Siemens Advanced Licensing Technology Siemens Advanced Licensing Technology (SALT) is Siemens’ modern licensing platform designed to improve reliability and reduce operational risk. More than a licensing update, SALT helps ensure critical systems — such as planning and scheduling — remain available when your business depends on them. By aligning licensing with modern infrastructure and resilience…
Pharmaceutical manufacturing doesn’t allow for guesswork. Production runs are governed by strict quality controls, validated processes, regulatory oversight, and customer commitments that leave little room for error. Yet behind the scenes, many pharma manufacturers still rely on fragmented planning tools — spreadsheets, static schedules, or ERP systems never designed to manage real operational complexity. As…
Why Even the Best Production Plans Fall Apart. In manufacturing, advantage doesn’t come from working harder. It comes from seeing further, deciding faster, and acting with confidence. Picture this: your team has built a solid production plan. Lines look balanced, materials are booked, and customer orders are confirmed. Then reality hits. A supplier delays. Demand…
Winter Update from Kudos Solutions The nights have drawn in, temperatures have dropped, and winter is well and truly here — but at Kudos Solutions, momentum hasn’t slowed. From welcoming new expertise into the team to pushing forward with next-generation scheduling innovation, the past few months have been focused on progress, insight, and preparing manufacturers…
Watch this video as Jeff Johnson, CEO of Kudos Solutions, shares his perspective on why planning has become a critical leadership challenge for manufacturers — and how Opcenter APS helps bring control back to operations. In this short discussion, Jeff explores the realities facing manufacturing teams today: rising complexity, constant disruption, and the pressure to…
For Francisco Aragón, scaling a global manufacturing operation meant rethinking how planning and scheduling supported both day-to-day execution and long-term stability. With increasing complexity across products, sites, and customer commitments, the business needed a planning approach that could deliver consistency without sacrificing agility. By implementing Siemens Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), the team achieved measurable…
What if your schedule could improve itself? Every planner knows the feeling: the production plan is built, the lines look ready — and then reality happens. A changeover takes too long. An oven becomes a bottleneck. A supplier pushes back on delivery. Suddenly the “final” schedule is not so final. For years, planners have relied…
We are excited to announce that the new version of Opcenter APS 2510 has been released! Opcenter™ software is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software, hardware and services. Opcenter APS is a family of production planning and scheduling products that help you synchronize your manufacturing processes. This gives you greater…
