FP&S

Stages of planning of technology processes and creation of schedules.

The FP&S systems calculate the detailed production plan and determines the optimal sequence of tasks by all numerous resources of the enterprise of rather available production requirements. They provides the most effective use of a production equipment, reducing waiting time and execution of operations and maximizing use of critical resources. The FP&S systems use the data arriving from workshops and make the intellectual changes of works orders connected with forced equipment downtime, deficit of materials or absence of personnel. When there are problems, they will dynamically re-plan production operations, automatically accelerating, slowing down or rerouting the last for the purpose of minimization of violation of the production schedule.

As a rule the FP&S systems, are integrated with ERP and other corporate information systems, considerably expanding their functionality in the field of planning. The integrated solution represents a full-fledged corporate management system in which all types of control functions by material flows  — registration and accounting of commodity and material transactions, operational planning by production, sales planning, stocks and transactions and also strategic business planning are implemented.

Problems of the FP&S systems

• Reduction of time of after-hour works.
• Optimization of distribution planning for the purposes of change of a production route of products in terms of cost value and availability.
• Optimization of utilization of capacities at the level of the line and work centers.
• Minimization of influence of repair work and maintenance of production lines.
• Automation of detailed operational potsekhovy planning and dynamic replanning on the basis of the arriving information.
• Respect for the correct sequences of production operations for each product.
• Determination and elimination of idle times in work and "bottlenecks".
• Minimization of idle time for the reasons of unplanned stops, processings and scheduled preventive maintenance.

Functions of the FP&S systems

• Synchronous materials requirement planning, parts and production resources (the equipment, personnel, the equipment and warehouses) taking into account the available restrictions (priority of accomplishment of customer orders, required loading of the equipment, work in progress volumes).
• Means of multicriteria optimization of production plans (service level of clients, utilization of the equipment, rhythm of production  , etc.)
• Integration of long-term business planning, mid-term planning of sales, stocks and transactions, operational planning and scheduling of works orders into a whole.
• Accurate linking of each element of the dependent and independent demand (the customer order, the production order  , etc.) with covering elements (orders for production of component parts, purchase orders of materials  , etc.) for accurate determination of dates of possible shipment of products.
• Possibility of fast and accurate recalculation of plans and permission of the current shop events (delay of deliveries, breakdown of the equipment, the increased defects level  , etc.).
• Means of interactive creation and analysis of different versions of the production plan.
• Calculation of detailed financial performance for production plans.
• Optimization of use of alternative process flows and design specifications on all production cycle  — from final assembly before purchase of materials.
• Simulars of difficult technology equipment (group and cassette processing, cascading, different equipment, work speed  , etc.).
• Minimization of time of reconfiguration of the equipment and optimization of the size of batches for the purpose of reduction of a production cycle.
• Accounting of the set priorities (The VIP client, a prototype  , etc.) and type (the forecast, a quota, the confirmed order  , etc.) of the independent demand when balancing and scheduling.
• The planning algorithms configured by users determined by additional quality characteristics of materials and products.
• Automatic detection of bottlenecks and determination of alternative routes of processing of tasks.

Examples of the FP&S systems

• Adexa
• Zenith SPPS
• Asprova
• Advanced Manufacturing Management