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INDUSTRY FEATURE
ILOG Plant PowerOps
Opt for optimal in production
Manufacturers depend on a number of enterprise resource planning and supply-chain planning applications to run their production facilities. Unfortunately, most of these solutions do not deliver true excellence in production planning and detailed scheduling. While the plans and schedules these tools deliver are good, they are not optimal, and do not provide the key performance indicators and trend analysis essential for improving processes.
ILOG Plant PowerOps provides two major breakthroughs: the most sophisticated optimization models ever delivered in a general purpose commercial application, and revolutionary ease of use from a combination of optimization, business rule and visualization technologies. ILOG Plant PowerOps can swiftly guide users through the often difficult tradeoffs between conflicting objectives, and automatically generate reliable, cost-effective production schedules for any set of user-defined objectives. In fact, a new plan or schedule based on new cost assumptions or a spike in customer demand can be generated in as few as three mouse clicks. As a result, operational personnel can cope with exceptions and expedite orders more easily, while planners can explore and compare different production scenarios.
ILOG optimization software can take into account line or process setup costs and times, storage and production mode costs, lost profit from unsatisfied demand, earliness and tardiness penalties, machine maintenance and a host of other important considerations. In addition, ILOG PlantPowerOps can address many of the unique planning and scheduling problems faced by process manufacturers, such as tank capacity, complex material flows, co-products, by-products and shelf-life constraints. Only models that handle this level of detail can enable you to achieve true excellence in planning and scheduling.
To learn more about ILOG Plant PowerOps and what it can do for you, visit http://ppo.ilog.com.
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