VirtECS® Overview

Manufacturing Planning & Scheduling Software

An Overview of VirtECS®

VirtECS^® software, created by Advanced Process Combinatorics, Inc. (APCI), delivers a range of capabilities built around proprietary core solver technology.

VirtECS^® is technology for real-world planning & scheduling applications.

As a planning and scheduling tool for manufacturing plants, VirtECS® can integrate with and augment your existing software systems, resolving the universal shortcomings of other system’s scheduling capabilities and modules. VirtECS® automates and simplifies the cumbersome spreadsheet-based approaches many companies still employ, providing precise detailed solutions faster.

Our VirtECS® Overview will guide you through the background of this advanced planning and scheduling tool and expand on its capabilities to help improve your plant’s bottom line.

IN THIS GUIDE, YOU’LL LEARN:

Which industries and companies can benefit from VirtECS®.

How VirtECS® provides more detailed planning & scheduling solutions than spreadsheet-based approaches.

The real-world daily applications of VirtECS®’ various planning and scheduling features.

How VirtECS® helps improve communication and coordination among every department in the plant.

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“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

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