Rhythm Planning & Scheduling System [i2 Technologies]

Manufacturing Resource Planning and Control

Rhythm Planning & Scheduling System

i2 Technologies

i2 Technologies features Rhythm, intelligent manufacturing planning andscheduling software. Rhythm synchronizes your operations and optimizescapacity. Rhythm solves your Master Production Scheduling (MS), CapacityRequirements Planning (CRP) and Finite Scheduling problems. Rhythm,working in real time, optimizes material and capacity requirements,performs what-if analysis, and offers multi-plant planning. 3M, Black &Decker, Caterpillar, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Motorola, and Timken Steelconcluded their search with i2 Technologies.Rhythm is built around i2 Technologies' proprietary Constraint AnchoredOptimization (CAO) methodology, which determines the constraints tomoving material through the factory and into customer hands. Rhythm thenschedules upstream and downstream from the constraint to produce aschedule that optimizes performance for customer needs.There are three modules within the Rhythm family. Rhythm MPPSautomatically generates production plans for a department, plant ornetwork of plants. Rhythm Dynamic Scheduler (DS) understands the short-term dynamics of the plant floor, to re-prioritize jobs as necessary.Rhythm Interplant coordinates the flow of material and capacity betweenplants.

Language: C++
Source Avail: No
Product Special Handling: None.
Operating Systems: Solaris Sparc 1.0,2.0,2.1,2.2

i2 Technologies
909 E Las Colinas Blvd 16th Floor
Irving, TX 75039
USA
Phone: (214) 860-6000
(800) 800-3288
Fax: (214) 406-1183