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Optessa
MLS generates high quality assembly line schedules. This will lead to
significant strategic benefits.
- Reduction
of order to delivery lead time
- Significant
reduction of manufacturing cost.
- Reduction of
finished product and WIP inventories.
- Fulfill each
order.
Significant
operational benefits will also be realized.
- Improved
FIFO conformance: reduced buffers of painted bodies
- Better
synchronization with suppliers and feeder lines
- Options
/ feature (“Heijunka”) smoothing
- Re-sequencing
with a bias to stability
- Improved accuracy and
reduced sequencing process times
The design of the
Optessa MLS
system is flexible which allows it to fit seamlessly into any assembly
line environment. It can be configured to map existing business
processes, interface with existing business systems and create a
‘look and feel’ convenient to the users of the
system.
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- It
is impossible to consider all rules and constraints.
- Custom developed solutions are hard-wired and inflexible.
- Manual sequencing creates inevitable error.
- Sequencing is a slow and tedious process
- Sequence output is inflexible.
- It is difficult to develop “what if” or
simulation scenarios to test different assumptions of capacity and
rules.
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- Complete
– model all rules and constraints and restrictions, from
highest to lowest priority.
- Powerful – the
multi-pass optimization engine is based on the simulated annealing
technique
- Effective – produces
an even quality solution – no bumps or imperfections
- High speed - final solutions can
be generated in minutes
- Flexible – output can
be readily adjusted with manual tools for
‘swapping’ and moving jobs within the sequence.
- Manageable –
“what-if” capability for easily testing
configurations or running simulation scenarios.
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Explore the Optessa Benefits
The
production sequence / schedule is a critical link between customers
and production, and it requires an effective balance between customer
service requirements and the need for efficient manufacturing.
- Optessa MLS uses
state-of-the-art optimization techniques
that are vastly superior to legacy or manual systems. As a result, the
system is much faster
and can be guaranteed to produce less
errors.
- Sequences generated by Optessa MLS will
help in the
reduction of
order-to-delivery cycle time. It lets the user quickly
re-sequence
to respond to market changes or production problems.
- It
considers a wide range of rules and constraints, and
therefore will lead to reduction
in the cost per vehicle. Thus for a
line with the daily capacity of 1,000 cars, the quantifiable annual
benefit can be in the millions of Dollars.
- With the
speed and flexibility and efficiency of Optessa
MLS, schedulers will need to spend less time generating
the sequence.
They will be able to
better manage the sequencing / scheduling process.
This will add to improved efficiency and reduction of time and cost per
vehicle.
- Optessa
MLS has a user-friendly,
web-based
interface, which will allow for improved communication of
data and
sequence output. The system can seamlessly fit into any existing
software environment.
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