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PAS-X Business Functions
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| FINITE SCHEDULING |
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| Production-related Scheduling |
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FINITE SCHEDULING is the PAS-X business function for a detailed planning of production processes; and it includes functions for checking material availability and for order control.
FINITE SCHEDULING complements the production planning of ERP systems by additional planning and controlling functions for production-related scheduling. Graphic planning boards provide a quick overall view of the most important planning details, visualize and optimize complex relationships, and make it easier to modify order scenarios down to the shop floor level.
FINITE SCHEDULING has a modular structure. Thus, the schedulers can flexibly define the extent to which they want the software to support them in planning the production process.
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| Order Control |
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For the purpose of a detailed production planning, FINITE SCHEDULING uses the specifications defined
in the ERP system. FINITE SCHEDULING can either directly access the master batch records managed and
maintained in the MASTER BATCH RECORDS business function or retrieve basic recipes from the ERP system.
If these basic recipes already contain production planning details, FINITE SCHEDULING adopts the orders
in corresponding sequence using certified interfaces. The scheduler can then optimize them for the production
process by means of the provided simulation and finite scheduling functions.
The scheduler can use the simulation functions to develop several production scenarios and to compare them to one another.
Graphic evaluation functions create the basis for selecting the most favorable production model. In the context of
detailed planning, FINITE SCHEDULING considers marginal conditions which previous production planning operations
have not taken into account. Some of these conditions are:
- capacities of systems, machines and staff
- production preparation times
- downtimes and maintenance periods
- set-up and cleaning times
- product compatibilities
- material availabilities
- information on material status
- release periods
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| Materials Planning |
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The Material Planning business sub-function provides the option to
integrate material usage and material availability checks into the scheduling
process.
In this context, the focus is on production-integrated scheduling. FINITE SCHEDULING supports
the planning operations for material staging and for controlling material replenishment. This
functionality is of special importance for production environments requiring large quantities
of material. Usually, long-term stockpiling of such materials is not possible and such materials
must be delivered just-in-time
for use. The periods required to approve raw materials and semi-finished products additionally
affect the planning process. They are taken into account in the production-based material availability check.
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| Planning Cockpit |
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| The most important feature in production scheduling is a continuous feedback from the
manufacturing process. In a continuous actual-to-target value comparison, FINITE SCHEDULING
compares the planned production situation to the actual situation. Instantaneous feedback
from the shop floor level by means of process data acquisition (PDA) on malfunctions
affecting schedules, bottlenecks in resources and delays in production enables
the scheduler to take necessary actions at an early stage, if necessary.
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| Transparent Planning Process |
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| The PAS-X Workplace Concept provides workplace-related dialogs
tailored to all users and their individual scope of duties. In addition, anyone
involved in the production process, be it supervisors or production managers, can
directly view the current status of production scheduling. Of course, PAS-X can also
make the same information available to an extended group of people, e.g. the sales & marketing
team. Thus, the system provides all employees with information that is relevant to them personally.
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| Evaluations |
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FINITE SCHEDULING provides standardized evaluations to enable optimized production scheduling, such as:
- product-oriented evaluations
- machine-oriented evaluations
- capacity evaluations
- stock-oriented evaluations
Open interfaces enable an export of the scheduling data to Analysis Tools
for the purpose of additional, individual evaluations.
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PAS-X Business Functions