Ortems Quintiq Business
Because ovens scheduling differs from regular machines scheduling, these specific resources seriously increase scheduling puzzles complexity.
Ovens-like resources come with lot of exotic constraints:
- they can process multiple operations at the same time
- a batch can often gather products with similar characteristics (like same metal alloy)
- the resource has a finite capacity
- the resource can or can not be opened during a running batch to add other products
Bad oven scheduling might have serious impacts on manufacturing performance:
- launching a batch at 12pm while work order X could have filled in the oven if we would have wait until 1pm has bad impact on oven occupancy and work order X lead time (as it now needs to wait until next batch of same temperature)
- synchronization between upstream operations, batching operation and downstream operation is key to ensure batch groupings are done in context of the end-to-end manufacturing process
- not grouping parts according to their characteristics (like alloy), the capacity of the resource nor the set up time between different batches could lead to poor resource occupancy, having a direct impact on productivity and products lead-time
DELMIA Planning & Optimization solutions manage these constraints enabling to optimize complex production environment.
If you want to know more about how to configure batch resources in DELMIA Planning & Optimization solutions, please don't hesitate to reach out to your Dassault Systemes contact or send an email to DELMIA.Ortems.CoE-SolutionConsulting@3ds.com.
