Vortex Demand-Pull Production Execution Software (Transcribed Text)
Is your manufacturing environment order driven?
Do you engineer to order or customize to order?
Do your spaghetti diagrams truly resemble ... spaghetti?
If you struggle with production cycle times that are too long and inventories that are too high, we have a solution, introducing Vortex, a shop floor control system designed to minimize your production cycle time and reduce inventory.
Vortex works to pull production through your factory exactly when it's needed. It predicts when a work center will be in need of more work, identifies the highest priority batch in all upstream work centers and then authorizes the batch to be started just at the right time for it to reach the work center exactly when it is needed.
Upstream work is only released if there is downstream demand thus implementing one of the basic tenants of lean manufacturing: demand pull production in the high-variety order driven factory. Sounds simple right? In theory yes. However, if you're talking dozens of work centers and dozens of work flows and varying batches of sizes and flow times predicting the time at which there is more work than currently authorized for production will be needed, can very quickly get complicated.
The real time calculations pile up pretty fast.
Vortex streamlines the thousand of computations with a patent-pending algorithm which works to not only synthesize all of the math but also integrate those solutions directly into your production system.
Vortex is modern standards based API, and is compatible with most ERP and shop floor control systems. The fully featured API allows your ERP and other internal systems to always stay up-to-date with the status of work on the shop floor.
Vortex relies on your existing ERP system to create work orders according to your existing planning policies and inject them into the sytem through the API.
From there, Vortex handles the starts into each work center based on demand pull policies and minimizing both cycle time and work in process inventories.
Check out our demo based on the following five products with invidual work flows through ten work centers.
