Purpose
- The plant manufactures blades and nozzle guide vanes for the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries.
- Align scheduling of multiple complex manufacturing areas and having a single overview
- To create more visibility on what will happen in the future
Project Scope
- Create insights into the real capacity of the factory
- Create an insight on the expected end dates of works orders
- Explore possibilities to respond rapidly to changes
Solution Approach
- SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Scheduling provided necessary insight on production scheduling
- Tight integration with both ERP and MES to leverage the existing information within the organization
- Powerful APS algorithms to create multiple planning scenario’s applicable to each situation
The Results
- 25% reduction in customer complaints on delivery performance
- More than 5% yield improvement through improved scheduling
- 10% increase in delivery performance
- Improved forecasting ability
- The ability to create and compare various planning scenarios to pick the best applicable scenario at that moment.
- Empowered the customer project team members to be involved in the design of the two-way data exchange between ERP, APS and MES
Systems, Tools & Services Expertise
- SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Planning & Scheduling software
