Production Management is ABB’s solution for managing the production process from the registration of a pulp bale or jumbo reel to the customer shipment. It can handle the most complex production process involving multiple mills and multistage product routes.
Effective production tracking ensures the real-time execution of the optimized production plans. The tracking covers pulp machines, paper machines, super calenders, winders, re-winders, secondary roll-processing units, re-reelers, wrap lines, folio and cut-size sheeters, palletizers, and automated storage and retrieval systems, leaving no single material flow without tracing. Direct interfaces to shop floor devices allow automatic device control and output of data without manual intervention.
Production Management provides for full genealogy of both intermediate products and finished goods. It offers the complete history of produced packages including all production steps, re-classification actions and warehouse moves together with work station codes, timestamps and operator signatures.
Benefits
- Executes your production plans optimally by avoiding under/overproduction
- Reduces your working capital by decreasing raw material inventories, WIP and finished goods inventory
- Improves your cash-flow by ensuring that deliveries are “on-time - in full”
- Reduces your costs by improving visibility and providing complete product genealogy