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SIMATIC IT Preactor APS

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The Pharmaceutical, Life Science and Cosmetics sectors face a set of unique
demands that, result in an environment that is particularly challenging for
planning and scheduling.
Challenges include:
• Variation in demand – Seasonality, market trends and epidemics can all
cause large variations in demand. The planner needs to be in a position to
plan for many eventualities and respond easily to the current situation
• Short time-to-market and shelf life – It is essential to optimize the timing of
production to avoid waste
• Complex quality and traceability requirements – Regulatory agencies limit
the time between the production processes and require full batch
traceability
• Complexity of setup times and production processes – A mixture of discrete
and process production modes can result in complex planning and schedul-
ing requirements, often with contradicting goals for different parts of the
process. Production campaigns are important to minimize setup times, but
the planner must be alert to avoid stockouts
The SIMATIC IT Preactor product range of Advanced Planning and Scheduling
software is ideally suited to meet these demands.
SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Complexity of setup times – In the that in environments with variable
Scheduling current competitive environment it is demand, this information is there from
SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced essential to streamline the production the start of the process. Once the sys-
Scheduling is a finite capacity schedul- process to minimize setup times. tem has calculated the production
ing tool based on a detailed model of SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced required, the planner can easily visual-
the plant. It takes into account the Scheduling can help achieve these goals ize and interact with the result to see
actual availability of resources and by using complex scheduling algorithms how the varying demand should be
other constraints, such as tooling and and giving the planner the visibility to reflected in plans for production
materials, to produce a feasible sched- identify and react to issues. Whatever capacity.
ule. From this starting point the the scheduling pain points are, be they
Complexity of Production Process –
software can be used to increase costly changeover times, high inventory
SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Planning
throughput, decrease WIP and inven- or poor due date compliance, SIMATIC
software can support the generation of
tory, and increase resource utilization. IT Preactor Advanced Scheduling can be
production information at multiple
set up to minimize them.
levels of the Bill of Materials, and can
Challenges addressed by SIMATIC IT
Complexity of the production work for both Make-to-Stock and Make-
Preactor Advanced Scheduling
process – SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced to-Order environments. This means it is
Short shelf life – Even with careful
Scheduling software can model com- possible to plan production for complex
long-term planning, it is still possible to
plex manufacturing processes and, due mixed mode processes.
run into issues with production of short
to its flexibility, be set up to produce a
shelf life products if your short-term
schedule based on the reality of your
scheduling is not also set up to be
production environment. It doesn’t
aware of shelf life considerations.
matter if the complexity is in the pro-
SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced
cess routes of products or the
Scheduling can produce schedules that
constraints on the manufacturing
prioritize short shelf life products and
process; SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced
also flag potential shelf life issues for
Scheduling has the functionality to deal
the planner.
with it.
Variation in raw materials – SIMATIC IT
Preactor Advanced Scheduling products SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced
consider the availability of materials Planning
when creating the production schedule. SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Planning
In addition to this, it is possible to is a strategic decision-support tool,
define rules within the software that which combines forecasting and long-
control the way that materials are term orders with target stock levels and
consumed. This means that regardless bucketed resource capacities, to ensure
of whether there are sudden changes in that future demand is met. It does this
material availability or complex rules by creating a master production sched-
about the usage of different materials, ule, detailing when and how much of
those changes and rules can be mod- each SKU should be produced in order
eled to ensure that the scheduled to satisfy the demand. The software can
production reflects your needs. The take into account constraints such as
process of reassigning materials and shelf life and material requirements,
creating a new schedule to reflect the and can balance the load of production
changes can be carried out in minutes. requirements across multiple planning
resources.
Complex quality control
requirements – SIMATIC IT Preactor Siemens PLM Software
Challenges addressed by SIMATIC IT
Advanced Scheduling products can be www.siemens.com/plm
Preactor Advanced Planning
modeled as a hierarchal scheduling
Short shelf life – SIMATIC IT Preactor
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that are being generated when creating
define a time span when the quality
a master production schedule will be
control process is required. It can then
tailored to minimize waste from goods
pass this information to the quality
exceeding their shelf life and spoilage. © 2017 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management
control process application to handle
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the detailed scheduling before updating
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