Application Area - Production
L-Class, Bulgaria
"VARCHART XGantt is the most modern, versatile and handy Gantt control for diagrams and process optimization presently found on the market." (Nedelko Todorov, Director of Marketing and Business Development)
The ERP&ME System TECHNOCLASS of the Bulgarian software and consulting company L-CLASS is presently conquering the Eastern European market. TECHNOCLASS supports to plan business processes in all sections of an enterprise by an Enterprise Resource Planning system, while a Manufacturing Executing System plans tasks and workloads of machines and staff members in production plants. VARCHART XGantt is used to visualize many different charts in the TECHNOCLASS application.
The tool "MES Optimizer" for example optimizes the workload of the machines by scheduling their tasks that are to be worked off.
The workshop manager can choose between two different planning strategies: "minimal workload of machines" or "constant load". In addition, the production process can either be optimized according to the delivery date (JIT) or according to start date (ASAP). The resource scheduling module of VARCHART XGantt is used for optimizing procedures.
Helios-IT, Belgium and Netherlands
Helios-IT, located in Belgium and the Netherlands, is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and focuses on the automotive and beverage industry. Helios-IT developed an add-on solution using VARCHART XGantt for their client Boucherie.
Boucherie is a manufacturer of machines for making brooms as well as household and industrial brushes. For an efficient planning of the extensive and diverse machine shop for the toothbrush production cells a graphical scheduler became critical.
Helios-IT replaced the existing ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The production and resource planning charts within Dynamics NAV were realised using VARCHART XGantt. As these Gantt charts can be customized by using a VARCHART XGantt license from NETRONIC Software GmbH, Helios could easily add the extensions in order to fulfil the requirements of the Boucherie machine shop. The two main requirements for the scheduler are:
- Planning of complex production orders
- Micro-planning the shop floor
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV system in combination with a customized Gantt Chart enables Boucherie today to make better planning decisions and work more efficient then before.
dacore Datenbanksysteme AG, Heroldsberg, Germany
Dacore data base systems has developed a planning software that visualizes and schedules orders for different levels of an enterprise and that is based on VARCHART XGantt. Orders are visualized directly from the data of order administration and can be assigned to resources easily by drag & drop.
Individual calendars display the availability of a resource in detail. For holidays and other workfree periods a separate view can be used and scheduled dates are directly passed on to Microsoft Outlook or to the time recording software. Filters and the simultanous display of different planing levels even with numerous orders results in instant and concise charts. Different selection options allow to mark for example all orders of the same customer. Different time grids, zoom and printing functions complete the range of functions of this planning software.
Didelme Sistemi s.r.l., Castellanza, Italy
"In the past, we used a commercially available scheduler, but the operator interface was not at all friendly and it was impossible to customize the application according to our clients' needs. VARCHART XGantt with its number of methods, properties and events solved our problems brilliantly." (Luigi Borghi, General Manager)
JobScheduler is used to set up production times for the printing and binding shops of graphical industries. It shows resources load, evidence problems (overload, delay etc.) and allows the operator to move tasks among different compatible machines.
I.S.I.s.r.l., Casoni di Podenzano, Italy
The ICARO production plan management started from the longstanding experience in the field of the management of manufacturing processes to supply the planning and production plants management people with a simple and powerful decision making support.
ICARO is based on VARCHART XGantt and allows you to operate interactively on the active production plan so as to manage, in relation to a short period, situations different from what had been scheduled, due, for example, to breakdowns, to operators or resources unavailability, to delays in material delivery. The user has a set of procedures at his disposal that automates and controls the plan interventions, so as to provide operative solutions to the jobs and machine load planning, following the requested delivery dates and the plant production capability. ICARO can easily be interfaced with ERP and MES systems.
JOPP GmbH, Bad Neustadt, Germany
The graphical production control panel by JOOP is a VARCHART XGantt application which allows the supervisors to schedule and to monitor ongoing production tasks.
PDG Systemhaus, Pforzheim, Germany
The module Tool Construction is based on VARCHART XGantt and comprises planning, production and statistics / evaluation of the tools registered in the production plan of a device to be produced. In the production plan, for each production step of a device, the required tools / pieces lists of the tools can be allocated. Tool construction planning is done graphically by using Gantt charts. After dispatching, production orders for the tools to be produced are generated and can be printed as a chart. Different types of orders can be generated: orders for new productions, for replacements, for mending and overhauling. By periodical notifications the actual state of construction is realised and compared to the plan.
Different types of evaluations document the construction process of a new tool. To monitor the life cycle of a tool, a statistics on its use and a history of its repair and overhauling events are maintained.
based on online data from the production (production and machine data acquisition) allows for optimum present state planning in detail.
All the important information of the production process is present in the control panel. The user can recognize deviations promptly; he can interfere and settle the problems immediately. Integrated disposability analyses allow to verify the feasibility of intended actions. All data relevant for planning can be accessed by the user.
ssb GmbH, Munich, Germany
The Media-Planung control panel is the pivotal application in the DISO software, a solution for printing shops and industries based on VARCHART XGantt. In this client-server application all changements of planning are displayed graphically as colored bars.
A user can move the tasks, which are displayed as bars, simply by drag & drop to a different machine or to a different day. Interactions are checked for a number of plausibilities to ensure a failure-free flow of tasks. Messages from the machines are also graphically displayed to inform the user on current operations and their present state.
Thinkwise Software, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Thinkwise Software has developed a new graphical planning tool for ERP. It enables users to display a Gantt chart, to calculate "what-if" scenarios and to put up their plannings.
For this, two VARCHART XGantt components were connected in parallel. In the top chart, working times are displayed while in the bottom chart calculations and their results are indicated. Applying NETRONIC components allows for maximum versatility; problems are easy to solve. Getting an application to run is just comfortable. One can focus on the problems of the customer easily during the programming process. The support offered by NETRONIC proved very helpful and added to improve code efficiency and performance.
