Production Scheduling
Prepare comprehensive production schedules with powerful algorithms and high speed. Optimize capacity utilization, meet order deadlines, and minimize costs.
Planner Problems
Complex challenges encountered in production scheduling processes.
Balancing Capacity and Productivity
In production facilities, it is crucial to use capacity correctly and productively in order to meet sales orders by the desired deadline. Production schedules should plan the right order with the right machine and at the right time, and product changeovers and other production costs should be kept to minimum.
The planner's constraints include: sales order deadlines, a multi-layered and complex production concept, and limited resources and time. When all these come together, it takes a lot of effort to get the job done.
Multi-Layered Production
Where a product is manufactured on multiple machines, it is necessary to prepare not only the final product schedule but also the schedules for the other machines producing the components. Semi-finished products must be available at the right time and in the right quantity.
Material Constraints
Schedules should consider material constraints and adjustments should be made based the quantity available. The production speed of each product and component will be different, and some will require additional labor or equipment.
Product Changeovers
Product changeovers (setups) must be considered. It should be remembered that these changes may even vary on a machine-by-machine basis in some production facilities. Changeover times should be minimized.
Cost Optimization
The plan should create as little inventory burden as possible, and cost items such as overtime or extra labor should be kept to minimum. Capacity utilization should be maximized.
Unexpected Changes
Machine breakdowns, changing material constraints, and new and unexpected sales orders make this job even more difficult. The plan must be constantly updated and revised.
Conflict Between Departments
Complaints about various product changes in production and criticism about failure to meet deadlines overwhelm the planner. Probability of making mistakes increases, whereas work motivation declines.
Planner Gains
The tangible benefits you gain in your production scheduling processes with Arkhon.
Perform the Comprehensive Calculation Quickly and Accurately
Arkhon performs this comprehensive calculation at high speed and accuracy. It handles the complexity of multi-layered production internally and generates the necessary schedules, including semi-finished products, for the requested orders.
Evaluate All Variables Simultaneously
Arkhon calculates the time required for product changeovers, additional resource use, and delivery times for sales orders all at once.
Easily Try and Optimize Alternatives
Planners analyze outputs; they can easily test alternatives such as overtime, in-machine sequencing, or inter-machine switching. With its deep algorithms and expert coding, Arkhon's high speed factor allows you to create plans in complex environments in a very short time.
Arkhon Production Scheduling Process
Create comprehensive production schedules with product and production parameters. Prepare optimized plans at high speed and accuracy.
Data Entry
Product, machine, order and BOM information
Product Information
- Product descriptions and groups
- Customer information
- Basic production parameters
- Inventory targets
- Planning criteria
Order and BOM
- Stock information
- Sales orders
- Open production orders
- Bill of Material (BOM)
- Product changeover information
Machine and Resources
- Machine descriptions
- Working calendars
- Production durations per product
- Additional resources (mold, labor)
- Capacity information
Outputs
Matrices, work orders, and schedules
Output Process
Based on the information provided, Arkhon first prepares production and setup matrices, then creates work orders, and finally implements powerful algorithms to generate optimized production schedules.
Matrices
- Production Matrix: Product-semi finished product BOM
- Production durations and machine relationships
- Setup Matrix: Machine-based product changeover durations
- Product type cross-change matrix
Work Orders
- Work orders linked to sales orders
- Production orders for the main product
- Production orders for the semi-finished product
- Work order prioritization
Production Schedules
- Start-end times per work order
- Setup durations
- Capacity and additional resource optimization
- Order deadline comparison
Interactive Optimization
When Arkhon performs automatic calculations, user can modify the schedules to find the optimum point. Through its very fast calculation process, it supports simulation and scenario analysis.
Reports
Capacity, order and production reports
Primary Reports
Capacity utilization in work centers and production details for finished products.
- Capacity utilization reports
- Product-based production plan
- Semi-finished product schedules
- Where, when, how much
Secondary Reports
Sales order-based confirmation and detailed schedule analysis.
- Order-based confirmation reports
- Detailed production schedule
- Gantt chart
- Deadline comparison analysis
Production Reports
Operational reports prepared on production work orders.
- Work order lists
- Machine-based planning
- Setup analysis reports
- Capacity utilization reports
Optimize Your Production Schedules
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