Setup activity and alternatives modes in APO PP/DS

[Former Member]

Dear colleagues,

We have 3 production lines, 2 press-forms and 1 setup-engineer. 3 productions lines X 2 press-forms = 6 combinations.

Press-form can be installed to any production line.

Productivity depends on the production line and press-form combination. Only one press-form can be installed on the production line.

Work hours of production lines and press-forms for production planning - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Setup matrix is use properly.

Setup activity can be performed only by a setup-engineer (work time at 9-00 to 14-00). In another time changeover can not be performed.

Production line and press-form loaded simultaneously during the entire period of production and can not be used to produce another product.

Questions:

1) How PDS should be structured in APO PP/DS in order to reflect abovementioned requirements?

2) How to plan setup activity only in work hours of setup-engineer?

Best regards, Dmitry

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dimitry,

As I understand your requirement the sequence on each of the 3 production lines is something like this:

Setup Engineer -> press form, Setup Engineer being 1 for the 3 lines it is the bottleneck.

Map Setup Engineer as a secondary resource and use it for the setup operation -- pooled capacity can be used for this purpose -- so that setup will happen only when this setup engineer is active

Map press form also as a secondary resource will pooled capacity - 2 nos.

By doing this you will be able to produce on each of the 3 production lines only based on the availability of these 2 resources.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Subhash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Subnash.

1) Productivity depends on the production line and press-form combination. Press-forms are unique. We can not use a pooled capacity to press-forms.

2) In APO only one capacity may be relevant for scheduling, we need usually two capacity for scheduling - production line and setup-engineer. According to your solution only one capacity is used for scheduling (setup-engineer).

Best regards, Dmitry

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you. Problem solved.

BR, Dmitry