could be costly and even unacceptable to some industries.
XPlan Utility plan is integrated with Production planning. Availability, procurement, Consumption and cost linking makes your plan feasible and comprehensive.
Operations Scheduling
Close to execution Short term Operations Scheduling helps adapt to daily changes and yet keep shopfloor activities in sync and focused towards customer needs in most profitable way.
Sequencing of operations on each workcenter while taking care of campaign size, competing order due dates and also aligned with multi-stage production sequence across workcenters can be challenging for Planners (PPC department).
XPlan Production Management searches for all possible combinations and prescribes the best schedule that ensures, highest fulfilment, efficiency, cost and asset utilization.
Defect Management
XPlan Production Management helps clients with preventive and corrective Quality Management.
Detailed Scheduling ensure on-spec operations, making SOP's digitally available at point of use as checklist, Situational awareness of process and equipment in terms of SCADA data.
Associating defects with batch units in form of image, sound, sensor data and document digitally, routing for re-work and allowing in-depth quality audits and genealogy tracking.
Workflow Collaboration
XPlan Production Management provides configurable workflows enables stakeholders in shopfloor like operator, supervisor, quality and maintenance personnel's to collaborate on several matters thus creating a cohesive unit and making sure people involved are informed and nothing falls through the cracks.
Shift Management
During Shift Handover, important Safety, quality and productivity information is exchanged. Supervisor needs to be aware of outstanding issues and critical alerts.
Extensive note writing isn't always possible. Associating data can be little painful. But collectively and with help of integration and digital operations using XPlan Production Management, manufacturing operations can excel.