Opcenter APS Scheduling benefits: How to best make sequencing, syncronisatization, priorities, constraints and conflicts, monitor execution, manage change. Simple green diagram

Opcenter Scheduling is a scheduling tool primarily for manufactures that need to schedule machines, production lines and resources but is also used in services and logistics.

A scheduling software such as Opcenter Scheduling is a very important tool for manufacturing companies, as it helps to significantly minimize production times and costs. It can have a major impact on the productivity of a process.

Opcenter Scheduling takes into account the actual availability of resources and other constraints such as tooling and materials to produce a feasible schedule.

Orders can be quickly scheduled using intelligent built-in rules, and the planner can also manually interact with the schedule to make changes based on their experience.

Scheduling with the help of Opcenter Scheduling enables you to increase the efficiency of your production and reduce costs.

Feature Standard Professional Ultimate
‘Order at a Time’ scheduling ✔ ✔ ✔
In software table and field renaming ✔ ✔ ✔
In software grid view and dialog design Mid batch update (display only) ✔ ✔ ✔
Attribute based simple setup times ✔ ✔ ✔
Flexible Order Routing ✔ ✔ ✔
File Based Export ✔ ✔ ✔
File Based Import ✔ ✔ ✔
Customizable spare fields 12 20 ∞
Multi-constraint scheduling (primary, secondary and materials) ✔ ✔ ✔
Material consumption at order level ✔ ✔ ✔
FIFO material linking rule ✔ ✔ ✔
ADO.Net Data Source Import ✔ ✔ ✔
Preactor Workflow tool (PESP) with Custom Actions to run external code ✔ ✔ ✔
Transfer batching and Slack Times ✔ ✔ ✔
Order Enquiry ✔ ✔ ✔
Mid batch update with recalculation ✔ ✔
Full Sequence dependent attribute based setup times ✔ ✔
A set of standard advanced planning rules ✔ ✔
Preactor workflow (PESP) Scheduling actions for multi-pass rules ✔ ✔
Material consumption and production at operation level ✔ ✔
Custom material linking rules ✔ ✔
Material Explorer for material data visualization ✔ ✔
Advanced resource constraints to model complex concurrent resource usage ✔ ✔
Advanced operation constraints for complex inter-operation relationships ✔ ✔
Exclude invalid resources based on attribute ✔ ✔
Preactor Object API for data manipulation ✔
Open Planning Board API for custom scheduling rules ✔
Database schema and menu structure editing ✔
All Preactor scheduling features and classifications ✔