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Pre-planning in single-part manufacturing
Quickly evaluate orders with pre-planning software
It's a fact: You are often pressed by deadlines and competition in the die manufacturing industry, and being able to make quick decisions is an important factor in winning orders. The advantage goes to whoever can realistically include their current resources and capacities in the decision—at the click of a button. With pre-planning software, manufacturing planners can identify possible overloads in advance and place external orders in time, thus increasing profitability. What if you could accept a spontaneous order and complete it on schedule? It's all possible—even in single-part manufacturing.
ProLeiS MES lets you check the feasibility of order inquiries: It quickly provides a reliable basis for decision-making using current data based on your company's parameters.
The project manager uses pre-planning tools to check the required resources, budget, outsourcing, and capacity utilization. With just a few clicks, the software generates graphical overviews that help you realistically manage inquiries.
Pre-planning: Make or buy?
Weigh risks and make confident decisions with pre-planning software
ProLeiS MES software supports your decision-making process. You can use the software in the pre-planning process to simulate how outsourcing manufacturing will affect your capacities. You will get an overview of the probable capacity utilization, enabling you to compare different scenarios and to determine whether you need to outsource—either the entire order, or only parts of individual work packages.
You can easily decide
- whether you need to outsource manufacturing,
- which parts will be outsourced and
- whether the outsourcing fits into your planning.
More information from Fabian Schmittlein of Koller Formenbau GmbH:
SimpleSee current capacities at the click of a button • Get support for quick decisions • Create project flow using the drag-and-drop interfaceAutomatedRealistically check inquiries • Simulate outsourcing • Work with templatesSafeDetect potential overloads in advance • Evaluations make future forecasts more precise.Realistically plan inquiries in ongoing operation
You receive an inquiry for three new die sets. Because your manufacturing capacity is not currently being fully utilized, your gut tells you there should be sufficient capacity to complete this order on time. The ProLeiS pre-planning tool keeps you on the safe side: The MES software integrates the new manufacturing projects into existing planning in the best possible way. The result indicates that the order will cause overloads. With just a few clicks, the software lets you simulate different scenarios to see if you can still accept the order.
Realistically schedule capacity: Manufacturing capacity isn't fully utilized by current orders (solid color bars). ProLeiS displays a realistic distribution of new orders across your resources at the click of a button to enable the best possible use of capacity.
Scenario 1: The request for 3 new die sets (transparent bars) results in an overload. Solution: Outsourcing can be considered to meet the planned delivery date in calendar week 32. You can also use ProLeiS simulations to determine whether outsourcing is cost-effective and fits with your planning.
Scenario 2: You try to manage the overload with short-term overtime hours. Here as well, internal capacity is not enough for delivery in calendar week 32. Solution: You outsource parts of the order for the overtime hours. The software simulation can also be used to determine what can be outsourced without causing problems.
Scenario 3: The delivery deadline is postponed to calendar week 34. ProLeiS automatically divides up the order and integrates it into the current manufacturing schedule. You can accept the order and complete it without excessive planning effort.
Rapid pre-planning calculation
Easy budget planning with realistic capacity allocation
- Costing based on completed projects
- Enter the planned total budget as a monetary value or on an hourly basis
- Create project flow using the drag-and-drop interface with milestones and templates
- Assign hourly requirements to individual work packages, machine groups, and teams
- ProLeiS determines capacity utilization with a realistic capacity profile.
- This provides a basis for an automatic comparison with current manufacturing orders.
Budget and capacity planning in the ProLeiS pre-planning tool allow you to quickly and realistically determine whether you have sufficient resources available. You can see whether the requested project can be completed by the required delivery date and impress your customers with on-time delivery.
ProLeiS realistically distributes capacity utilization at the click of a button.Precise pre-planning based on empirical data in digital form
The more empirical data you gather, the more precise your planning will be
Digitally stored knowledge from experience is valuable; use detailed costing based on your company’s history. The more you work with ProLeiS, the more empirical data it collects for you. The MES learns from your completed projects: You receive increasingly detailed capacity profiles for pre-planning from actual confirmed data. The software's pre-planning tool uses these values as a basis for more accurate calculation results. This helps you avoid bidding too low, suffering financial losses and missing deadlines—or bidding too high and having orders rejected. You'll improve your pre-planning templates with every order implemented in the ProLeiS software.
Prepare detailed costing based on assemblies:
- Create pre-planning templates based on types of tools
- Determine external costs and internal expenditures
- Evaluate internal work using calculated total hourly rates
- Automatically calculate capacity requirements and capacity distribution
- Use the final overview as the basis for decision-making
Digitally stored knowledge is always accessible, even if employees are absent.
Comparing planned values against actual data: With feedback from previous similar orders, you can compare the required time against the estimated time from pre-planning and manufacturing planning and use the results for more precise pre-planning.
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