Dear Readers,
The current issue of sweets processing reports how Hachez has production and packaging under control with FLS production planning. This article is exclusively available online.
Have fun reading it!
Your FLS Team
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In production, plans are often drawn up laboriously and with great effort. Then a factor changes and the plan becomes unusable, and you start all over again. As with a chain reaction, these changes run through the entire production plan.
Today’s newsletter deals with the topic of how to secure your company and make plans “controllable” instead of reacting to sudden bottlenecks and missed deadlines with emergency solutions.
FLS’s Automatic Plan Review helps you to proactively counter changes caused by internal and external influences. The planner sees the consequences of any changes for the entire production in real time. Plans can be updated in a few moments, taking into account deadlines and costs.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter.
Your FLS Team
Dear Readers,
In the planning phase, there are countless possible combinations per machine. If you then add in personnel, set-up times, costs and deadlines, it becomes clear how much potential a system with automatic plan creation and optimisation can offer you.
In the second part of our series “FLS – Fascination Production” we show you how you can make better use of your capacities. Let us inspire you.
Your FLS Team
Dear Readers,
In the planning phase, there are countless possible combinations per machine. If you then add in personnel, set-up times, costs and deadlines, it becomes clear how much potential a system with automatic plan creation and optimisation can offer you.
In the second part of our series “FLS – Fascination Production” we show you how you can make better use of your capacities. Let us inspire you.
Your FLS Team
We give you an outlook on trends, challenges and developments in the field of production planning and control (PPS) for 2014: The variety of products continues to increase due to the change in consumer behaviour. Companies are challenged to improve processes in order to secure their pole position ahead of the competition. Because if you can deliver more reliably and more cheaply, you win, especially when there are bottlenecks.
In our opinion, manufacturing companies are confronted with the following developments and challenges:
Production companies are under increasing pressure to meet the demand and requirements of their customers. They expect constant readiness to deliver with an increasingly changing assortment and decreasing quantities per article. This is particularly noticeable at times of high demand, such as a heat wave in summer, an early onset of winter or seasonal events in the year. With conventional planning, production cannot then react quickly enough to short-term orders, changes, bottlenecks or breakdowns.
Companies must become more adaptable in their production and still continue to produce cost-effectively in order to remain competitive. Optimizing production planning must be at the top of your priority list.
The following trends can be identified for production planning:
1. increase of productive times through set-up time optimization.
2. planning systems must be able to map operational processes and their dependencies.
3. companies see themselves more under pressure when it comes to durability.
4. Modern production planning makes separation into rough and detailed planning superfluous.
5. future planning systems use alternatives
Top issues: Cleaning times in production +++ Checklist production planning software +++ Goodbye Excel planning +++ Survey: Which tools do you use for production planning?
Dear Readers,
everywhere you hear keywords like industry 4.0, 3-D printing and the “Internet of Things”. What does it really mean? It’s about constantly improving your production and ensuring that your business remains competitive.
Check your production! Where can you optimize? Think, for example, of the time when machines are at a standstill, retooled or availability checks are carried out.
Production planning is under scrutiny.
Perhaps in the past, planning with Excel or the ERP system was enough for you. However, the trend is that companies are looking for a solution that is easy to implement, integrates into the existing IT landscape and is not cost-intensive.
Today’s newsletter is intended to give you some initial ideas for thinking into the future.
Your FLS Team
Do you still plan your orders manually or even via the higher-level ERP system?
What does this have to do with your production? Precisely fitting IT detailed planning systems (MES or control consoles) are now cost-effective and indispensable for efficiently controlling production.
If you want to read more about this topic, you can read the article “The future of ERP and MES” here.
In the current issue of IT&Production you will find a comprehensive article entitled “Better results through less cleaning effort”. The core of the report is the minimization of cleaning times in the food industry and the question of how to achieve better results with less cleaning effort. The FLS managing director and company founder Dr.-Ing. Hanns-Jürgen Hüttner has shared his experience in over 30 years of production planning and control.
The FEKOR production control system drastically reduces the time required for cleaning systems in the food industry by including those product features in the planning that cause cleaning times. For some users, it has significantly increased the available plant running times.
Read the full report here.
Autumn is here! In production, some of you will probably breathe a sigh of relief and try to get production planning back into the right order after the hot summer days and peak performances. Others, on the other hand, are in the middle of production for Christmas and are trying to complete all orders on time.
What about your production planning? Does it meet your requirements? Wouldn’t it be easier to compensate for seasonal fluctuations and know that important characteristics of your products, shelf life limits, set-up times and other factors are automatically taken into account by planning? Read how!
You voted!
Yesterday the Bundestag elections took place in Germany. We also used the deadline for our survey. You have agreed which requirements your planning system should fulfil in production.
You can find the survey results here.
Thank you for your participation.