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ImFactory – an environment of solutions for a production organization, which includes both methods of improving the organization as well as tools and IT systems supporting them, allowing for the direction of changes in a developing enterprise.
ImPlan will enable to implement efficient and transparent production planning and scheduling in your company.
ImPlan - is a comprehensive solution based on standard APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) software as well as process optimization and strengthening team competences.
ImPlan - is a comprehensive solution based on standard APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) software as well as process optimization and strengthening team competences.
ImPlan will allow to combine best practices in the area of tools, processes and people in your company, improving the implementation of strategic assumptions for production by effectively transferring them to the production schedule.
As part of the ImPlan solution, we can support this level by helping to improve the efficiency of the above-mentioned processes and implementing "what if" scenario analyzes.
ImPlan enables efficient balancing of sales needs and operational capabilities of production. ImPlan supports the implementation of production efficiency indicators, helps to monitor inventory while balancing the load on individual operational resources, including the generation of purchasing needs and ensures transparency of planning information.
ImPlan - following the spirit of Industry 4.0 – it combines in a unique way the improvement of planning processes, building of employee competences and providing precise APS tools, enabling permanent improvement of planning processes in the organization, both at the management, planning and scheduling levels.
As part of ImPlan, we offer to develop or revise maps of planning processes together with the representatives of the user company, allowing for increasing the efficiency of these processes.
ImPlan offers a package of workshops and training courses aimed at gathering experience and knowledge existing in the organization, joint development of target solutions taking into account current trends in the supply chain and developing the competences of participants in planning processes at all levels of the organization.
Thanks to the visualization of production schedules - with the use of Gantt charts - ImPlan enables easy verification of the duration of individual operations, order fulfillment dates, resource availability, priorities and existing threats to plan implementation. The planner can modify the schedules using a graphical interface - by moving individual operations on the Gantt chart - and ImPlan in the background makes sure that the resulting schedule is feasible. Transparency in ImPlan is the availability of schedules in their most current version in real time for all interested parties.
ImPlan enables precise resource planning and their effective assignment to specific operations, orders or projects that we want to plan. The key resources analyzed within ImPlan are machines, devices and tools, employees with their competences, estimated production costs and material stocks - the optimal levels are defined during workshop works.
Thanks to the possibility of creating many scheduling scenarios for orders from clients in ImPlan, it is possible - in accordance with the spirit of Industry 4.0 - to analyze them ("what if") depending on the adopted priorities and business goals and, consequently, to choose the most optimal one.
Planner The basis of the software. Main application, planner interface. This is where the plans are made and visualized in the form of Gantt.
Operator
Web access, where the operator has access to the list of orders for a given position and from which he can report the start, progress and completion of work.
Viewer
Read-Only planner interface. Provides a preview of the plan, but does not allow to edit it.
Maintenance & Technical Assistance Contract (compulsory during the first year)
Batch Prepared mainly for dairy processing, the batch module allows you to divide orders into production batches depending on the capacity of the tanks and the size of transport.
Advanced It enables to solve advanced scheduling problems, taking into account additional factors such as prerequisites, retooling or implementation time.
Material It allows to set up warehouses and define materials. The materials are used in the BOM. A BOM can be considered as a production plan constraint.
Project
This module enables to group multiple orders and corresponding production orders into one project, which makes scheduling and monitoring of the group as a whole easier.
Integration It enables integration of the software with external software such as ERP, SAP or MES. It includes plugins that enable data exchange via XML, SQL, CSV or WebService.
APS-class software has become a necessity in modern production organizations due to customer demand for increasing product range and fast delivery combined with pressure to reduce costs.
ImPlan can be quickly integrated with ERP / MRP software to fill the gaps in these systems (typically there is a lack of flexibility and accuracy in planning and scheduling).
ImPlan helps save planners time, while providing greater flexibility to update constantly changing priorities, production schedules and inventory levels.
Typical benefits of implementing APS - ImPlan application:
A radical reduction in the time of preparing a production schedule compared to the most frequently used tool, i.e. spreadsheets.
Instead of processing data (input, supplementation), the planner obtains time to analyze various schedule scenarios.
Full transparency of data, information and decisions in planning processes.
Better timeliness of deliveries, reduction of stocks, higher production efficiency thanks to the optimization of the use of bottlenecks.
Increasing the competence of planners.
Reduction of the implementation time
The ImPlan solution is based on the ROB-EX Scheduler software of the Danish company ROB-EX A / S, which we represent in Poland. The software has been developed for 18 years and has about 400 implementations worldwide. ImPlan is not only proven software, but also the possibility of using a number of optional services that allow to define or improve planning and scheduling processes in the company.
Planning is the heart of a production organization.
This is where all information is concentrated, here decision-makers direct their steps when the organization faces problems. Nowadays, with growing customer requirements, when we want to improve and optimize our operations, the key is to increase the planning efficiency. It is not possible without process optimization, building employee competencies and the support of effective tools.
Rozwiązanie ImPlan opiera się o oprogramowanie ROB-EX Scheduler duńskiej firmy ROB-EX A/S, którą reprezentujemy w Polsce.
