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The Role of IT in Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling

The Role of IT in Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling

To keep up with the rapid rate of innovation in the global manufacturing industry, a growing number of companies are turning to smart manufacturing with advanced planning and scheduling programs. According to Gartner, nearly 80% of manufacturers are currently investing in...

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How Manufacturing Social Media Improves Plant Operations

How Manufacturing Social Media Improves Plant Operations

When Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites hit the Internet in the 2000s, they completely changed the way people communicated with each other online. In addition, they gave businesses an avenue to gain insights from their audience and provide important news...

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VirtECSĀ® software, created by Advanced Process Combinatorics, Inc. (APCI), delivers a range of capabilities built around proprietary core solver technology. VirtECSĀ® is technology for real-world planning & scheduling applications.

Reducing Capital Investment

“Using VirtECS, we were able to debottleneck our largest production facility by identifying a sequence of changes that we never could have evaluated with a spreadsheet model. We reduced the necessary capital investment by $300 million by demonstrating areas where more equipment did not benefit throughput.”

Senior Resource Planning Manager – Biopharma Industry

Big Time Savings

“VirtECS handles all of the ripple effects to the schedule when things change. That is a big time savings in a complicated process with lots of constraints. Not to mention making sure that you don’t miss a constraint!”

Finite Scheduler – Biopharma Industry

Most Powerful Solution

“I have evaluated more than a dozen process modeling software solutions and VirtECS is hands-down the most powerful for end-to-end capacity analysis”

Director of Manufacturing Science & Technology – Leading Pharmaceutical Company

Avoid Unexpected Pitfalls

“A Discovery project with APCI helped us to identify and avoid some pitfalls that we had not anticipated. With the initial process model in place we were able to roll right into a Finite Scheduling implementation”

Product Manager – Chemical Company

An Essential Tool

“I would not want to schedule this plant without VirtECS.”

Scheduler – Leading Pharmaceutical Company