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Production Planning for Plastics
In plastics production, mold life, cycle time and the regrind/recycling balance require functions to manage both the machine and the material side together. Manage production operations end to end — from bill of materials and routing to capacity planning, work orders and shop-floor tracking. Fully integrated with sales, purchasing and inventory; efficient, transparent and data-driven production.
Plastics context
Why Production Planning works differently in Plastics
In Plastics, plastics production center on sector-specific concepts such as injection-extrusion, mold management, raw-material/additive blend. In plastics production, mold life, cycle time and the regrind/recycling balance require functions to manage both the machine and the material side together.
Qera ERP's Production Planning module is set up around the reality of plastics: Schedules injection and extrusion jobs by mold availability and cycle time to reduce machine idle time.
- When the recipe (raw material, masterbatch, additive ratios) and scrap aren't calculated clearly, the true product cost is unknown.
- When mold usage, life and maintenance aren't tracked, unplanned downtime and quality issues arise.
- When regrind/recycled material isn't tracked, the material balance and cost don't add up.
Capabilities
How Qera Production Planning works in Plastics
The core capabilities of the Production Planning module, framed for the mold, cycle and raw-material blend needs of the plastics sector.
Bill of materials and routing definitions
Define raw material bills of materials (BOM) and operation routings for each product; manage recycling and scrap with teardown BOMs as well.
Capacity and scheduling
Create new plans, planned production runs and a production schedule that takes machine and labor capacity into account.
Pending planning
List approved but unplanned work orders and orders; distribute the workload effectively by seeing priority jobs.
Work orders
Define each production job as a work order containing materials, routing and planned dates; give the shop-floor team a clear roadmap.
Station and shift management
Monitor station states (idle, busy, faulty) in real time; manage operation start-end times and shift plans.
Production reports and dynamic analysis
Measure efficiency with production process, standard-vs-actual time, operation and work-order reports; see product profitability by combining with financial data.
Outcomes
What it delivers for your Plastics business
Concrete gains that show up in plastics operations when set up right.
- Guarantee accurate cost calculations with BOM and routing standardization.
- Reduce unplanned stoppages and bottlenecks with capacity-based scheduling.
- Make production transparent by collecting shop-floor data in real time.
- Pinpoint the source of efficiency losses with planned-vs-actual variance analysis.
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Related pages
Full details of the Production Planning module, the Plastics sector page and other Plastics solutions.
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