company from Canada specialized in the development and implementation
of computerized management systems, has submitted a request for a
patent to the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) with
regards to the real time management and scheduling of manufacturing
production.
According to Dunin Technologie's president and co-founder, Mr. Serge
Dumoulin, this innovation entitled "dynamic scheduling" will offer
North American manufacturing companies an extremely efficient planning
tool, allowing them to substantially reduce their costs and production
delays thus increasing their competitiveness in the face of market
globalization.
Mr. Dumoulin specifies that the technology developed automatically
schedules the work to be done. Scheduling and routing are readjusted
in real time as events influencing production come into play. Unlike
classic dynamic scheduling systems that attempt to predict ahead of
time the work and tasks to be done, this new approach identifies,
based on a set of key factors, the next piece to be produced for a
given work cell while optimizing in real time all of the production
floor.
Mr. Dumoulin and his team have invested more than two years in
research and development in order to achieve, through mathematical
models and their own cutting-edge artificial intelligence module, this
dynamic scheduling technology innovation. According to him, "the
system simulates human logic to respect the business' priorities and
rules while optimizing all decision points."
Businesses facing challenges with their planning and the production of
their manufacturing units will greatly benefit from this technological
breakthrough. Dunin estimates that for a business that offers a range
of customized products, this technology will result in a 2% to 5%
increase in the annual net profit. Recent commercial tests tend to
confirm these estimations.
This "dynamic scheduling" is fully compatible with most ERPs currently
available on the market and with Dunin Technologie's own ERP,
Copernia(TM).
