What is the challenge?
The conversation starts from one decision in your operation, and how it gets made today.
Manufacturing
Every decision, with the whole plant in view.
Supply, production, quality and shipping, with the uncertainty in demand, lead times and machine availability already inside the plan. Want to know how?
Common situations
What holds your operation back the most today?
These four show up in very different plants, and they rarely have a single cause.
Excess stock and stockouts
One item piles up while another runs out in the same month.
Idle production capacity
One line sits idle while the next builds a queue.
More rework than expected
The defect shows up once the part is finished.
Late shipments and partial invoicing
The order ships after the date, or ships half full.
Approach
How we’ll start our journey together
Three questions guide how the work starts, in this order.
Which tools fit it?
Optimization, simulation or AI, depending on the challenge. Sometimes more than one, running together.
What is the return?
The return is estimated before we start, and the decision to go ahead is yours. Results are measured afterwards.
- Data
- Technology
- Decisions
- Results
In practice
What we have built in manufacturing
From production scheduling to detecting losses on the line.
Production Scheduling Optimization
On the composite parts line, planning has to balance operator skills, workstations, resource constraints and nesting.
Multi-Agent AGV Fleet Optimization
As the AGV fleet gets denser on shared routes and drop-off points, rule-based heuristics often fall short, and congestion builds up.
Real-Time Performance Drift Detection
Monitoring easily catches unplanned stops and defects. Slowdowns and other subtle losses, on the other hand, rarely get noticed.
The chain
A decision at one stage changes the math at the next
Replenishing stock changes the queue on the line, and the queue on the line changes the date the plant promises. Each of them comes out better with the others in view.
Supply
Stock replenishment. How much of each SKU to reorder, and when.
Transport and warehousing
Routing and layout. Which path each vehicle takes, and where each item sits in the warehouse.
Production
Production scheduling. What runs on each line, and in what order.
Quality control. The problem shows up while the part is still in production.
Warehousing and shipping
Picking and dispatch. How to prepare the order with less travel, and ship it on time.
Delivery
Demand forecasting. Which dates and volumes the plant can meet.
Contact
Let’s talk about your plant.
Tell us about one decision you make every week and would like to make with more confidence.
If it isn’t worth it, we’ll say so. No obligation, no sales deck.
Aster Santana
CEO · Sr. Decision Scientist