Operations Management
Software
Job Shop Scheduling
Company: i2 Technologies, Inc.
Product: RHYTHM
Capabilities:
"RHYTHM’s advanced scheduling is the detailed synchronization of all
production operations to meet customer goals and optimize resources. It
determines the optimal sequence of jobs, taking into account a wide variety
of highly realistic and detailed constraints. Scheduling determines the
release schedule for the shop floor and generates detailed lists for order
execution."
"RHYTHM allows manufacturers to drive operations based on actual orders,
creating a pull-based production environment both in final assembly and
back through feeder lines, component plants, and suppliers. It understands
and weighs a broad range of constraints to generate accurate, executable
schedules, to synchronize the supply chain, and to improve schedule accuracy
and on-time delivery. By considering constraints in the factory, upstream
supplier constraints, and downstream logistic constraints, it facilitates
reliable supply chain relationships."
"RHYTHM uses an automatic schedule builder and global optimizer, based
on genetic algorithms, to quickly generate high-quality schedules from
complex data. Genetic algorithm technology allows RHYTHM to solve complex
scheduling scenarios with many different constraints that cannot be solved
with traditional optimizers. RHYTHM is also far more robust in the face
of changes to constraints, data, or business goals. It makes possible user-modifiable
constraints that can be changed easily without programming."
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Company: Paragon Management
Systems
Product: Paragon Reactive & Dynamic Scheduler
Capabilities:
"Paragon Management Systems, with corporate headquarters in Los Angeles
and sales and support offices worldwide, is the technology leader in advanced
planning, scheduling, and global supply chain management solutions. Paragon
provides state-of-the-art software, integration, and consulting services
to large manufacturers seeking to optimize their supply chain operations
and enhance their competitive performance."
"Paragon Reactive & Dynamic Scheduler:
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Provides detailed sequenced schedules that work in conjunction with your
shop floor schedule
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Identifies and eliminates bottlenecks
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Synchronizes production flow
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Allows you to evaluate alternative production scenarios and re-schedule
on the fly
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Bundled with industry-specific algorithms to ensure fast and accurate scheduling
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Links to MES systems for accurate dispatching and shop floor execution."
Customers:
"Paragon's customers are primarily Fortune 500-class companies including
Philips, Lucent, Lockheed-Martin, Milliken, Hitachi, Nortel, Toshiba, and
others. Many of Paragon's customers are multi-national with facilities
in several locations."
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Success
Stories
Company: Lanner Group
Product: PROVISA
Capabilities:
"Whenever the exact sequence of manufacturing is vital to achieving
your manufacturing goals a true finite capacity scheduler is required.
Provisa is a true finite capacity scheduling system , using proven simulation
based technology . It is customizable throughout from the database views
and dialogues, the logic used to create the sequences, to the planning
board views and the reports you require to manage your manufacturing. It
is also possible to generate what if scenarios directly from reports, this
makes Provisa one of the easiest systems to use whilst due to it's flexible
rule structure it is also one of the most powerful."
"PROVISA is a tool that is both visual and interactive. This enables
you to see the schedule as it is being created so you can stop the process
and modify the rules and model parameters to improve your schedule. When
you are faced with changes such as rush orders or machine breakdowns, PROVISA
can help you generate and save a number of alternative schedules. You can
then graphically compare key output parameters including total operating
costs, delivery performance, work in progress levels, machine utilisations
to help you select the schedule to use. The result is better decisions
that enhance your planning for tomorrow."
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