AI Planning

Production planning with artificial intelligence

Production planning can be very time-consuming and complex, in particular if a great number of orders and operations related to each other is involved. A manual planning quickly reaches its limits. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) offers a means to manage this complexity in planning.

The mApp AI Planning uses reinforcement learning, a field-proven AI method, to allocate operations to machines and resources in the best possible way. The user defines the optimization objectives such as minimizing setup times or ensuring compliance with deadlines.

If configured accordingly, the planning with artificial intelligence also integrates the availability of material and personnel. After the automatic planning run, the user can still change or refine the planning result.

Benefits of AI Planning

Significantly reduce planning costs and profit from the global optimization of artificial intelligence. Increase productivity in your company.

Technical information

The mApp AI Planning is included in the Advanced Scheduling and Optimization category of the APS FEDRA.

The mApp uses data of the Virtual Production Reality (ViPR) of MPDV's Manufacturing Integration Platform (MIP).

AI Planning in the MIP ecosystem

There are different methods used in production planning. MPDV provides the following mApps for this purpose:

• Detailed Scheduling: Simple planning of production orders
• Rule-Designed Planning: Automatic planning according to defined rules
• Simulation: Compare different planning scenarios

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