Industry Background

You are facing two different challenges: increasing your productivity and investing in emerging zones with a fast changing environment. The issues are:

• Shortening the life cycle of segments and products
• Hyper-segmentation strategy: production runs are increasingly shorter and the novelty effect is shortening
• Line renewal difficulties
• Strong pressure from manufacturers who pass their cost constraints on to original equipment manufacturers

Challenges for the T&M industry

• Simulate new products on production lines
• Anticipate and control large scale load fluctuations
• Coordinate production flows with critical supplies
• Synchronize multiple interdependent shops that have different jobs and processes
• Manage large quantities of data, bills of material and complex/alternative lines
• Manage multi-skilled laborers
• Improve relationships with suppliers

Optimize and Synchronize your Production Flows

• Analyze, anticipate and simulate in the medium-term
• Analyze the load/capacity balance for internal and external resources
• Stabilize shops due to decisions made in advance and not on an emergency basis
• Coordinate and synchronize production flows and critical supplies
• Have permanent visibility of the various shops
• Resource management (labor and machines) and better use of their versatility, for increased productivity
• Optimization of sequencing operations by workstation
• Synchronization and acceleration of production flows, for decreased cycle times
• Overall visibility thanks to links between WOs (semi-finished and finished products)
• Increased responsiveness to unforeseen production events and business disturbances
• Make schedules more reliable