Best Practice #2: Turn on Capacity With Demand

All facilities require reliable capacity data by operation. This best practice allows you to run to demand and shutdown and balance and assign resources to lines based on customer demands and your actual capacity. The Activplant Performance Management System gathers reliable capacity data by operation, including actual time for setups and cycle time by part number. This data is critical for accurate capacity planning and effective production scheduling. The goal is to improve the accuracy of capacity planning and deliver effective production scheduling based on actual capabilities.

The benefits of the best practice include:

• More accurate build schedules (volume, mix, and sequence)
• Continuously improved changeover times
• Radically improved customer delivery service levels
• Reduced WIP inventory

This chart shows the actual production for a specific asset.
This is used for scheduling and planning on what the asset and line is really capable of producing.