Tailor Scheduling to Your Business
Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate offers greater flexibility for manufacturers with specialised planning requirements. Customise scheduling logic, extend data structures and use programming interfaces to adapt the solution to your operational processes.
Whether you need bespoke scheduling rules or deeper integration with existing systems, Ultimate provides the tools to shape the scheduling environment around your business requirements.
Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate is designed to be easily integrated with other business system to allow the simple retrieval of any required data, be that works order information from your ERP/MRP system or updates on operation progress from an MES of SFDC system.
The flexibility of Opcenter integration tools and data set up makes it possible to implement the system entirely stand alone, have it fully populated by data from other business systems or any scenario in-between.
Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate is an “out of the box” solution. It uses order based scheduling to which the user can apply a ranking or weighting in order to prioritise the orders. It schedules based on availability of resources, additional constraints and the materials required for the order.
During the scheduling process Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate can take into account different operation run speeds on different resources, use sequence dependent changeovers times based on operation attributes and allow overlaps and slack times between operations.
Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate is a fully customized scheduling tool. It includes all the features that are available within the Scheduling Standard and Professional.
The database schema can be altered as required, including adding tables and fields and via the Opcenter programming interfaces it is possible to create custom scheduling rules to solve specific scheduling problems and create custom data manipulation tools for use with the Opcenter workflow engine.
Opcenter Scheduling Ultimate includes a developer license ( Opcenter APS Ultimate Access), this is a one-off purchase for a company and it enables a cost effective multi-licencing program for rolling out Preator systems across multiple sites or scheduling environments.
FEATURES
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‘Order at a Time’ scheduling
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In software table and field renaming
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In software grid view and dialog design
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Mid batch update (display only)
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Attribute based simple setup times
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Flexible Order Routing
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File Based Export
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File Based Import
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Customizable spare fields
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Multi-constraint scheduling (primary, secondary and materials)
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Material consumption at order level
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FIFO material linking rule
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ADO .Net Data Source Import
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Opcenter Workflow tool (PESP) with Custom Actions to run external code
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Transfer batching and Slack Times
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Order Enquiry
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Mid batch update with recalculation
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Full Sequence dependent attribute based setup times
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A set of standard advanced planning rules
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Opcenter workflow (PESP) Scheduling actions for multi-pass rules
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Material consumption and production at operation level
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Custom material linking rules
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Material Explorer for material data visualization
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Advanced resource constraints to model complex concurrent resource usage
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Advanced operation constraints for complex inter-operation relationships
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Exclude invalid resources based on attribute
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Opcenter Object API for data manipulation
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Open Planning Board API for custom scheduling rules
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Database schema and menu structure editing
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All Opcenter scheduling features and classifications
See ROI Fast
– many clients report payback in weeks, not years
Improve Delivery Performance
– 50–90% increase in on-time delivery
Reduce Waste
–cut raw material usage by 40–50%
Boost Productivity
–make better use of existing resources (15–20% improvement typical)
Key Benefits of Opcenter APS
Boost Productivity
–make better use of existing resources (15–20% improvement typical)
Reduce Waste
–cut raw material usage by 40–50%
Improve Delivery Performance
– 50–90% increase in on-time delivery
See ROI Fast
– many clients report payback in weeks, not years
Shorten Lead Times
– 40–50% reduction in make-span time
Shorten Lead Times
– 40–50% reduction in make-span time
