Production Scheduling and Sequencing Optimization
Generate feasible production schedules against real constraints in minutes, and let planners compare objectives before committing rather than defending a plan built in a spreadsheet.
Solution Overview
The Challenge
Production schedules are built in spreadsheets by a small number of experienced planners who hold the sequencing rules in their heads, which makes the plan good but slow, undocumented and impossible to reproduce when they are away.
- 1Schedules built in spreadsheets with sequencing rules held in individual planners' heads
- 2No practical way to test whether an alternative sequence would perform better
- 3Changeover cost, material, labour and commercial priority traded off by judgment alone
Our Approach
CloudGate builds a constraint-based scheduling capability where capacity, changeover, material availability, labour skills and commercial commitments are modeled explicitly and a solver produces feasible schedules against a stated objective.
- Explicit constraint model covering capacity, changeover, material, labour and commitments
- Solver generating feasible schedules against a configurable objective function
- Scenario comparison across competing objectives before a plan is committed
Typical Outcomes
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