Address disrupted supply chains and maintain efficiency with flexible manufacturing planning

Production planning with gbo Datacompdisrupted supply chains and short-term personnel bottlenecks due to lockdown or quarantine require flexible responses in companies. Excel quickly reaches its limits here. Modern and efficient planning tools are more in demand than ever if OEE is to be maintained. gbo datacomp uses MES with an integrated production control center to plan in a resource-efficient way. Augsburg, 24.11.21 “Time and again, we also come across Excel as a planning tool in manufacturing in companies. Employees spend many hours manually entering corrections and checking them,” begins Michael Möller, managing director of gbo datacomp. The effort is high even when it comes to planning for manufacturing parts. As a result, the high expenditure means that many companies do not plan on a daily basis but on a weekly basis. The inaccuracy is correspondingly high and flexibility is virtually non-existent. In times of disrupted supply chains and short-term reactions, including in terms of personnel deployment, this is too inflexible and economically threatening.” Companies must be able to change their production planning at short notice to take account of the current situation,” explains Möller. Scarce material resources in particular require short-term plan changes in order to be able to continue manufacturing economically. Flexibility is the top priority in the current situation. And this is exactly where modern MES At how BiSoftMes. Using a graphical production control center, you are able to reschedule the occupancy of machines, systems, workstations and all other planning-relevant production units at the push of a button. The required plans are based on company-specific settings, which can be mapped in BiSoftMES in order to ensure the best possible utilization in each case. Planning is one thing, monitoring production processes is another. The production control center in BiSoftMES enables responsible employees to keep an eye on everything online. Unplanned disruptions can be identified immediately. This also applies to the availability of materials and personnel. If faults become apparent, rescheduling can be carried out automatically. Of course, set-up times are also taken into account here. Even complex and staggered work process sequences can be replanned without contradiction. Planning can also be simulated. Simulations are carried out against limited capacities. For this purpose, orders, even in batch sizes over several shifts with target dates and priorities, are imported from the ERP. All individually defined rules, e.g. on resource alternatives, personnel, tools, but also on multi-machine operation, set-up optimization or shuttle operation, are included. The complexity is drastically reduced and the planner can intervene if necessary. Planning quality is determined by feedback data from production. Flexible planning is essential today more than ever, modern tools accompany production, make production transparent and responsive.Photo caption: Production planning in BiSoftMes