Steelman Steel Enterprise Management System - Steelman Steel Enterprise Management System

• Provisioning is used to determine if an inquiry can be made, and if it can, then determine the detailed route for manufacturing.
• Yield losses are calculated and accumulated at each manufacturing step.
• Inquiries with unacceptable yield losses can be flagged for review by Sales.
• The number of pieces (blooms, bars, coils, etc.) and steel weight produced at each work step are calculated, along with any stock generated.
• The final ship weight and piece count is optimized to manufacture the inquiry cost-effectively (minimum stock and scrap), with allowances made for customer defined or industry standard allowable shipping excesses.
• Outside processing can be incorporated for processes or sizes that cannot be handled with in-house equipment.
• Provisioning work instructions of any order item on demand based on user defined rules attached to the processes.
• Used to determine the proper ties and weight of feedstock that must be fed into each processing unit, and validates the manufacturing feasibility of the finished product at the time of inquiry given the current manufacturing facility capabilities.
• Dynamically determines the process routing through the entire production cycle based on the end product parameters and the production standards capabilities.
• Determines the route that will provide the optimal yield for the production, and the technical feasibility of producing an order through the work centers.
• Planning (For Mills Only)
• Book capacity at each work center based on the provisional route for an inquiry.
• Selects alternative routes to avoid capacity restrictions.
• Inquiries can be backward-planned (pull-manufacturing) to meet a customer’s target delivery date, or for ward-planned (push-manufacturing) to find the best available-to-promise date. Selects the best method for the inquiry.
• Minimizes transport by avoiding material movements between facilities.
• Graphs planned work-center loads into the future.
• Load leveling to balance planned work-center loads, which can be affected by equipment failure or maintenance, or poor schedule performance.
• Activity is off-line after business hours to avoid response- time degradation.
• Apportions work-center’s total capacity for selected types of inquiries or products. Reserved capacities can be time- released manually or automatically.
• Work center’s capacity can be selectively over-booked.
• Inquiries that are not confirmed are automatically expired and removed from the plan after a pre-set time period.
• Schedules maintenance or other down-times.

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