New TROPOS Applications that work the way you do

The first generation of TROPOS Role Based Applications (RBA) were designed to make existing TROPOS menu-driven transactions faster and easier to use by creating an intuitive user interface with funcionality presented according the the role of the user.

Now the RBAs have been taken a step further by developing enhanced RBAs that add significant new funcionality though an interactive interface. This new approach is ideal for the key production planning, scheduling and data capture functions in a fast-moving production business. The following RBAs are amongst those available:

• Forecast Management and Prduction Planning
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning
• Production Scheduling
• Touch-Screen Shop Floor Systems
• Hand-held Shop Floor Systems

Forecast Management and Production Planning

A powerful RBA to manage production planning from forecast maintenance, through demand and supply balancing, to MRP control

• Manage and view forecasts and plans
• Compare forecasts with orders as tables and graphs
• View, compare and manage demand and supply lines as an interactive table
• Launch and manage production orders from the plan
• Point-and-click MRP actions
• Purchase order actions grouped by supplier

Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)

Model forward capacity planning profiles by product or group, to develop achievable schedules

• Create rough cut profiles by critical resources
• Calculate load on resources
• Display capacity, load, overload
• Drill down from load to source
• Modify resource availability to meet plan

Production Scheduling

TROPOS Production Scheduling RBA is a Planners Workbench application that takes production orders generated in TROPOS (either with standard TROPOS functions or using the Production Planning RBA) and provides an interactive graphical sequencing system. Orders are displayed as a planning board, table or both. This allows the planner to allocate orders to resources quickly and efficiently

• Manage extensive sequencing criteria, day and shift times
• Align orders to maintain manufacturing sequence efficiency
• Manage changeover
• Split orders to increase throughput
• Drag-and-drop maintenance for fine tuning

Touch-Screen Shop Floor Systems

Touch-screen application suite for shop floor industrial terminals, ideal for flow-line manufacture and food processing.

• Display job queues, recipes/formulae, instructions
• Stock issues and movements
• Start and stop jobs, move jobs, resources
• Record samples, quality test results and rejects
• End of shift tidy-up, returns, reconciliation

Hand-held Shop Floor Systems

Run TROPOS applications on hand-held or truck-mounted RF devices with real-time enquiry, validation and update.

• Record goods inwards and put-aways
• Stock issues and movements
• Start and stop jobs, move jobs, resources
• Record samples, quality test results and rejects

Pease contact your SSI Account Manager for details of forthcoming RBA Review Workshops.