A manufacturer with several plants in Europe planned production in Excel and linked it to orders by hand. On the MobileSYSTEM platform, we built planning that generates production-plan variants, lets them be compared and distributes the selected plan to the team.
MobileSYSTEM CORE computing core with production rules
Plan variants are created automatically according to production rules, not by hand in a spreadsheet.
Planning calendar with mandatory breaks
The calendar works with orders, product seasonality and mandatory breaks, so the plan also accounts for time when nothing is produced.
Automatic order assignment
Orders are assigned to the plan automatically, removing the manual linking of production to orders.
A customer with several manufacturing plants in Europe wanted to optimise processes and implement production planning with an emphasis on digital automation.
It faced inefficient use of production lines, Excel planning, manual connection of production to orders, fragmented warehouse records and limited team visibility of conflicts and results.
After analysing production, we mapped the information flows from suppliers, logistics and purchasing, then accounted for orders and product seasonality in the planning calendar.
On the modular MobileSYSTEM platform, we created a calendar with automatically generated plan variants, an environment for comparing them and an operations module that distributes the selected production plan to participating employees.
Instead of one manually maintained plan, production now chooses from several automatically prepared variants.
The production plan for several plants was built in Excel, and orders were assigned to production by hand. Lines were not used efficiently, warehouse records were fragmented and the team had only limited visibility of plan conflicts and production results.
The planning calendar automatically generates plan variants based on production rules, orders and product seasonality. These are compared in VirtualBOX and the most suitable one is selected. The operations module then distributes the selected plan to the employees involved in production, so everyone works with the same version.
Production planning combines MobileSYSTEM CORE, a planning calendar, VirtualBOX and an operations module. Together they create, compare and share alternative production-plan variants.
Production-plan variants are generated automatically by the planning calendar on top of the MobileSYSTEM CORE computing core, which applies the production rules. Orders, product seasonality and mandatory breaks feed into the calculation. The resulting variants are compared in VirtualBOX, a separate environment designed for comparing them, and the selected variant then serves as the production plan.
When analysing production, we mapped the information flows from suppliers, logistics and purchasing. The planning calendar then takes account of orders, product seasonality and mandatory breaks, and the computing core applies the production rules. The aim was to reflect in the plan the constraints relating to resources, warehouses, logistics and products, which had previously sat in separate spreadsheets and records.
The selected production plan is distributed to participating employees by an operations module built on the MobileSYSTEM platform. The plan therefore no longer circulates in Excel, and everyone involved works with the same version. This also addresses the original problem of the team having only limited visibility of plan conflicts and production results.
The planning calendar is the main planning tool. It takes account of orders, product seasonality and mandatory breaks, and orders are assigned to it automatically. Plan variants are created on top of the calendar and compared in VirtualBOX, and the selected variant is passed from it to the operations module, which distributes it to the manufacturing team.