Preactor Brochures The current trends in manufacturing are aimed at lowering inventory levels to reduce costs, while still being able to respond to shorter lead times and thereby satisfy customer demand. This forces companies to find ways to optimise production operations by reducing or eliminating non value-added activities such as setup or waiting time. Highlighting potential problems allows action to be taken to balance demand and capacity. Preactor has been developed over 15 years to meet this need. It is used by small companies, mid-size and large corporations to help meet demands made by their customers and beat the increasingly global competition. No matter what your planning and scheduling needs are, Preactor can be set up to meet them...more>> Better on-time, in-full delivery performance is almost a given from advanced planning and scheduling software, able to quickly and dynamically schedule and re-schedule production orders to take into account not only real-world capacity limits, but unexpected events that pop up and bite us. For many, however, APS has also yielded benefits spreading far beyond. In fact, although APS projects have traditionally been started to solve planning problems, the results can be so great that APS is ultimately viewed as pivotal both to the business and its supply chain...more>>
Preactor is a family of products. Although all Preactor systems are based on exactly the same core code they have different levels of functionality and price points so that the user can select the version that meets their specific needs and the budget available. Because all versions share common code, upgrading from one version to another is easy and straight forward. Preactor 100 FCS Preactor 100 FCS is a fixed configuraton version of Preactor with the goal to be deployed quickly. Its scheduling algorithm uses priority or due date to decide the order sequence, and generates a good, achievable schedule, days, weeks, even months ahead...more>> Lean manufacturing represents a cultural change at all levels of a company. Its prime objective is to eliminate waste, whatever form that takes. The most obvious examples in the production area might be excess materials in storage, work in-process and finished products waiting for buyers, but it can also be unnecessary movement of staff and many other processes that do not ‘add value’ to finished items, such as set-up time. The objective is to deliver orders on-time with minimum inventory with the shortest lead time and the highest utilisation of resources adding value...more>>
Modern ERP software systems in themselves are critical tools for every manufacturing vertical. However, the addition of Preactor can take a manufacturer’s ERP package into another league without disturbing the existing functionality of their system.
ERP systems typically do not have the data to model a system in enough detail to manage the shop floor. They have a long term plan that does not easily provide the functionality to manage production on a day-to-day basis. Preactor would seem to overlap with ERP but in fact it provides complimentary features.
ERP is good at costing, inventory control and transaction control for key business processes. Preactor is good at drilling down to the shop floor to manage individual orders...more>> The current trends in manufacturing are aimed at lowering inventory levels to reduce costs, while still being able to respond to shorter lead times and thereby satisfy customer demand. This forces companies to be able to optimise production operations by reducing or eliminating non-value-added activities such as setup or waiting time. Highlighting potential problems allows action to be taken to balance demand and capacity....more>>
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