Industry
Paper and packaging industries are connected with powerful industries such as the agro processing and automotive industries, as well as the perfume, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. You must constantly deal with increasingly tight lead times to satisfy your extremely demanding customers. The required level of competitiveness is always increasing to meet the requirements of the market.
Issues
- Show proven agility to innovate and create new products
- Create dynamic, responsive, demand-driven plans with short lead times at the best price
- Optimize resources in an increasingly precise manner
- Have high levels of productivity in an environment with low margins
- Be innovative, reliable and competitive
Solution
Many manufacturers would like to move towards automation systems that provide real-time production control and enable mass customization. We relate our experience in applying a model-based approach to real-time planning, scheduling, and control in a high-speed, parallel manufacturing system. In particular, we consider modular(distributed) production planning systems, a complex domain with dynamic and real-time constraints. Our software can autonomously create and execute production plans at the individual unit level as job requests arrive, running several jobs simultaneously and re-planning in real-time when machines fail or orders are adjusted.
ICRON optimizes and synchronizes your production flows to:
- Make your schedule more reliable through visibility and better analysis of the load
- Manage demand using pull flows and quickly take into account unforeseen events and changes
- Manage your presses and molds
- Optimize sequencing based on several parameters (color test, material changeover, etc.)
- Manage personnel availability
- Synchronize suppliers' supply plans
- Manage your subcontractors
Based on a unique enterprise model, and combined with the technological enablers of ICRON, ICRON solution is the only enterprise planning system, which supports:
- Distributed plan synchronization between business units within an enterprise, or between suppliers and manufacturers;
- Definition of planning logic based on customer requirements using algorithmic templates of ICRON GSAMS;
- Online responsive scheduling of shop-floor activities