ATS Integrates Advanced Planning & Scheduling System at a Turbine Blade Manufacturer in the UK
Purpose
- Simplified, system driven, Planning & Scheduling process
- Ability to present various short-term schedule scenarios to the planning team(s)
- Obtain medium-term forecasts to support internal forecasting requirements
Project Scope
- Centralised planning/scheduling system covering:
- 100+ Machine Resources
- Operator Shift Constraints
- 5 Quarter Planning
- 300+ Sales Orders
- 15,000+ Operations
Solution Approach
- Requirements capture and high level system design via on premise consultancy
- System development/configuration, including data cleansing activities
- Deployment in parallel to existing system for data/algorithm validation
- Go-Live
Systems & Tools
- SIMATIC IT Preactor
The Results
25% reduction in customer complaints relating to deliveries
>5% yield improvement through optimised scheduling
10% increase in on-time deliveries
Improved Forecasting Ability
Enables scenario planning
