Phenix Production Scheduling Software
Cloud-based
production scheduling
Digital transformation is happening across supply chains around the world to keep up with today’s challenges. Don’t let the factory be your last digital frontier.
Delivering a cloud-based production scheduling platform that’s easy to deploy and easy to use, customers are transforming their production scheduling, removing waste, responding to disruptions and getting the most out of their supply chain investments.
01.
Phenix Production Scheduling –
Schedule your plants with confidence
Phenix Production Scheduling optimizes production efficiency by easily deciding what products to make on each line and sequencing them to minimize changeovers, while balancing working capital, service, cost, and sustainability objectives.
Customers are seeing upwards of 50% reduction in the number of changeovers, changeover time, and a 5-30% increase in throughput rates.
Schedule so plants consistently meet business goals under normal and disrupted conditions and deliver optimal manufacturing performance.
Key features
Align plans with the rest of the business
Calculate common scheduling and planning parameters, and harmonize these with ERP and planning systems, so that schedules are executable and can deliver optimal manufacturing performance.
Make it easy
to schedule
With an intuitive, interactive interface, users are scheduling with ease and delivering results before they finish their training. Real-time scheduling communications ensures everyone is in sync with the latest scheduling decisions.
Configure changeover
rules
The Phenix attribute-based changeover model lets you configure changeover rules and run rates to model schedule performance and get feedback on the impact of schedule changes.
Minimize
changeovers
Using Phenix Genetic Algorithm AI, schedule related products together, in the best sequence, with visibility to all attributes to can maximize production efficiencies and minimize costly changeovers.
Respond to capacity
challenges
Get visibility to the raw materials and resources needed for your schedule. Alerts will notify you when there are schedule problems due to conflicts. Respond effectively to capacity challenges.
Manage resources and
raw materials
Encode operating strategies and institutional knowledge into the scheduling software to enable training of new schedulers, governance, operational process consistency, and backup coverage.
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Phenix Product Wheel Design –
Predictable scheduling for an unpredictable supply chain
Phenix Product Wheel Design uses Product Wheel principles to bring predictability and the economies of repetition to your scheduling. Production will fall into regular, repeating cycles, extending this stability throughout the supply chain. This gives you the ability to make confident decisions when managing rush orders, equipment failures or resource issues.
Leverage Aligned
Product Wheels™
Define the optimum sequences, cycle times, frequencies, and inventory targets for each SKU. Generate schedules that are aligned with the business’s customer service, throughput, and inventory goals.
Automate
scheduling
Production sequences can be automatically generated. Phenix Product Wheel Design facilitates optimized rescheduling when dealing with disruptions. The attribute-based changeover model is easy to maintain and stays accurate.
Quickly analyze production
scheduling options
Schedulers can create new schedules in seconds leveraging Aligned Product Wheel™ capabilities. Easily reschedule and immediately see the time and cost impacts.
Automate the most
common actions
Users can automatically re-arrange the schedule, for example extending a run into downtime, moving a run to the start of the next uptime, rescheduling to minimize changeovers, or producing just in time.
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Phenix Operating Strategy Design –
Bringing the boardroom to the shopfloor
Phenix Operating Strategy Design unites the boardroom with the shop floor by enabling you to synchronize cash, cost and service goals with production strategies. You can evaluate trade-offs with business goals to engineer the best production designs that maximize results. The balance and trade-offs can be different for different products and families in different regions or for different time periods in seasonal businesses.
Run simulations to determine optimal operating strategy
Use goal seeking simulations to recommend safety stock levels that support cash, cost and service targets. Consider all inputs like frequencies, lot sizes, demand and supply variability and fill rate targets.
Optimize inventory
levels
Set inventory targets based on wheel parameters, to protect manufacturing from demand and supply variability, balancing working capital, service and cost objectives.
Optimize cycle
times
Harmonize cycle times to ensure practical repetitive schedules that are well accepted by all. Optimize cycle times where the frequencies accommodate high volume, low volume and make to order products, and are personalized for families and individual SKUs.
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