Production logistics
Production logistics
The Intralogistics module gives production managers, planning managers and logistics and supply managers a tool for planning the work of handlers and ensuring their effective use in accordance with the production plan and the current status of its progress at individual workplaces, including reactions to operational changes to the plan and workplace situations, which contributes an online overview of the status of individual workplaces and their material supply.
The module enables both increasing the efficiency of the use of production workplaces and reducing excessive stocks of work-in-progress. A significant reduction in downtime caused by waiting for material, because it was not delivered to the workplace on time, or was not delivered in the appropriate quantity, or the wrong material was delivered, contributes to increasing the efficiency of the use of workplaces and OEE. A detailed overview of material flows and the status of work-in-progress and the needs of individual workplaces in accordance with the production plan contributes to the reduction of excessive stocks of work-in-progress, allowing to reduce safety material stocks and the amount of inter-operational stocks.
The efficient use of handling workers, handling means and locations for placing material and semi-finished products in production and intermediate warehouses ensures the planning of the work queue for handlers in accordance with the effective production flow and the location of material and semi-finished products at individual locations. An overview of the individual manipulations and utilization of workers and resources subsequently enables their use to be optimized and their efficiency to be increased.
Labels or guides with barcodes or QR codes are most commonly used to identify materials, blanks and shipments, as well as to mark locations, i.e. warehouse positions or workplaces. Other technologies based on RFID technologies or RTLS can also be used. Handling workers and handling devices are most often equipped with tablets for displaying the work queue and the location of materials and readers for loading materials, semi-finished products and storage locations.
The Intralogistics module can be fully connected to the customer's ERP or WMS system for the purpose of loading data on the stock status of the input material and sending back information on the material used and on the stocking of work-in-progress or finished products.
Within the Act-in MES system, the Intralogistics module mainly uses links to the Field Client, Production Scheduler or ANDON modules.
