Multiple Approach Plant Scheduling (MAPS)
Feature Comparison Page Five Levels Exposition
(previously named AmexPlan Extrusion Plant Scheduling)
Click on:Press Load Mastermind Truckloads Promises
Sales, scheduling, plant management, purchasing, and general mangement use AmexPlan extensively. It provides services and tools that support the scheduling workflow, managing capacity, and commiting to new order due dates.
delivery promises using order backlogs and schedules, and by providing production
with a scheduling capability that supports their efforts to meet promised dates.
Plan Generate a complete production plan and schedule based upon firm and forecast
orders, extrude dates based on time needed for fabrication steps, and management's
rules and parameters.
Manage Provide information to management on workloads, actual completion of scheduled
items, schedule exceptions, and projected delays. Provide displays that allow
authorized persons to reschedule orders as needed.
Inform Provide load displays, order and performance statistics in various formats as needed
to support various user needs.
Automation Provide tools for press scheduling and rescheduling. Automatically print a billet
requirements plan.
Calculate Calculate extrude dates based on time needed for fabrication steps.
Reschedule Provide displays that allow authorized persons to reschedule orders as needed.
Press
Load and Capacity
Objective
Allow
the viewer to evaluate the extent to which scheduled sales orders are filling
scheduled
capacity
on each press and in total, for carryover, this week, and future weeks.
Provide a
smooth
flowing graph with easy to interpret light and dark colors.
Color
Scheme
Each
press has a dark color representing planned pounds and a light color for
capacity available
for
new or rescheduled orders. All 8 bands add up to total plant extrusion
capacity for each
week.
Press 1=Purple 2=Blue 3=Green
4=Brown
Interpretation
In
a typical load pattern, dark sales order colors predominate in nearby weeks,
and light FSC
colors
predominate in weeks farther into the future. Large FSC areas eventually
get filled with
new
orders or work schedules are reduced.
Display
Options
Select
five alternate chart styles (top left). Select Load only, Capacity
only, or both (options at
top
right). "Yes" to both shows load pounds layered with free scheduled
capacity ("FSC" or
unused
capacity).
Carryover
Column
The
first column in the chart represents all the pounds on open sales orders
that are remaining to
be
extruded with a Plan Date prior to "Beginning Monday". Capacity is zero,
as these pounds
must
be extruded in the current or future weeks.
Manage
Extrusion Mill Schedule
Purpose
Provide
a powerful analysis and replanning utility for complete control over the
plant schedule. Display weekly loads for selected departments and sales
order groupings. Reschedule selected groups as directed. Review
prior schemas.
Schedule
MasterMind Screen
Scheme
number and description are at the top. Four order processing groups
ABCD may be specified for display. Date range may be specified.
Three relevant departments may be chosen and the timing of order groups
ABCD arranged into a feasible solution.
Department
load charts
Display
load charts for three critical departments. Order groups ABCDE are shown
in color for each week of the time span being planned. After rearranging
the schedule to fit these three, choose other related departments to check
for unexpected overloads.
Rearranging
the schedule
Order
group pounds/hours in A,B,C, or D may be moved forward or back any number
of weeks to smooth out overloads or adjust to production and marketing
realities. Choose an ABCD line, click < or . Or enter the +- number
of weeks in th Move column.
Department
capacity
The
dark blue line on each chart is the processing capacity of each department
in pounds or hours. It is the sum of the daily hours scheduled(see
Work Schedule menu) for each department times their average pounds/hour
shown in the Department Areas table.
Actually
Reschedule
(Currently
disabled in item view screen) Once the schedule is rearranged in a feasible
load pattern, the planned processing date for each department in each order
in the selected group may be changed by clicking on [Actually Reschedule].
Daily Truck Load Schedule
This display is for all users to review the orders that are
scheduled to be loaded on each planned truck load. For any loading
date, shows complete information about the load and about each order item,
and whether the item is already oaded.
Truck Load Scheduling
AmexPlan supports truck load scheduling and management by processing
and maintaining a complete schedule of customer orders that are to be loaded
on each planned truckload (or LTL). AmexOrder looks into AmexPlan
to check or available extrusion capacity
Disruptive events
If a die plugs or breaks, you can immediately review the rest
of the load the die was to be a part of and determine whether the load
should go without the die, or delay the load. If needed, AmexPlan
can reschedule all orders on the load.
Workload and capcity
AmexPlan treats each load zone as a department, tracking its
daily capacity and order processing assignments. LTL has daily capacity
of 500,000 lbs. The Dallas load zone using our truck has a 40,000
pound capacity every Wednesday.
Promise Date Evaluation during
Order Entry
AmexOrder is integrated with CSE/MAPS and always displays how the order
being entered will fit into the schedule. In addition, CSE/MAPS has
a utility that, for a proposed customer order, calculates the hours required
to produce it and displays a scheudle showing dates the order may potentilally
be run through the factory during the coming 35 days, considering current
work loads.
