What Can Rhythm FP Do? Factory Planner provides a systematic and constraint-based planning concept
Factory Planner can help to minimize the current ad-hoc planning process
Factory Planner can quickly reveal the production constraint, which is almost impossible for traditional planning process
Rhythm FP Architecture Client-Server Architecture
Both server and client processes can run on Windows NT machines
May run server and client on separate machines
Use existing data (from Triton and SFCS)
Memory Resident
Multi-User capability
Rhythm FP Framework (cont.) FP requires ACCURATE and SUFFICIENT data input (garbage in & garbage out)
Open loop planning process in the first phase
Planners execute the production plan based on FP’s suggestion
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