Optimize Production Flow for On Time Delivery, Every Time
Material setup and job sequence optimization for the entire factory
Valor MSS gives the user options for factory wide optimization based on weighted priorities such as minimizing production time, or maximizing utilization of capacity.
On-time delivery is the heartbeat of every profitable manufacturing enterprise. Meeting delivery requirements demands excellent production planning. Creating a multiline production plan that leverages material inventory, fixed setups, capacity of available feeders and machine placement rates is the holy grail of SMT production planning. Frequent changes, hot projects, material shortages and unexpected downtime often make the planner’s job an expensive guessing game.
Mentor’s solutions eliminate guesswork and dramatically reduce engineering time to create a truly optimized setup plan and production sequence for the entire factory, with built-in agility to quickly react to changing conditions.
Mentor’s Valor® MSS Production Planning Solutions:
- “Push button” planning for thousands of work orders
- Multiline work order allocation for best fit
- Optimized production sequence for overall best delivery
- Cuts downtime, improves utilization and on-time performance
- Cuts engineering time to a fraction with no mistakes
“The automation with Valor MSS has enabled us to reduce the engineering time for NPI by 80%, and enables us to consolidate our production planning process by instantly grouping any quantity of work orders based on the finite capacity of the line, including any static feeder setups already in place.”
Stephan Schnake, Manufacturing Process Support PHOENIX CONTACT ELECTRONICS
Engineering time for optimizing new setups in high-mix production can be very time consuming. The factory wide setup automation of Mentor’s planning solutions dramatically cuts both the engineering time and changeover time.
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Valor MSS Production Planning
Valor MSS Production Planning creates an intelligent, optimized PCB production plan on multiple lines, based on actual machine and feeder capacity, materials and configuration. View Product Overview
Production Planning Resources
Optimizing Shop Floor Build Schedules
On-demand Web Seminar: Gain an understanding of the critical nature of factors influencing the ideal resource constrained scheduling process, how this ideal is nearly impossible to achieve without some very special tools that... View On-demand Web Seminar
SMT Data Preparation for Load Balancing & Schedule Performance
On-demand Web Seminar: This webinar will discuss these barriers to high performance SMT Production, and techniques for achieving on-time delivery goals with high quality and the lowest possible unit cost. View On-demand Web Seminar
SMT Data Preparation, Load Balancing, and Schedule Performance
White Paper: Our factories today are picking up steam. As a result, companies are looking for ways to improve performance-to-schedule. The rate of on-time delivery coupled with measurement of actual unit cost compared... View White Paper