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For years manufacturers have been trying to tame the shop floor. The biggest
hurdle is the state of flux and unpredictability in a real-time manufacturing
environment. Scheduling, data capture, monitoring and quality tools are
widely available, yet the factory manager can never be certain of exerting
total control over the process without having a complete, real-time picture
of what's happening on the floor.
SYSPRO APS is a software solution dedicated to the factory floor. It
provides management with a comprehensive, real-time view of the shop floor
in any dynamic manufacturing environment. SYSPRO APS provides a graphical
image of the shop floor in real-time and measures productivity at the
closest point to manufacture, as it happens - not after the event.
SYSPRO APS has been created as a set of integrated modules that may be
tailored to a factory's individual requirements.
Factory Planner assists users in planning workload against available capacity.
Capacity is derived from the number of available machines and its working
hours. Load is calculated using the standard structures and routes provided
by our ERP system.
Cell Scheduler allows each manufacturing cell to be scheduled independently
with user-defined rules for optimizing and viewing work in the cell. Gantt
charts show a time-based view of scheduled operations for the machines
in each particular cell. Additional requirements for resources such as
operators, setters and tools are shown in parallel with the Gantt chart
when calculating the schedule. The Gantt chart is "live" and
available for the "drag-and-drop" of jobs in time and between
compatible machines. Should changes in demand or resources occur, they
can be immediately reflected in the schedule. The schedules are in real-time
with progress constantly reported from the shop floor so issues can be
resolved immediately.
Progress Tracker is a touch-screen compatible, graphical shop floor application
that supplies operators with current work-to list. It also supplies a
list of required materials and any text or diagrams associated with each
job. The simple button-driven interface is simple to use. Jobs may be
started, stopped, completed (wholly or in part), have scrap recorded and
additional operators booked to them as necessary. The work-to list refreshes
every few seconds to include new jobs or ones that have become available
from upstream processes.
SYSPRO APS integrates the recording of quality parameters with the recording
of progress data. Quality data items to be recorded are user-defined and
may be related to a machine, product, customer, or collected upon manual
selection. The collected data is stored in a database that can be queried
directly or via an analysis tool.
SYSPRO APS provides instant checks for trends and "blips" in
the collected data and can be configured to send warnings to other users
when processes are getting out of the tolerance range..
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