u-APS
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
u-APS leverages order demand, equipment configurations, capacity constraints, and historical production data, applying smart manufacturing technologies combined with an optimization engine. Based on each factory’s characteristics, the system automatically builds capacity models, quickly predicts the cycle time and load of each product at every workstation on a daily basis, and accurately estimates overall capacity. It then generates optimal loading plans and material requirements, meeting multi-objective production planning needs. The system supports daily, weekly, and monthly plans, optimizes bottleneck scheduling, maximizes bottleneck utilization, enhances on-time delivery performance, and drives capacity and profit maximization—providing managers with an efficient and precise decision-making tool.
─ Key Advantages ─
Smart Manufacturing Technologies & Optimization Engine
Leveraging semiconductor-proven smart manufacturing technologies and optimization engines, the solution has been validated by numerous factories as the most efficient and accurate method to manage complex production planning. It replaces manual operations and outdated simulation techniques that are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone.
Professional IT Team
Backed by a team with extensive IT and manufacturing experience, specializing in smart manufacturing for over a decade. The system is fully self-developed and has been successfully deployed in multiple complex environments, earning recognition from international clients. The team ensures project objectives are met and customer needs are fully supported.
Minimized Data Integration & Maintenance Effort
Whether or not MES is available, existing production data can be seamlessly integrated via databases or Excel. The system automatically learns from historical production data to build models, minimizing the need for customer-side data maintenance and configuration.
High Product Maturity &
Compatibility
u-APS is highly mature and has been applied across multiple industries. Its functionalities have been validated through numerous successful customer deployments. The system adapts quickly to different manufacturing environments, ensuring seamless implementation with minimal friction, enabling customers to achieve value within a short timeframe.
Benefits
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Shorter Production Cycle Time
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Reduced Labor Costs
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Improved Overall Productivity & On-Time Delivery
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A Quantifiable, Visual Cross-Department Communication Platform to Enhance Production–Sales Coordination
Frequent Supply Chain Fluctuations
Increasingly Complex Process Conditions
Time-consuming & Inefficient Scheduling
High variability in upstream and downstream capacity and delivery schedules—such as sudden order changes, cancellations, or urgent requests—creates insufficient time for decision-making and increases operational risk.
As product technologies advance, manufacturing processes become more complex and restrictive. Traditional APS systems struggle to generate feasible production plans under numerous constraints, let alone optimized ones.
Existing scheduling systems often require long runtime and heavy manual intervention, resulting in inefficiencies and plans that cannot keep up with real-time changes.
Excessive Lead Time
Low Confidence Due to Manual Data Settings
Frequent Changes in Customer Requirements
Long production cycles, excessive waiting WIP, and inefficient material flow increase storage and inventory costs—yet most factories lack analytical tools to identify root causes or actionable strategies.
Heavy reliance on manual data input and maintenance leads to doubt in scheduling accuracy, affecting trust in planning results and undermining execution on the shop floor.
Customers often cancel or add orders on short notice, resulting in increasingly frequent demand fluctuations and schedule changes.
─ Solutions ─
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Dynamic Production Planning
Automatically generates production and loading plans based on order status and shop-floor conditions. Sets daily goals for each workstation, provides daily/weekly/monthly production plans, and optimizes bottleneck scheduling to stabilize the production line and maximize capacity.
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Flexible Process Control
Integrates process restrictions and production conditions to quickly build capacity models and predict load. Dynamically optimizes scheduling and resource allocation to handle variable production environments and strict constraints.
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Smart Generation of Optimal Schedules
Produces optimal schedules under multi-objective conditions, adjusts cycle time to maintain WIP balance, improves bottleneck utilization, and reduces manpower and time costs—ensuring consistent optimized results.
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Accurate Material Requirement Forecasting
Based on production and loading plans, the system predicts future material demand and loading timing. Considering inventory and lead-time constraints, it adjusts procurement strategies and improves inventory management.
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Fast Simulation & Schedule Adjustment
Instantly integrates upstream and downstream capacity and delivery information. Quickly simulates and adjusts schedules, optimizes bottleneck stations and cross-line coordination, and maintains stable delivery performance.
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Enhanced Capacity & Production Efficiency
Optimizes flow by reducing excessive waiting time, balancing non-bottleneck workstation rhythms, managing input/output pacing to support bottleneck operations, and providing optimized schedules to improve overall throughput.