Oprogramowanie jest rozwijane od 18 lat i ma ok. 400 wdrożeń na świecie. ImPlan to nie tylko sprawdzone oprogramowanie ale także możliwość skorzystania z szeregu opcjonalnych usług pozwalających na zdefiniowanie lub doskonalenie procesów planowania i harmonogramowania w firmie.
Rozwiązanie ImPlan opiera się o oprogramowanie ROB-EX Scheduler duńskiej firmy ROB-EX A/S, którą reprezentujemy w Polsce.
Oprogramowanie jest rozwijane od 18 lat i ma ok. 400 wdrożeń na świecie. ImPlan to nie tylko sprawdzone oprogramowanie ale także możliwość skorzystania z szeregu opcjonalnych usług pozwalających na zdefiniowanie lub doskonalenie procesów planowania i harmonogramowania w firmie.
The training is intended for people involved in planning, in particular production scheduling, and people who are just starting their path with these issues. Participants will learn about the role of planning and scheduling in the enterprise as well as the role of the tools themselves and their basic functionality.
The training covers the key issues related to the functioning of planning and scheduling in the company's Supply Chain - roles, needs, tasks and how the software can support these challenges.
Among the functional modules developed during the classes, the following can be distinguished:
The training focuses on basic functionalities and operating strategies to provide a basic overview through the range of possibilities.
The training covers the issues of advanced mechanisms for handling planning processes and preparation of schedule from the order level to shipment marking. It is intended for people who have undergone basic training and have some knowledge of planning processes.
The training covers issues related to the so-called advanced scheduling, which includes logistic elements, material management, formulation, etc.
It touches upon topics related to the entire course of the Supply Chain, and even to the implementation of production and the methods of its registration for planning purposes.
The scope of the training includes:
The aim of the training is to familiarize participants with the issues related to planning and scheduling production according to the ERP model. During it, participants will acquire practical skills in the scope of processes and tools of an effective Operational Planning Model.
The aim of the training is to familiarize participants with the concept of Management by Facts and the use of indicators to monitor production efficiency and the benefits for the organization of implementing such solutions. In addition, solutions that enable more effective and faster collection of production data as part of the digitization concept in Industry 4.0 will be discussed.
The environment of solutions for a production organization, which includes both organizational improvement methods and IT tools and systems that support them, allowing to direct changes in the developing enterprise.
An IT indicator analytical and reporting system, as well as a set of trainings and workshops supporting the preparation and implementation of changes in the organization, consisting in the implementation and digitization (or optimization of the existing) indicator system.
The decision process in a production organization should be standardized in such a way that the right and necessary information is always at hand, and the effectiveness and efficiency of key decisions is even higher.
Managing by facts is a mechanism for moving from data through information to operational knowledge, and consequently to more effective management through more effective decisions.
Managing by facts allows successively moving away from the intuitive action model to the model of examining the nature of the phenomenon and the problem, correctly describing it and applying (making decision) based on knowledge.
Read moreThe drive to learn about the processes in the company is based on collected data, obtained information and knowledge, not only on the intuition of managers.
Effective change of organization towards one that consciously and maturely uses management through facts requires the development of 5 areas: proper collection and processing of reliable data, analysis, which allows processing raw data into useful information, knowledge management, organizing decisions, establishing control procedures of improvement.
Successful implementation of management by facts are 5 steps that provide a logical cycle of action and guarantee the best results in process management.
Read moreWe would like to encourage everybody to view the webinar "Time is money. How to manage through facts and achieve operational mastery", which took place on 25th October 2018. You will learn from the recording:
The organizer of the webinar was "How to do IT" - a business and technology think tank appointed by the publisher of the Harvard Business Review Polska magazine.
Read moreDla 90% organizacji efektywne Planowanie w Łańcuchu Dostaw jest priorytetowym celem biznesowym, któremu dedykowane są lub będą w najbliższej przyszłości posiadane zasoby.
Kryterium osiągnięcia sukcesu w Planowaniu Produkcji jest zaangażowanie wielu obszarów w organizacji i optymalizacja procesów podporządkowana jednemu spójnemu celowi.
Korzyści płynące z dobrego planowania są ogromne. Szacuje się, że każda minuta poświęcona na planowanie pozwala zaoszczędzić dziesięć minut pracy. (Brian Tracy)
Tak jak w każdym procesie, również w produkcji potrzebny jest plan, który wprowadzi do istniejącego chaosu odrobinę porządku i pozwoli ułożyć go w logiczny ciąg zdarzeń.
MES Solutions is a business unit within the ASTOR Group operating on the basis of Wonderware and Rob-EX software, which offers ready-made IT solutions and creates customized solutions. MES Solutions coordinates projects based on experience and many years of practice.
Moreover, it operates with the involvement of integrators and substantive partners such as: Entra Group, which is a consulting company that helps clients around the world to transform the operational areas of their organization.
The main areas of activity are planning and forecasting, production, maintenance, storage and transport. MES Solutions specializes in assessing the effectiveness of the organization, on the basis of which it supports clients in implementing the necessary solutions and tools in the field of World Class Operations.
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