Module APS · Metalya APS
Advanced Planning & Scheduling
The factory navigator: from customer order to shipment, planned on real capacity.
Why it matters
Metalya APS is integrated with the shop floor and kept up to date with data from operators and machines. It lets you follow the whole production path from customer orders to shipping orders in a digital dashboard, so you can react quickly to unforeseen events. When materials arrive, tasks finish early or late, or a machine stops, the plan is recalculated on the latest data.
Plans you can deliver
Scheduling on the finite capacity of machines, people and equipment produces feasible plans.
Fast reaction to events
Material arrivals, delays and machine stops update the plan proposal on the latest data.
Reliable delivery dates
Capable to Promise checks current capacity and load before a date is given to the customer.
Replanning demo
See the impact. Decide. Release.
Pick a disruption. Compare doing nothing with a replanned draft — then release it.
Released plan for today: 8 orders across 5 machines. Pick a disruption to see how the plan reacts.
Metalya APS · recalculating on finite capacity…
Draft scenario v15 · created by impact analysis. Nothing changes on the shop floor until a planner releases it.
v15 released to the shop floor (simulation).
Order-by-order view
| Order | Product | Due | Completion | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WO-4803 | Frame FR-30 | 11:30 | 09:15 | On time |
| WO-4807 | Cover CV-18 | 15:00 | 10:10 | On time |
| WO-4801 | Bracket BR-12 | 16:00 | 13:45 | On time |
| WO-4802 | Cabinet door CD-4 | 19:00 | 15:25 | On time |
| WO-4804 | Base plate BP-7 | 20:30 | 18:40 | On time |
| WO-4805 | Housing AX-90 | 22:00 | 16:50 | On time |
| WO-4806 | Support arm SA-2 | 22:30 | 19:20 | On time |
| WO-4808 | Panel PN-55 | 00:00 | 20:35 | On time |
Key features
What it does
- 01
Complete visibility on planning
A single view of the production flow, from the entry of sales orders to the shipment of the finished product, with the required material lists and work sequences.
- 02
Material requirements
Calculates material requirements and shortage lists with expected delivery dates, so missing materials are supplied in time and delays are avoided.
- 03
Finite-capacity scheduling
Schedules machines and labour on the actual capacity of each work centre and its calendar, taking into account constraints such as equipment, people, space and energy. The result is a realistic, feasible plan and better on-time delivery.
- 04
Interactive Gantt
Visualisation, highlighting, analysis, lot split and drag & drop let planners adjust the proposed plan and share it across teams.
- 05
What-if scenarios
Simulate different operating scenarios and compare the effects of alternative scheduling choices before committing to one.
- 06
Event-driven rescheduling
Recalculates an updated plan proposal when events occur, considering ongoing and blocked activities, material delivery dates, order priorities and secondary resources. The planner reviews and releases it.
- 07
Capable to Promise (CTP)
Answers customer enquiries on availability and delivery dates by checking current capacity and load, and proposes a date the company can realistically meet.
- 08
Analysis and reporting
Configurable dashboards and visual tools show the main scheduling and production indicators, helping you monitor performance and find areas for improvement.
Scheduling engine
A schedule you can actually run.
Finite capacity
Every operation placed on a machine with real availability: plant calendars, shifts, parallel capacity and maintenance windows.
Setups that matter
Sequence-dependent setups by product attributes — colour, tooling, material — with forbidden transitions.
Constraints
Hard and soft constraints in versioned profiles; crews, skills and secondary resources when you model them.
Material availability
Work starts only when stock or incoming purchase orders cover it; lots, expiry and substitutes considered; pegging to customer orders.
Dispatch strategies
Earliest due date, shortest processing time, critical ratio, bottleneck-first, setup- or cost-minimising, forward or backward.
Unscheduled, explained
Operations that cannot be placed are listed with the reason — no compatible machine, no time window, or a blocking predecessor.
Scenarios & decisions
Every plan is a version. Every change, a decision.
Plans move through a lifecycle. What-if scenarios branch from any version, are calculated on an isolated copy and compared before anyone commits.
- 01Draft
- 02Calculated
- 03Validated
- 04Approved
- 05Published
- What-if
Scenario branches
Change machines, operators, orders, routings or materials in a branch; compare KPIs and the diff with the current plan.
- Events
Impact analysis
Progress, completions and disruptions from production feed an impact analysis that prepares a draft — never an automatic publication.
- CTP
Capable-to-promise
Quote delivery dates against current load and capacity; a confirmed quote can become a sales order.
- KPIs
Measured plans
On-time rate, lateness, utilisation, bottleneck load, setups, lead time, WIP and cost — each with a declared formula.
A disruption, minute by minute
Production plans meet reality.
Planning runs on the same orders, machines, materials and progress as production. When reality changes, the impact is calculated at once — and a planner decides what to release.
Plan released
Plan v14 goes to the shop floor. Every work stage has a machine and a time.
Press brake B stops
The operator declares a downtime with its reason. The event reaches Metalya APS.
Capacity changes
Impact analysis recalculates from current progress: started work stays where it is.
Orders at risk
A draft scenario shows which orders would finish late and by how much.
Updated plan released
The planner releases v15. The shop floor receives the new sequence.
The factory navigator
Like a satellite navigator that recalculates the route when traffic changes, Metalya APS keeps the plan connected to what actually happens on the shop floor. Operators and machines report progress continuously, so every recalculation starts from the real situation, and the planner decides which proposal to release. Typical events that lead to an updated plan include the following.
Material availability
Arrivals or delays of raw materials and components change the dates on which operations can start.
Tasks finished early or late
An operation that ends ahead of or behind schedule shifts the operations that depend on it.
Machine downtime
A stop on a work centre reduces its available capacity and is taken into account when the plan is recalculated.
Changing priorities
When an order becomes more urgent, its new priority is reflected in the next plan proposal.
In the platform
One of the modules of Metalya Core. Every module shares one governed data model, so what happens here is immediately visible to planning, quality, materials and maintenance — and Metalya Studio adapts it to the way your plant works, with AI.
Works together with
- MOMManufacturing Operations ManagementManage, monitor and control production, built on a detailed model of how each product is made.
- WMSWarehouse Management & TraceabilityMaterial logistics tied to production, from goods receipt to delivery, with lot-level traceability.
- IOTMachine ConnectionDirect, two-way connection with machines of different ages and technologies, in real time.
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