Simatic IT Preactor

SIMATIC IT is an APS production system of SIEMENS.

Description

SIMATIC IT allows to execute complex modeling of production processes, to precisely define their opportunities and to obtain data from ERP level and the level of automatic equipment in real time. It provides execution of more effective management of production and growth of its flexibility.

Advantages of use

First, even difficult business processes and structures of production which can be joint afterwards most efficiently can be subjected to modeling.

Secondly, processes of modeling remain completely transparent and clear and, the most important, - independent of functioning of real management systems.

Thirdly, modeling can be executed in any point of the enterprise: all processes can be standardized and the most successful methods of management can be used in scales of all enterprise.

SIMATIC IT conforms to requirements of ISA-95 standard to MES systems.

Components

SIMATIC IT is the building block system consisting of program components for the solution of all necessary MES tasks as described in ISA-95 standard and going beyond its framework.

Principal component of a system - SIMATIC IT Production Suite which bears in itself(himself) production model taking into account all necessary auxiliary information streams.

The SIMATIC IT Production Suite software package allows consumers to develop and service MES systems which effectively synchronize, coordinate, analyze and optimize production. It covers the majority of the functionality which is required from a MES system, determined by S95 standard.

SIMATIC IT Production Suite is the powerful tool which is quickly developing production model of installation. It provides unique advantage - a possibility of conversion of such model to completely working application using SIMATIC IT or components of other suppliers.

Using Production Suite problems are solved:

• creation of all model of production;
• order management;
• material accounting;
• accounting of the working personnel;
• time management of idle time and operation of the equipment;
• the organization of data exchange in a MES system;
• control of the course of process and many others.

SIMATIC IT is complemented with a series of products which can be used as together with SIMATIC IT Production Suite, as well as irrespective of it:

• SIMATIC IT Historian is a set of program components for collecting and accumulation of technology data for the subsequent their processing or long-term archiving.

• SIMATIC IT Unilab is a management system for laboratory information (Laboratory Information Management System - LIMS).

• SIMATIC IT Interspec is a management system for specifications of a product for corporations and their suppliers.

SIMATIC IT Cross-Industry Libraries provide different technology and logic functions and modules, ready to use, for acceleration of creation of the project and reduction of risk of an error and cost of development. These libraries are provided to certified partners who, in turn, expand them with specialized functions for a certain industry and propose the solution to the customer.

Preactor MES

PREACTOR is the intelligent tool allowing to calculate and optimize quickly production schedules in the automatic mode with a possibility of the subsequent manual correction of results. Similar approach provides creation of real production schedules taking into account features of work of the enterprises.

Preactor APS

The Preactor APS software products are completely integrated with SAP applications of ERP on resource management of the enterprise.

Integration of Preactor and SAP allows to increase effective management of production and resources as that is required by the modern enterprises. The solutions Preactor on the SAP NetWeaver platform distinguish the following advantages:

• substantial increase of visualization, efficiency and control of long-term planning and creation of production schedules; - reduction of volume of trade inventories;
• decrease in production costs;
• reduction of a set-up time to production;
• timely informing on delivery time according to requirements of the customer.

Preactor International has more than 16 years of experience of development of end-to-end systems of planning and scheduling of production. Solutions of Preactor are used by more than 2500 companies worldwide that does it by the most popular direction in the market.

The flexibility of a product allows its use of the different industries of production by the companies:

• automotive industry and aero space;
• chemical and pharmaceutical industry;
• convenience goods;
• electronics and electric equipment;
• production of food and drinks;
• furniture industry and woodworking;
• production of glass and ceramics;
• metal-working industry;
• polygraphy and packaging;
• production of rubber and plastic;
• services;
• textiles and garments;
• mechanical engineering and exact mechanical engineering;
• transport and logistics.

Preactor 300 FSC

Creation of production schedules with limited resources (Finite Capacity Scheduling Tools)

Functionality of Preactor of version 300 FSC helps to build schedules of productive activity for the periods from several days to several months ahead. A big set of options allows to consider the situations connected with readjustment of the equipment for transition to production of a new product and multiple restrictions on resources on separate transaction, to break the order for batches depending on the made decisions on planning. Preactor 300 FCS is configured for planning of performance. The version allows to plan that where and when to make, based on information on expected demand, existence of ready goods in a warehouse and the principles of the order of component parts.

Preactor 400 APS

Operational scheduling, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling)

Preactor 400 APS when scheduling activity considers the equipment, labor resources, tools and also materials. This version has solutions which promote minimization of time of readjustment and determination of a preferable algorithm of action, upon transition of production to a new product. If proposed solutions do not meet user requirements, there is a possibility of adding of specially developed solutions. Besides, function of automatic binding of individual orders on the basis of information on production orders for each level of specifications is implemented here. The solution calculates runtime of dependent orders, based on the rules set by the user.

Preactor 400 APS

Preactor 500 APS has all potential of version 400 APS with adding of functionality of AMC - Advanced Material Control (expanded control of materials), for control of the movement of materials in a production process. AMC visualizes information on existence and the movement of materials using the Overview of Materials tool.

There are additional opportunities for work with lists of materials (BoM) when using functionality "A possibility of the order". Preactor BoM Exploder is not intended for replacement of the module MRP in the ERP system. It is used in the mode "on demand" when the user needs to find achievable date of completion of production for one or several products.

A system provides:

• the automated formation and start of the kits of parts and assemblies necessary for providing client orders taking into account work in progress and the backlogs which are available in warehouses on ready parts and assemblies;
• automatic calculation of materials requirement and the component parts necessary for providing client orders taking into account existence in warehouses;
• automatic formation of the list purchased scarce (absent in warehouses) component parts and materials with indication of required quantity (taking into account the size of the minimum and maximum purchasing lot) and desired delivery date.
• calculation of the operational production schedule taking into account different criteria of optimization (minimization of readjustments, minimization of a WIP, parallel loading, lacing of bottlenecks, etc.);
• formation of production schedules for work centers;
• formation of analytical reports and managing production documents;
• transfer of results of calculation on jobs in workshop, jobs of directors.