Developers: | BFG Group |
Technology: | APS - Synchronous Production Planning Systems, MES - Production and Repair Management |
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Main article: MES systems - functions and advantages
BFG iMES (formerly BFG QRM) is a production dispatching system designed for picking and launching tasks into production, performing operational control and personal identification of production personnel according to completed tasks.
2022: Opportunities and effects from the implementation of iMES BFG
According to the information for December 2022, BFG iMES allows:
- Implement analytics and filtering on route sheets to manage operational work in the workshop.
- Monitor the availability of route sheets for launch into production.
- Manage batches in production.
- Manage batch picking, including partial assembly picking.
- Suspend batches for additional inspections.
- Mark marriage, keep a list of reasons for marriage.
- Support "comments" from employees on specific shift tasks.
- The role model of users has ready-to-use functionality:
- Planner;
- Picker;
- Master;
- Worker;
- Supervisor.
Implementation effects
According to the developers, BFG iMES:
- Increases labor productivity by 20-30%
- Reduces working capital and WIP by 50%
- Ensures the fulfillment of orders on time by 100%
- Ensures 100% transparency of the manufacturing process
Replaces foreign products:
2020: iMES BFG Opportunities
BFG iMES (formerly BFG QRM) is an operational production management system (APS/MES) with assignment to workers and dispatching. It builds the optimal plan, issues tasks to workers and dispatches. Its use helps to reduce planning errors and quickly respond to changes.
Unlike classic MES systems, BFG iMES:
- Automatically creates optimal business processes and rules.
- Dynamically changes processes in response to deviations.
- Considers the entire production system with all relationships.
Opportunities
Among the BFG iMES opportunities for June 2020:
- Auto-build a feasible plan and issue tasks to workers.
- Rapid rescheduling in case of deviations.
- Modeling of order execution options in case of changes in resources, planning policies, emergence of urgent orders, etc.
- Ensure transparency by tracking orders, queues, and loading resources.
- Forecast order release dates.
- Planning of procurement of materials and components.
2017
Description of BFG QRM
BFG software products (BFG IS platform, BFG CMT, BFG QRM) for industry are a tool for introducing economically feasible changes in the enterprise, ultra-fast adaptive management of the production system, as well as building an effective system of cooperation of distributed industries.
BFG QRM is a tool for efficient rapid response production with an automated two-level planning system. BFG QRM allows you to quickly respond to any changes in the market and internal environment, including in conditions of incompleteness of data. The program carries out ultra-fast calculations of the most complex production plans allows you to adjust and recalculate them in real time, which significantly reduces the time for volume-calendar and operational planning. The essence of the technology is to allocate the resources and capacities of the enterprise along the critical chain, taking into account the existing restrictions for guaranteed fulfillment of customer orders on time. The program generates a list of necessary resources for the implementation of plans, issues shift-daily tasks and monitors the implementation of the production plan.
BFG QRM allows you to effectively solve the following problems:
- Realistic assessment of the deadlines for completing tasks;
- Issuance of shift-daily tasks at any time on request, taking into account the priority of orders, equipment status, current data on work in progress;
- Efficient planning with a 100% order fulfillment guarantee on time;
- Monitoring the execution of the production plan in real time;
- Production management under conditions of uncertainty and variability;
- Daily forecasts on the timing of the release of orders and the list of key resources on which the implementation of plans depends;
- Scheduling on the principle of minimum planning in the context of changing resources and priorities;
- Organization of information, monitoring and dispatching to control the operational activities of the enterprise production system.
Release
In 2017, the BFG QRM product was released for operational management.