Production Planning is ABB’s solution for effective paper production planning. It provides tools to decrease production costs through optimizing machine capacity and minimizing waste and inventory while ensuring on-time delivery.
Production Planning enables real-time planning and optimization of production blocks, runs and orders. In addition to grade change costs, the scheduling takes machine specific characteristics and planned downtimes into account ensuring the best possible match between planned and actual production dates. All production steps including the paper machine, winder, rewinder, and sheeters are considered.
The integrated trimming package provides superior trim solutions that support multi-stage and multi-objective optimization considering trim losses, knife changes, and deviation from order tolerances. Trim patterns are visualized graphically and for the production planners it is straightforward and easy to change roll positions and trim patterns by dragging and dropping.
Benefits
- Minimizes your grade change costs
- Minimizes your trim losses
- Improves your material efficiency
- Minimizes your inventory
- Reduces your customer returns and rebate costs
- Savings up to 40 % achieved!