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Specification Blending
Blended products can have multiple physical and chemical properties that required to be met simultaneously.
Density, Sulphur, Metal content, RON etc. in Gasoline.
OR Acidity, Sweetness, Viscosity, Preservative concentration etc. in case of Fruit Juice.
OR Fixed Carbon, Moisture, Ash Content, Volatile Matter, Sulphur, Fineness etc. in coal for Power plant.
Simultaneously meeting specifications within narrow bounds when incoming component specs keeps ever changing and the available quantity and arrival schedule may not allow any ratio blending requires evaluating many combinations. Feasibility is a challenge and optimization a distant objective. With XPlan Blend Scheduling its possible.
Continuous Operations
Each Blending Process has a customer.
Coal Blending has coker plant or Power plant as customer. Right kind and continuous feed is a must for steady and profitable operation.
Refineries crude intake or product components can vary as per varying crude diet & upstream operations. Simultaneously meeting all specifications of downstream requirement and meeting Order Time windows.
Similar is the case with other industries like Beverages, Pharma Metal Alloying, Scrap Processing etc.
Recipe needs to adapt to Component availability, Flow and Specifications limits simultaneously. XPlan Blend Scheduling advanced algorithm finds the most optimal recipe that keeps recipe feasible and cost and quality giveaway/defects minimal.
Reduced Quality Give-away
A superior component with quality spec better than FG specification can be blended optimally with inferior spec component. The choices of such blending material, quantity and timing are numerous and often beyond the capability of planner.
XPlan Blend Scheduling evaluates all possibilities by Quantity, Quality, flow, Capacity, over time and with cost consideration to iteratively find better solution.
Inventory Optimization
Holding the right component for the time and using up the other components to create space for new arrivals could take several iterations of thinking and n number of trials.
XPlan does all that more easily, delivery best working capital metric and inventory Optimization.
Reduced Cost
Premium components but important to meet the at least one of the specification can be mixed with other inferior components to strike the right balance between quality and cost.
XPlan Blend Scheduling advanced algorithm automatically finds the best option.