At the stage of launching a new production or a separate production line for any product, the planning stage is especially important. It involves carrying out preliminary calculations in order to determine the feasibility and profitability of a new undertaking. The greatest efficiency at this stage is shown by automated production planning using specialized software.
One of the most convenient and functional software tools is Qguar APS Pro, a product developed by Quantum International. It is suitable for launching projects of any scale in industrial enterprises operating in the food, chemical, pharmaceutical industries, in the field of heavy engineering, etc. The APS system is suitable for the following production scenarios:
- production of a wide range of goods within one plant/factory;
- production of products according to a complex multi-stage technology using high-tech equipment;
- the need to use several different resources in the production of goods;
- work with individual orders;
- production requiring constant changes in schedules and adjustments to plans.
Functionality Qguar APS Pro
This production planning program is necessary for the development of launch scenarios and the subsequent development of a new direction. It allows you to accurately calculate the amount of necessary resources for the implementation of the project, optimize costs and create effective algorithms in which industrial equipment and personnel will work with maximum productivity and minimum downtime. Thanks to this, orders will be fulfilled without violating the planned deadlines and schedules.
Qguar APS program solves the following work tasks:
- Qualitative and quantitative analysis of existing production capacities.
- Calculation of the time for the implementation of production processes.
- Drawing up schedules and schedules for the lines.
- Efficient inventory management.
- Analysis of the speed of performance of work tasks in order to identify bottlenecks, shortcomings that entail downtime, deviations from schedules, and subsequent adjustment of plans.
- Choice of optimization criteria.
APS simultaneously analyzes a lot of indicators: time spent on production and outsourcing, the number of requests completed late and ahead of schedule, the duration of delays, periods of downtime, etc. This allows you to create a detailed step-by-step production schedule that takes into account all the influencing factors in the complex.
Benefits of implementing an APS system
Automation allows you to generate the most efficient and effective scenario for the introduction of a new production line. At the same time, the production planning system provides users with a number of advantages:
- prompt execution of orders;
- minimization of idle time of capacities, personnel;
- timely elimination of errors;
• productivity increase; - optimization of resource use and cost reduction;
- structuring and rational distribution of work tasks;
- identification of the bottlenecks that need to be improved;
- Reducing the time required to changeover production lines.
Thus, the automation of production planning allows you to optimize production scenarios to determine the most effective order fulfillment algorithms, control delivery deadlines in order to increase the level of service, and hence customer loyalty.
In addition, the APS program can be integrated with other Qguar IT products for production management (MES) and territory management (YMS), which allows you to increase the profitability of the enterprise by an order of magnitude.