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What is Plan to Produce (Pl2P)?

Plan-to-Produce (Pl2P) encompasses an end-to-end perspective on producing goods. It depicts the shop-floor procedures and focusses on the integration of surrounding aspects into production processes.

In this way, reference content can be provided despite production being highly specific to industry, company, plant and production area.

The domain is structured into three main scenario clusters for

general production,

corrective production,

subcontracting services, and

plant maintenance.

The process flow generally shows scheduling, production preparation, operative production/manufacturing as well as the necessary postings.

As the most important interfaces, the following need to be considered: Production planning (Forecast-to-Plan), Production supply and warehousing (Inbound-to-Outbound) and Quality control (Inspect-to-Quality).


Scenarios in this domain differentiate process industry from discrete manufacturing. Influences of maturity of shop-floor integration and digitization from manual operations with paper-based documentation up to fully automated setups with MES are incorporated.

The models also depict different production strategies such as M2O (Make-to-Order), M2S (Make-to-Stock), A2O (Assemble-to-Order) or consideration of production campaigns.

Furthermore, the quality control integration either in process or post production maybe using special LIMS is a central aspect of the Plan-to-Produce domain.


This well-structured reference content is enhanced by our advisory notes, which take it a further step.

By highlighting, for example,

decoupling points,

bottleneck,

data quality issues and

impact on stock levels

the reference content gets even more tangible and valuable for process optimization as well as for scoping and design sessions.


Production

  • Make-to-Stock (Process industry manufacturing with shop-floor papers)

  • Make-to-stock (Process industry manufacturing with digital manufacturing cloud)

  • Make-to-stock (Discrete industry manufacturing)

  • Make-To-Stock (Discrete industry manufacturing with MES)

  • Repetitive manufacturing

  • Make-To-Stock with Silo Material (Process industry manufacturing)

  • Make-to-order (Process industry manufacturing)

  • Make-to-order (Discrete industry manufacturing)

  • Assemble-to-Order

  • Campaign production with manufacturing execution system

Corrective production

  • Re-working

  • Re-work (In-process)

  • Re-filling / re-packaging

  • Recycling

Subcontracting services

  • Active subcontracting

  • External processing

Plant maintenance

  • Preventive maintenance

  • Corrective maintenance

  • Emergency maintenance

  • Operational and Overhead maintenance

  • Repair and refurbishment

  • Decommissioning of assets


 
 

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