With the expansion of overseas manufacturing, supply chains span multiple countries and areas. It is not unusual that Japanese manufacturing companies use overseas sourcing, production and selling. The role of overseas plants is changing from processing from export-oriented manufacturing into a supply base to local market. Exploring the regional market needs and providing products just in time when the market needs has become a major point that affects corporate value in the […]

Shifting manufacturing plants to overseas, Supply Chain nowadays has become complicated across several regions/countries. It’s considered as common practice that Japanese-oriented manufacturing company purchases material/parts from overseas supplier and produces the product in overseas plant and sell in overseas market without any physical involvement of Japan headquarter. The main roll of overseas plant has been changed from ‘inexpensive manufacturing base’ to ‘strategic manufacturing base’ catering to the local market. It is essential […]

With the expansion of overseas manufacturing, supply chains span multiple countries and areas. It is not unusual that Japanese manufacturing companies use overseas sourcing, production and selling. The role of overseas plants is changing from processing from export-oriented manufacturing into a supply base to local market. Exploring the regional market needs and providing products just in time when the market needs has become a major point that affects corporate value in the […]

Achieved “visualization” of short, medium and long term plan integration by implementing Asprova. For Mitsui Shipbuilding Group, as the name indicates, the main sector is shipping departments, but also includes industries such as railway construction, machinery, equipment – a much wider business scope than other heavy industries. Tamano machinery/systems plant is mainly using blast furnaces to produce wind turbines. Headed by BRICs, emerging countries brought increasing orders, then the subprime crisis caused […]

Asprova Corporation is pleased to announce the release of Version 8 of the award-winning production scheduler Asprova APS. New features include the Dispatching view, customizable display for setup tasks on the gantt chart, customizable naming and coloring in the property window, SQL appending for faster importing, scheduling a group of operations selected in the GUI, performance speedups and more. See the Version 8 new features outline document for details.

Tohoku TKR Corporation produce car navigation, car audios, digital cameras and so on, from parts processing through to product completion. When implementing Asprova in 2008, they aimed to establish standardized systems and uniform information management, and re-examined their information system significantly. But after implemented, it cost much time to persuade the work floor to work in the same order as scheduled. The calculated result from considering lead time and inventory status was […]

Panasonic Home Appliances Ltd, produces electric rice cookers from individual parts to product assembling, and supplies product and services worldwide as a cooking appliances manufacturer. They introduced Asprova to their production line for circuit boards for induction heating (IH) rice cookers and other IH cooking heaters.Asprova was introduced and in use in 2000. When upgrading in 2008, they purchased one more license and intend to expand the scope further in the future. […]