Holistic and digital planning with CENIT
Thinking Production Planning
and Control Digitally
Integrated Production Planning and Control: Prepared for the Unpredictable
Global uncertainties, disrupted supply chains, and increasing product variety are raising the complexity of industrial manufacturing processes. To produce efficiently and economically in this environment, a holistic, digitally connected production planning and control system is essential.
CENIT offers digital solutions that help you optimize resource utilization, shorten lead times, and ensure a stable material flow. This improves on-time delivery and enhances customer satisfaction.
The foundation for this is continuous, cross-departmental information sharing, providing all process participants with real-time access to current data. Only with fully connected processes is it possible to make well-informed decisions in real time and respond flexibly to disruptions.
Resilience in digital planning production: Agile despite uncertainties
Planned and integrated controlled production creates the necessary resilience to maintain action capacity even in case of unexpected disruptions. Whether it is about unplanned machine stop or missing elements, companies that systematically planned their processes, and cross connected them digitally, can rearrange flexibly, thereby ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Furthermore, intelligent production control leads significantly to optimization of the production items and to the improvement of cost structure. Continuously planned processes minimize waste, improve machines’ use and ensure stabile flows across the entire value chain.
CENIT offers the technological and methodological tools to holistically digitize production planning and control. This allows companies to always maintain control, even in complex, dynamic manufacturing environments.
Data-Based Planning: Predictive Production Planning
Production planning starts with converting engineering data into manufacturing-ready information, for example, by creating a Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM), defining work plans (routing), and production sequences.
Integrating PLM, ERP, and MES systems creates a consistent data foundation, which is essential for transparent, cross-departmental planning. Tools like Advanced Planning Systems (APS) go beyond traditional PPS systems and can:
- Simulate planning scenarios
- Calculate optimal capacity utilization
- Support short-term (re-)planning
- Automate planning steps based on optimization algorithms
This flexibility allows you to identify the best production scenarios, minimize risks, and accelerate manufacturing decisions.
Production management
Planning implementation on the Shop Floor(in the production area) requires a high degree of flexibility and response speed. Modern solutions such as Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) form the operational center of production control: they connect machines, equipment and IT systems, collect production data in real time and set the basis for dynamic, quality ensured and traceable production.
CENIT offers modular management systems that:
- Dynamically manage your production
- Capture quality data without gaps
- Ensure traceability
- Continuously enhance production performance
This generates operational transparency that not only improves process control but also lays the groundwork for ongoing enhancements in production performance.
Virtual commissioning: Validation before first element
Virtual commissioning is a key tool in modern production planning. It allows for the complete digital testing and validation of manufacturing systems, automation processes, and control logic before physical implementation.
By combining 3D simulation and control technology, you can identify and resolve errors, collisions, and process issues early. This increases planning certainty, reduces risks, and significantly shortens commissioning times. Open interfaces and standardized formats allow for the easy integration of existing engineering data and automation components.
CENIT combines data, process simulations, and control technologies to create a comprehensive test bench in a virtual environment.
- Early detection of potential errors
- Significantly shorter commissioning times
- Minimized investment risk
- Faster time-to-production
This ensures that your production starts with confidence, even before the first physical component is manufactured.
Master your production planning with CENIT
A lot of companies plan their production still using internal Excel Files or they count on individual knowledge of their employees. However, low data quality, isolated systems, incomplete feedback from production and assembly put at risk the safety of planning and reduce flexibility.
Our advice: Adopt a holistic, digital production planning and control approach—integrated, scalable, and future-proof. With CENIT solutions, you can link MBOM, routing, MES/MOM, and virtual commissioning in a consistent data model. This ensures maximum control, even in dynamic manufacturing environments.
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Vice President Sales 3DS Solutions
CENIT AG