In recent years, China’s fine chemical industry continues to increase investment in technological innovation, improve product quality and technical content, and promote the development of the industry to high-end, in order to improve the international competitiveness of domestic fine chemical products, so enterprises need to continuously improve their own management level, including production scheduling, production management, accounting management, human resource management, etc., to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises.

SERVOSTAR TM346 Recently, Beijing Hollysys Optimization Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as: Hollysys Optimization Company) incubated a fine chemical enterprise APS+ project. At present, the company mainly relies on manual or tabular methods for workshop scheduling, facing the problems of unbalanced production capacity of each line and frequent line change, hoping to improve the order delivery rate and equipment utilization rate to achieve maximum production capacity.

The advanced planning and scheduling system (APS+), which combines metamodels + NP+ algorithms, solves complex multi-level and multi-objective optimization problems through the nested segmentation architecture of metamodels.

After the research and analysis, the incubation project built a digital platform (APS+) for the production and operation planning and decision management of the enterprise, completed the integration with the enterprise’s original ERP, MES, Batch and other software systems, and developed an advanced optimization algorithm based on nested segmentation framework and a solver for the fine chemical industry. To achieve rapid response to changes in production site planning and scheduling, output high quality, high precision second-level scheduling results, improve factory production capacity and enhance the overall control and anti-risk ability.

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According to the current situation, modeling analysis is carried out, and after the completion of the project:
• Production efficiency improvement: increase the rationality and accuracy of the plan, output optimized production scheduling plan, and improve the utilization rate of extruder
• Improved resource utilization: Reduce equipment idle time and improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE)
• Improved delivery accuracy: Due to the visualization of order delivery time, the on-time delivery rate of customer orders will be significantly improved, shortening the delivery cycle and the cycle from SERVOSTAR TM346 receipt to delivery of orders, thereby enhancing market competitiveness

Hollysys Optimization company focuses on the field of manufacturing operation planning, production planning, shop scheduling, based on the CPS theory (Cyber-Physical Systems) and nested segmentation method, to establish a complete multi-level perception – analysis – decision – execution management control system, to create their own industrial brain for enterprises. For refined industries with heavy assets, high value, complex processes and formulations, and a very high degree of automation, optimizing plant scheduling plans and providing planning and scheduling analysis has important economic benefits for maximizing production capacity.

In the future, Hollysys Optimization company will uphold the technical innovation strength of product research and development and profound industry application practice, while deeply understanding the needs of industry users, especially in the fine chemical industry, continue to promote the intelligent transformation of industry users, develop new quality productivity, and actively promote the high-quality development of the fine chemical industry.