Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company

Production scheduling in company SLB requires significant manual planning power due to the large volume of work orders. SLB is looking for alternatives to replace manual planning with computer planning to save planning costs and realize its investment on Adexa. Adexa is a tool which can generate opt...

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Main Author: Wang, Xiaojun
Other Authors: Rohit Bhatnagar
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60583
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description Production scheduling in company SLB requires significant manual planning power due to the large volume of work orders. SLB is looking for alternatives to replace manual planning with computer planning to save planning costs and realize its investment on Adexa. Adexa is a tool which can generate optimized production schedules for manufacturing companies. This thesis project studies the foundry production scheduling using Adexa in SLB. The available capacity for work centers and production process flows in foundry and stage machining are studied. Adexa model for foundry is built by defining the inputs of the work centers. The inputs are further fine-tuned based on the loading percentage calculations. A test case for foundry is designed to investigate the planning logic of Adexa in balancing the demand with supply. The result shows that Adexa’s planning logic matches the SLB’s manual planning logic. Lastly, results of trial runs of Adexa without capacity constraint are obtained. Feasible solutions are proposed to SLB for the identified implementation challenges of Adexa.
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spelling ntu-10356/605832023-05-19T07:08:18Z Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company Wang, Xiaojun Rohit Bhatnagar Nanyang Business School SLB Singapore-MIT Alliance Programme DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing Production scheduling in company SLB requires significant manual planning power due to the large volume of work orders. SLB is looking for alternatives to replace manual planning with computer planning to save planning costs and realize its investment on Adexa. Adexa is a tool which can generate optimized production schedules for manufacturing companies. This thesis project studies the foundry production scheduling using Adexa in SLB. The available capacity for work centers and production process flows in foundry and stage machining are studied. Adexa model for foundry is built by defining the inputs of the work centers. The inputs are further fine-tuned based on the loading percentage calculations. A test case for foundry is designed to investigate the planning logic of Adexa in balancing the demand with supply. The result shows that Adexa’s planning logic matches the SLB’s manual planning logic. Lastly, results of trial runs of Adexa without capacity constraint are obtained. Feasible solutions are proposed to SLB for the identified implementation challenges of Adexa. ​Master of Science (IMST) 2014-05-28T08:50:26Z 2014-05-28T08:50:26Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60583 en 70 p. application/pdf
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Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
title Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
title_full Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
title_fullStr Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
title_full_unstemmed Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
title_short Foundry production scheduling by Adexa in an oilfield service company
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