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Capabilities of Modern APS Software

Capabilities of APS software have advanced enormously since their start in the 1990s, significantly reducing the burden of implementation and enhancing ROI. These days competitive APS solutions are expected to support the following capabilities to ensure that the solution is applicable to evolving user needs.

Constraint modeling

  • Furnace constraints
  • Time constraint MAX (Shelf life)
  • Resource lock
  • Pegging of sales, manufacturing and purchase orders
  • Overlapping processes with N-to-N pegging
  • Specifying non-linear required material quantity by an expression
  • Specifying non-linear production times by an expression
  • Specifying setup times by an expression
  • External setups

Scheduling logic

  • Adjusting for discrepancies between forecast and firm sales orders
  • Issuing purchase orders based on finite-capacity manufacturing plan
  • Optimization that balances setup minimization with on-time deliveries
  • Optimization across multiple processes
  • Rough and detailed scheduling by time period
  • Scheduling speed linear with data size

Usability

  • Excel-like data editing within application
  • Copy and pasting data between applications
  • Dragging and dropping operations on the Gantt chart
  • Ad-hoc sorting and filtering of tables and charts
  • Ad-hoc drilldown on charts and graphs
  • Composite charts
  • Undo/redo

Extensibility

  • Safe customization via plug-ins
  • Configurable import and export formats
  • Import/export to relational database
  • Import/export to text file
  • Custom tables and custom properties
  • Custom screens using HTML or XML
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