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Charting

Model transformations create the optimal production sequence, taking into account the timing of raw materials, deadlines and many other factors. This ensures perfect synchronization between lines and increases operational efficiency

Operator Planning

Human resources are deployed in the most efficient way. xS Planner makes optimum assignments by taking into account parameters such as operators' performance and working hours.

Manual Intervention and Optimal Operations

The user can make the desired changes on the fly, intervening on the models to achieve the best results. This contributes to reducing errors and unnecessary work.

Line Balancing

Maximum theoretical line efficiency is targeted. The line can be balanced automatically or manually, either at a set tempo or with a set number of operators.

Flexible Production Campus and Changing Products

The xS Planner garment package enables you to overcome these challenges with the power of the standard xS Planner planning software in a simple application package.

Çizelgeleme

Model dönüşümleri, hammaddelerin zamanlaması, termin tarihleri ve daha birçok faktörü dikkate alarak en uygun üretim sıralamasını oluşturur. Bu, hatlar arasında mükemmel bir senkronizasyon sağlar ve operasyonel etkinliği artırır.

Operatör Planlama

İnsan kaynaklarının en verimli şekilde yerleştirilmesi sağlanır. xS Planner, operatörlerin performansları, çalışma saatleri gibi parametreleri dikkate alarak optimum atamaları yapar.

Manuel Müdahale ve Optimum İşlemler

Kullanıcı, istediği değişiklikleri anında yapabilir, modeller üzerinde müdahalelerle en iyi sonuçları elde eder. Bu, hataların ve gereksiz işlerin azalmasına katkıda bulunur.

Hat Dengeleme

Maksimum teorik hat verimliliği hedeflenir. İster belirlenen bir tempo, ister belirli operatör sayısıyla otomatik ya da manuel olarak hat dengelenebilir.

Esnek Üretim Yerleşkesi ve Değişen Ürünler

xS Planner konfeksiyon paketi, standart xS Planner planlama yazılımının sunduğu güçle, bu zorlukları basit bir uygulama paketiyle aşmanızı sağlar.

Garment

NEXT GENERATION PLANNING: ADVANCED PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION WITH XS PLANNER
Novalab brings a breath of fresh air to the sector with its innovative solutions in the field of advanced planning and optimization. Even in industries with ever-changing and demanding needs, such as apparel, xS Planner's flexible and powerful structure offers the opportunity to manage production and planning processes in a simple, optimized and effective way.
Garment manufacturing is shaped by the dynamic nature of customer demands and constantly changing trends. The life-cycle lengths of the products are short and the manufacturers usually have a very short lead time between inception and manufacturing. The most important problems related to this industry is line balancing for sewing, operator assignment for matching groups of operations with the best possible operators and scheduling products over sewing lines and shifts to ensure smooth execution of all activities from raw material supply to shipments.

Line balancing for sewing is more complicated than that for assembly lines because the layout of the sewing lines can be organized in many different configurations. The quality of the line balancing will determine not only the throughput, but also the efficiency of the sewing line. Another important aspect that must be taken into account is maintaining the lean flow of products over the line. There are two possible approaches that may be employed while balancing a sewing line, namely, identifying the line balancing alternatives while targeting a certain takt time and identifying the line balancing alternatives for a given range for the number of operators. While line balancing is a very important planning activity for profitability in this industry, the short lead time between design and manufacturing phases makes it very difficult to collect reliable time study data, which in turn, makes generating reliable line balancing plans to be acted upon very difficult before the first manufacturing run.

Line balancing provides only the theoretical structure of the sewing lines – the groups of operations to be assigned to operators. Another important aspect is to determine the most suitable operator assignment for each line for each shift to each operation group which may change due to absence or changing skill sets of operators. Hence, operator assignment is a problem that must be solved for each shift. While it is important to maintain a pool of operators with cross skill sets to ease the severity of the operator assignment problem, it may not be always possible to have a pool with a uniform skill set. In such cases, maintaining best possible operator assignments shift-in- shift-out is very important to maintain an acceptable quality level. Operator assignment process requires line balancing solutions to be available to have access to operation groups. Furthermore, it also requires skills and associated levels to be maintained for each operator in addition to the skills required by each operation. Again, maintaining operator skill data and required skills data for each operation with the very short available lead time make it very difficult to generate realistic operator assignment plans before the first manufacturing run.

 

Scheduling for garment manufacturing is mainly driven by scheduling products over sewing lines but this process must also consider the preceding spreading and cutting in addition to succeeding washing, finishing and packaging processes. Some products may only be manufactured during specific shifts. Raw material arrival times and due dates must be taken into account. Synchronization between different lines such as jacket and pants lines for suits is also important for properly managing the succeeding processes before and after sewing. One final important aspect is smoothing out the changeovers between different products sewed on the same lines. While much of the sequence is dictated by the tight deadlines, there may still be some degrees of freedom left to smooth out the changeovers to reduce lost times while changing the configuration of the line.

 

The output of these planning processes can sometimes be very difficult interpret with all their implications. NovaLab’s planning software, xS Planner, provides interactive raw material requirements plan view in addition to warnings related to various aspects of the plan such as late orders and a dashboard for KPIs.

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