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Planning and scheduling software for Medical Industry
Challenges for the medical industry
- Growing market with increasing variation
- Short-term made-to-order production and long-term need for visibility based on forecasts
- Complex production, with many operations - production bottlenecks that shift based on the product mix
- Need for more flexibility by reducing production cycle times
- Highly technical production – need for skilled personnel
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows
ORTEMS MP-SRP provides the following solutions:
- Detailed planning of capacities and materials in the same module
- Finite and infinite capacity planning (alert levels)
- Continuous time planning/Load analysis by time bucket (day/week/month)
- Modelling of resources, processes, materials and constraints
ORTEMS PS-SRP also provides:
- Precise analyses of the short-term schedule in detailed views
- Constraint optimization thanks to our advanced scheduling engines
- Reductions in changeovers on bottleneck machines
- Responsiveness thanks to the schedule's multiple interactive modification functions
ORTEMS software takes into account the specific requirements of the medical industry:
- A mix of made-to-order and made-to-stock production
- Long and complex production processes
- Frequent new product introductions
- Multiple partners (sister factories, subcontractors and suppliers)
- Strong, short-term scheduling impact (delays, unforeseen production events, demand fluctuations, etc.)
Additionally:
- Gains achieved with ORTEMS MP-SRP are:
- Improvement in customer service rate
- Rapid answer for customer
- Detailed visibility of the production facility's load and capacity
- Elimination of bottlenecks
- Reduction in raw materials inventories and WIP
- Time savings during planning
- In addition, ORTEMS PS-SRP provide the following gains:
- Decrease in changeover times - increased productivity with the same capital investment
- Reduction in cycle and wait times
- Decrease in production costs
- Decrease in labor costs
- And more generally, our software suite provides:
- A precise planning enabling stable production and decrease in variability
- Implementing better planning practices
ORTEMS success stories:
SANOFI-AVENTIS:
- 20% reduction in inventories
- Improvement in customer service rate: lead time simulation in less than one hour
- One month reduction in the new product launch cycle
- Reliability of production commitments communicated to subsidiaries via the Group Intranet
FAMAR:
- 90% increase in customer service rate
- Schedule communication: updated everyday for 100 people on their workstations
- Joint, approved rules that enable sharing a short-/medium-term schedule to have optimal Internal and External Customer Service (compliance with the schedule).
- Solution integrated into the BPCS planning process
- Control over all finite capacity production flows
MSD:
- 50% time savings on schedule creation
- Schedule reliability because constraints are automatically taken into account
- Extension of the planning horizon to 2 weeks
- Better visibility, which enables improving:
- anticipation of future business
- identification of the critical path
