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Producers must cope with multiple and more complex processes, a growing number of SKUs, and the need to generate products more quickly and at a lower cost. To meet those requirements, companies must precisely schedule the technology, people, and processes of their production environment.
The i2 Solution: i2 Production Scheduler
i2 Production Scheduler is designed to increase throughput in a constrained manufacturing facility, while reducing costs and optimizing the use of existing resources. Production Scheduler can address the granular scheduling challenge at the factory level, and transmit this detailed schedule to the downstream execution system or to the upstream planning system.
Production Scheduler is designed to provide optimization-based scheduling, shop-floor synchronization, reactive re-scheduling, and complete reporting and analytics.
Key capabilities of i2 Production Scheduler can include:
- Creation, revision, and management of manufacturing schedules
- Modeling of manufacturing constraints
- Transmittal of scheduling data to upstream or downstream systems
- Real-time scheduling decision support
- Ability to customize display data to meet user needs
- Management of complex, multi-SKU production environments
Benefits of i2 Production Scheduler can include:
- Increased throughput and on-time performance
- Reduced scheduling cycle times
- Minimized setups, changeovers, work in process, and inventory costs
- Maximized equipment productivity
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