Actenum DSO: Optimize your production operations
Simplified production planning and scheduling
Actenum DSO (Decision Support and Optimization) simplifies and improves production planning and scheduling. It enables you to:
- Automatically allocate resources to activities in an optimal sequence, rapidly and reliably;
- Make effective decisions about the best way to respond to changes and disruptions in your operations;
- Focus on your targets as you create and evaluate plan/schedule scenarios, so that you can select the optimal alternative.
Optimal resource allocation
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Actenum DSO automatically finds the best way of allocating resources to activities. Instead of working out plans and schedules manually using the limited support available in traditional software tools, you can use DSO's advanced optimizer to create multiple scenarios, while balancing tradeoffs and ensuring that all of your operational and business constraints are met.
You simply prepare the input data, and Actenum DSO does the work.
Powerful decision support
Actenum DSO links scenarios to your performance targets, such as production output, costs, and cycle times. When you decide to update a scenario to reflect an operational change or disruption, you receive immediate feedback about the impact on your key performance indicators, no matter how complex your operations are, or how much change and disruption you experience.
Focus on your targets
Actenum DSO's intuitive usability and predictive analytic features make it easy to to prepare your production plan or schedule while you focus on your targets and use your expert knowledge to fine tune results. You no longer need to spend time and effort to manually recalculate outcomes each time you make adjustments: DSO handles that automatically.
DSO also provides powerful “what if” evaluation capabilities, so that you can rapidly generate, assess, and score various resource allocation options, and select the optimal alternative. And DSO incorporates a “goal seeking” capability that provides a fast way of generating optimal solutions that satisfy divisional and corporate targets.
Configurable to meet your needs
Actenum DSO is designed to address a wide variety of production planning and scheduling situations, while ensuring that organizational- and operational-specific decision support requirements are met. You can rapidly and effectively configure and deploy model-based decision support and optimization applications that handle your production operations.
Plug-in architecture
Actenum DSO features a “plug-in” architecture that supports the use of common software tools, such as MS-Excel and MS-Project, enabling rapid evaluation and optimization of existing operational plans and schedules. As well, DSO may be integrated with external applications, such as commonly-used ERP and EAM/CMMS products.
Actenum DSO benefits
- Right asset, right place, right time
- Predictable production output
- Improved production availability/minimized deferred production and costs
- Increased operating efficiency and maximized performance
- Enhanced recovery from planned and unplanned downtime or equipment status
- Rapid and strategic decision-making