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Maidafeng Intelligent Production Scheduling System
One-Click Second-Level Scheduling, Instant Delivery Date Responses

Author:Marketing DepartmentTime:2024-12-20

Maidafeng Intelligent Scheduling System

One-click second-level scheduling, rapid delivery response.

1. Pain Points of SMEs

Limited Development, Prominent Production Bottlenecks

Limited resources and constrained capacity urgently require optimized allocation to break through production bottlenecks.

"Three Many, One Slow" - Manual Scheduling is Difficult

Urgent orders and order insertions, high work order volume, many material types; slow manual scheduling response.

Inaccurate Delivery Dates, Lack of Simulation Tools

Sales arbitrarily promise delivery dates, production cannot deliver on time, leading to a decline in order acceptance rate.

Unclear Progress, Complex Production Management

Small batches with many varieties, short process crossover periods, difficult process management, and hard-to-control progress.

Reliance on Experience, Non-transparent Rules

Reliance on personal experience makes it difficult for management to participate in adjustments, affecting production progress.

High Inventory, Difficult Material Kitting

Inconsistency between planned and actual material demand leads to inventory overstock while lacking materials needed for production.

 

2. Product Introduction

Alps' production scheduling tool tailored for SMEs, characterized by being "small, fast, light, and accurate." It originates from Alps' self-developed Huipai APS supply chain resource planning platform, inheriting core technologies from large-scale scheduling systems used by Fortune 500 companies. It retains powerful scheduling capabilities while simplifying complex logic design and data entry, meeting the scheduling needs of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in a more lightweight manner.

It presets dedicated parameters and reports for multiple industries such as 3C electronics, mechanical processing, injection molding, PCB processing, and precision electronics, enabling fast and accurate output of scheduling solutions tailored to the enterprise's production model. It helps enterprises improve production efficiency and shorten delivery cycles.

 

01 Feature Highlights

Minute-level Fast Scheduling

Automatically calculate the optimal scheduling path based on inventory, capacity, and personnel.

Decompose processes, batch production for the same processes to maximize capacity utilization.

Supports multiple scheduling strategies such as order priority, resource priority, and balanced allocation.

Resource Gantt Chart: Equipment load, progress, and idle status at a glance.

Drag-and-drop scheduling: Manually drag orders to quickly complete scheduling adjustments.

 

Real-time Production Progress Tracking, On-time Delivery with Zero Pressure

Mobile time reporting and progress tracking: Scan QR codes via mobile to report work, and production progress is automatically synced to corresponding orders.

Delay warning, ensure delivery: Timely detect discrepancies between plan and actual, and issue warnings for abnormal orders.

 

One-click Simulation and Rescheduling for Order Insertion, Quick Order Modification with Zero Burden

 

  • Flexible Order Insertion

Gantt chart provides intuitive visualization.

Optimal insertion position for orders; other orders are automatically rescheduled.

  • Delay Warning

Visually display orders affected by insertion, calculate delay time, and issue direct warnings.

  • Order Locking

Supports locking any order, unaffected by order insertion or cancellation.

 

Intelligent Algorithm Dynamic Calculation, Zero Deviation in Delivery Date Response

  • Delivery Date Visualization

All order delivery dates are visually displayed in a Gantt chart, with the time required for each process and connection nodes simultaneously shown.

  • Delay Warning

Orders that cannot be completed within the required time receive a delay warning and an estimated actual completion time.

 

Material Demand and Plan Linkage, Zero Delay in Material Kitting

  • Real-time Material Shortage Warning

Material demand is linked with production plans, providing real-time shortage warnings. The demand for each material in the future days, which materials will be short, and how much is short—all clearly shown.

  • Material Demand Calculation

Accurately calculate material demand for self-made parts, outsourced parts, and purchased parts based on constraints such as sales orders, inventory, and outsourced in-transit, avoiding under-procurement, missed procurement, and late procurement.

 

02 Product Advantages

  • Efficient Scheduling

Through refined scheduling, provide the optimal production path to achieve efficient allocation of equipment, personnel, and materials, comprehensively improving resource utilization and increasing production capacity.

  • Fast Response

The delivery simulation calculation function quickly calculates delivery dates for large and urgent orders, rapidly responds to customer inquiries, and increases the order acceptance rate.

  • Guaranteed Delivery

Flexibly adjust production plans based on real-time production status, accurately handle urgent orders and order insertions, ensure timely and accurate material allocation, and improve on-time delivery rate.

  • Experience Inheritance

Build a scheduling knowledge base to reduce reliance on individual employee experience, enhancing production stability and sustainability.

  • Global Linkage

Provide real-time data analysis to help management make scientific decisions. Seamlessly integrate with existing enterprise smart systems (MES, WMS, ERP, etc.) to support enterprise scaling.

 

03 Value Services

Simple · Yet Not Simple

Tailored for SMEs, incorporating lean processes, simplifying the complex logic design and data entry requirements of traditional large APS systems. Easy to operate with powerful core scheduling functions. It is not a direct "feature-hiding" version of large APS systems.

Dedicated · More Suitable

For industries such as 3C electronics, mechanical processing, injection molding, PCB processing, and precision electronics, preset different scheduling parameters and reports to output more targeted scheduling solutions based on the customer's production model.

Smart Choice · Level 2 Standard

Matches the digital transformation of SMEs, meeting the second level of intelligent manufacturing (marketing management, planning and scheduling, production control, equipment management, procurement management, decision support).

Lightweight · Easy Operation

Low dependency on enterprise digitization level; can be deployed without ERP or MES systems. Uses SaaS mode, fast deployment, easy to get started, low entry threshold.

 

3. Company Profile

Alps Alpine Group is a global supplier providing diversified products and services to customers, with over 38,000 employees and more than 100 subsidiaries. Based in Japan, the Group conducts development, production, and sales operations in the Americas, Asia, and China, building relationships of trust with local communities in countries around the world, and offering outstanding products and services to the international market.

Alpine System Integration Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as "ALSI") is a wholly-owned subsidiary invested by Japan's Alps Alpine Group (founded in 1948) in China in 2005. It is the secretary-general unit of Dalian Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Innovation Alliance, a "Specialization, Refinement, Differentiation, and Innovation" enterprise in Liaoning Province, and an outstanding partner of Dassault Systèmes in China. ALSI has accumulated and innovated from SAP and MOM to APS, with a deep understanding of APS upstream and downstream business, information products, and factory floor needs.

 

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