Use case · Daily planning
Daily planning, with the reports made by themselves.
From the floor as it stands at five: a forecast, the cheapest plan of the day and two reports in the right inboxes, all before the first shift starts.
Morning plans usually start from yesterday's numbers. Here the model makes the plan from this morning's data.Every plant makes a plan each morning, usually from yesterday's numbers and someone's experience. Here the same model makes it from this morning's data: what your systems say, a forecast, a run, a plan, and two reports.
The floor
The week, as it stood at five
Read at five on Easter Sunday, the week explains itself: half the open order lines fall due on shut days, and the only welder is on leave all working week.Read at five on Easter Sunday, the line's week explains itself before anything is simulated: ten parts waiting, the assembly cell down for another day, 45 order lines open, half of them due on days the plant is shut, and the line's only welder on leave all working week. What was read is kept, so this morning can be run again exactly.
The forecast
What the week will bring
With a borrowed welder the line makes many times the parts, yet almost nothing due goes out on time. The week was lost before it began.The week is run twice from the floor as it stands: as it is, and with a welder borrowed from another line. Both are judged on what is due and delivered on time, which a line that delivers less cannot flatter. The borrowed welder makes many times the parts. And still almost nothing due goes out on time: what fell due on the shut days is late whatever happens. The week was lost before it began.
The plan
The cheapest plan, or the honest closest
The plan of the day keeps the cheapest combination you allow that meets the target. This week none does, so it shows the closest and what it costs.The plan of the day tries every combination of the levers you allow. Here those are who works which shift, how the lathe's queue is ordered, when the press is serviced and whether a second welder is borrowed. It tries them on the run from the floor and keeps the cheapest that meets the delivery target. This week none does, and the plan says so rather than pretend: it shows the closest, in words, and what it costs. Set a target the week can meet, and it finds the cheapest way to meet that.
Every morning, by itself
The computer's scheduler starts the morning; two reports arrive before the first shift. If a step fails, it stops there and no older report takes its place.On a working morning none of this is typed. The computer's own scheduler starts it at the time you set, and two reports reach the people they are for before the first shift, with every step written down. When a step fails, the morning stops there and the simulation leads hear at once; no report goes out from data not read that day, and no older one takes its place.
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What does your morning look like?
Tell us how the plan is made today, and from what. We will show you which of those steps the model would take over, and which it should not.
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