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Planning and scheduling software for Metallurgy
Your industries' background
Like most suppliers of raw
materials and energy, the metallurgy industry plays a key role in today's global economy. The effects of consolidation and specialization have focused the market on several major stakeholders while leaving room for a multitude of companies in niche markets. Whether they are seeking economies of scale in a mass market or differentiation in a highly competitive market, they all need to:
- Control and reduce lead times
- Optimize operating costs
- Achieve optimum resource use
- Synchronize production flows
Challenges for your industry:
- Availability of raw materials
- Heavy equipment, with complex sequence constraints
- Limited number of resources
- Production grouping on equipment
- Large volume of complex data
- Production diversification as flows progress
- Management of bills of material and alternative lines
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows to:
- Anticipate demand and create supply plans
- Reduce inventories of raw materials and semi-finished goods
- Help create production runs and increase the lines' productivity: optimize production cycles
- Dynamically assign orders to production runs
- Control manufacturing lead times
- Improve visibility of flows, and control over lead times
- Synchronize actions in a continual process
Key products for the Metallurgy industry:
ORTEMS Manufacturing Planner (MP)
ORTEMS Manufacturing Planner is the next generation in production planning tools that enable optimizing MPS and Production Planning.
ORTEMS Synchronized Resource Planner (SRP)
ORTEMS Synchronized Resource Planner provides innovative technology to optimize the MRP process.
ORTEMS Production Scheduler (PS)
ORTEMS Production Scheduler is a scheduling solution that provides a detailed implementation schedule and short-term reactivity while respecting the constraints of each industry.
Advantages:
- Decrease in cycle times (up to 50%)
- Reduction in inventories and WIP
- Improvement in customer service rate (up to 50%)
- Increase in productivity (up to 20%)
- 50% decrease in production planning preparation time
- Fast ROI
ORTEMS success stories:
INDUSTEEL Groupe Arcellor Mittal:
- 25% reduction in inventories and wait times
- 20% increase in customer service
