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Planning and scheduling software for Plastics Processing and Packaging
Your industries' background
Your industries are connected with powerful industries such as the agroprocessing and automotive industries, as well as the perfume, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. You must constantly deal with increasingly tight lead times to satisfy your extremely demanding customers. The required level of competitiveness is always increasing to meet the requirements of the injection molding and packaging market.
Challenges for your industries:
- Show proven agility to innovate and create new products
- Create dynamic, responsive, demand-driven plans with short lead times at the best price
- Optimize resources in an increasingly precise manner
- Have high levels of productivity in an environment with low margins
- Be innovative, reliable and competitive
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows to:
- Make your schedule more reliable through visibility and better analysis of the load
- Manage demand using pull flows and quickly take into account unforeseen events and changes
- Manage your presses and molds
- Optimize sequencing based on several parameters (color test, material changeover, etc.)
- Manage personnel availability
- Synchronize suppliers' supply plans
- Manage your subcontractors
Key products for the plastics and packaging 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:
ALFAFLEX, GERFLOR, HEBERT, HEXCEL COMPOSITES, KNAUF, PAULSTRA, PPD Group, RENOLIT, UNION PLASTIC, VIBRACHOC, VOESTALPINE POLYNORM, …
Packaging:
AXILONE, BEATSON CLARK, CROWN, FIABILA SERVICES, LABLABO, OBRIST, PREGIS, RICHARD LALEU, SACCHIFICIO VENETO, SIPA, SPHERE, VERIPLAST, WIPAK, …
KNAUF INDUSTRIES:
- Improved productivity on the order of 1 day per month of productivity
- Improved service level estimated at 5%, controlled and reduced lead-time, improved responsiveness, increased planning horizon
- Significant reduction in the administrative planning load (administrative planning time cut by a factor of 8 for a more effective schedule over a twice as long planning horizon)
- Percent of fill close to 100%
ALLIBERT /LINPAC:
- Increase in productivity by reducing set up time
- Limiting emergencies and disruptions
- Visibility of the factory’s capacity and load at all workstations
- Optimization of workforce
- Decrease in raw materials, finished goods and WIP inventories
- Improvements in compliance with lead times
