Siemens Opcenter APS 18 –
Enhancing the orchestration of your
manufacturing process
Siemens Opcenter APS 18
Benefits
• New Siemens Opcenter APS
product branding
• Additional APIs for interacting with
advanced highlight and filtering
tools
• Extended Siemens Opcenter
Scheduling Anywhere upload to
include facility information
• Compatible with Siemens Opcenter
Execution Discrete 3.0 and 3.1
Features
• API for interacting with advanced
highlighting and filtering results
• Facility definition with Siemens
Opcenter Scheduling upload
facility
• Supports integrations to Siemens
Opcenter Execution Discrete 3.1
and Valor® Production Plan 14.1
Summary
Siemens Opcenter APS (formerly known
as Preactor APS) software is a family of
production planning and scheduling
products that improve the synchronization of your manufacturing processes,
giving you greater visibility and control
and enabling you to increase resource
utilization and on-time delivery while
reducing inventory levels and waste.
Siemens Opcenter APS is a highly customizable capacity planning and scheduling package.
Preactor APS becomes Siemens Opcenter APS
Preactor APS becomes Siemens
Opcenter APS with release 18, with
aligned icons and desktop.
Siemens Opcenter APS 18 comes with
an updated look and feel, which aligns
the product with the Opcenter portfolio.
The updated look and feel comes with
new icons throughout the product,
along with a new color theme.
Additional APIs for advanced
highlight and filtering tools
Additional application programming
interfaces (APIs) have been added to
the already extensive API library of
Siemens Opcenter APS, allowing extensions to be implemented with ease.
Siemens Opcenter Scheduling
Anywhere facility upload support
Siemens Opcenter Scheduling
Anywhere upload now supports the
ability to define a facility name, allowing users to separate facility uploads for
multiple sites.
Integration with Siemens Opcenter
Execution Discrete 3.0 and 3.1
Available only for Siemens Opcenter
Scheduling (Siemens Opcenter SC)
Ultimate, Siemens Opcenter SC integrates with Siemens Opcenter
Execution Discrete with an out-of-thebox integration between the manufacturing execution system (MES) and
advanced planning and scheduling.
Integration with Valor Production
Plan 14.0 and 14.1
Valor Production Plan software creates
an easy-to-use yet comprehensive
model that allows you to simulate your
production process including all surface
mount technology (SMT) and manual
stations. You can set optimization
parameters such as due date, production time and changeover that enable
you to make intelligent choices
between given plans that fit your exact
needs to meet deadlines and avoid
downtime.
Siemens Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate
now includes out-of-the-box integration
with Valor Production Plan 14.0 and
14.1.
Valor Production Plan directly interacts
with work order, resource and calendar
information from within Siemens
Opcenter APS to provide optimized
sequencing of SMT operations.
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