SchedulePro® SchedulePro® handles production scheduling, capacity analysis, modeling, and de-bottlenecking of multi-product facilities. Empowering Process Solutions

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Achieving operations goals and improving production performance can be a difficult task without a clear and detailed understanding of the facility functionality. Not having a common database for operations information and detailed process visualization can result in decreased productivity and unnecessary costs. SuperPro Designer® and SchedulePro® are highly effective modeling and scheduling software programs that are designed to help you improve the efficiency of your manufacturing process by tracking product streams, waste streams, labour and utility consumption. These two programs have been extensively used as an engineering design tool in industry, however they are much more than that. The information generated by SuperPro Designer® and SchedulePro® provides the user insight and possibilities for improvement in all aspects of a manufacturing facility. For example, the Accounting departments could use SuperPro Designer® and SchedulePro® for economic evaluation and profitability analysis of manufacturing processes. The Operations group would find SuperPro Designer® and SchedulePro® useful for to optimize the use of materials, equipment, resources and labour, ultimately saving both operating time and cost of operation. The Quality Assurance group would benefit from the programs by enhancing existing quality systems such as HACCP, Total Quality Management (TQM), SOP's and ISO. What area of involvement gets your attention?

Engineering-Related Features and Associated Benefits

• Ability to model multi-product facilities, thereby significantly enabling the scheduling of multiple products in a manner that will best optimize the use of available equipment and resources
• Focuses on scheduling of batch and semi-continuous chemical and related processes, thereby allowing various operations to be performed in a single unit procedure
• Recipe driven tool with emphasis on generation of feasible solutions improved by the user in an interactive manner
• Identify and resolve common bottlenecks (eg. CIP skids) by sharing equipment and resources which increases productivity and quality while decreasing production costs
• Pool of equipment available to all operations which allows for finding solutions to reduce cycle times
• Option to export process from SuperPro Designer^® into SchedulePro^® or start new case in SchedulePro^®, allowing for quick and easy case initiation

Operations-Related Features and Associated Benefits

• Finite capacity scheduling tool with the ability to generate resource consumption charts, inventory profiles and utilization charts, all of which can aid in identifying opportunities for process improvement
• A production schedule can be readily updated through the Gantt chart when unexpected downtimes occur
• Scheduling tools enable manufacturing personnel to readily visualize and resolve labor and resource-related conflicts
• Enables manufacturing personnel to maintain a dynamic model of the entire facility that evolves with time. Facilitates the generation of production schedules that are feasible and easily modifiable

Financial Analysis or Cost Reduction-Related Features and Associated Benefits

• Finite capacity scheduling tool with the ability to generate resource consumption charts, inventory profiles and utilization charts, all of which can aid in identifying opportunities for process improvement
• End result of effective scheduling is increased productivity, improved customer service, and reduced manufacturing cost

Research and Development-Related Features and Associates Benefits

• Ability to model multi-product facilities, thereby significantly enabling the integration of the proposed new product/process into the facility's existing schedule in a manner that will best optimize the use of available equipment and resources
• Can account for equipment changeover, setup times, facility downtimes and other product-related scheduling tasks in order to obtain an approximate batch time of a process under consideration

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