Zenith SPPS: Manufacturing Execution
System
The most important challenges modern enterprises face are
improvement of production effectiveness, quality of customer
service, reduction of expenses and production prime cost.
Both business-applications complexes automating resources
management, accounting and analytical work and the systems, being
individual components of such complexes, are used at present to
solve this problem. Such systems, realizing one or several control
enterprise functions, possesses an increased flexibility and
integration possibilities with other information products.
Russian Manufacturing Execution System Zenith SPPS is an
integrated software product realizing the function of operational
manufacture management, allowing to preserve the balance between the
number of orders and production capacities necessary for their
fulfillment.
The principle of the system operation consists in
planning of capacities and continuous support of the production
schedule on the basis of data about the state and workload of
equipment (machine tools, instrument aids, etc.) and availability of
resources at each moment of time.
Zenith SPPS integrates operational scheduling
(calculation, correction and computer support of production
schedules) and supervisory control of motion and availability of
parts starting with order formation and finishing with output of
finished products.
The system can receive data from the modules of
manufacture automated technological preparation; direct input of all
needed data is fully supported. The results of the system’s work can
be saved in the files of different formats (XLS, HTML, XML and
others) and serve as initial data for other business applications.
Features of the system
Highly productive core
It allows to calculate a schedule with several
thousands positions in a few minutes. Use of combinations of
different criteria gives a possibility to choose the best algorithm
of calculation.
The system possesses powerful means for support
of the schedule life cycle: correction, addition of new orders,
removal of obsolete data. Change in the schedule of the subdivision
operation and addition of new equipment without recomputation of the
schedule is allowed.
The system has shown its efficiency at
simultaneous use of 5000 technological operations of route
technology at 200 work places with planning horizon of up to 12
months.
Ergonomic user interface
While developing the system the authors used
provisions of the theory of man-machine interaction considering
psychology of potential users. Zenith SPPS can be used on common PCs
and most effectively employing the capabilities of a standard
Windows interface for selection, alteration and moving of the
elements of a production schedule.
Networking capabilities
There are used in the system:
-
an automated work place of the
shop dispatcher (the main system module that is
simultaneously the applications server);
-
work places of production
divisions foremen (input of data about fulfillment
of the current operations and state of equipment).
Openness and flexibility
Versatility of the system core and
flexible interface allow to adapt Zenith SPPS for
various spheres of activity and business processes: from
tool production and machining to oil-and-gas production,
education needs and logistics. The system can be used
both independently and jointly with other software.
Availability to a wide range of enterprises
The cost of license and complete introduction of
the system by order is lower than for other systems with similar
functionality, which makes its accessible even for small companies.
The presence of a fast-deploying base version allows to install the
system very quickly and with the expenditures minimal.
Substantiation of the system introduction
The use of the Zenith SPPS system allows to
considerably improve the following indices of the enterprise:
-
growth of labor productivity;
-
increases in the equipment load
factor;
-
decreases in the volume of
incomplete production;
-
increases in the level of
"transparency" and controllability of the production
processes;
-
improvement of in-time delivery
percentage.
Expenditures for introduction of the Zenith SPPS
system is a balanced investment in effective management of
production subdivisions of an enterprise.
Development stage
Finished product. Zenith SPPS is applied at a
number of enterprises in Russia.
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