Summary of Innovation
KNAPP’s redPILOT® Operational Excellence solution made waves 5 years ago when it won MHI’s IT Innovation award at Promat 2019. This first of its kind platform allowed for automated labor planning and real-time resource orchestration to ensure the right operators were in the right place at the right time to maximize productivity.
Since then, it has become clear that traditional order release based on simple cut off times is not sufficient to keep up with the demand on today’s complex fulfillment environment – which often converges manual and automated flows. Meaning, making the right decisions has become more complicated, while simultaneously seeing a record number of operational veterans leaving the workforce.
In response, redPILOT® has developed the AI-powered Work Scheduler module, tying together order pools with unpredictable order profiles with the resources who must fulfill them. redPILOT® Work Scheduler optimizes order release by analyzing pending work, real-time labor data, and automation capacity to determine the most efficient strategy. This ensures future orders released will not cause gridlock in one area, while another goes dry..
This creates a balanced distribution of work that always keep automation and workstations busy. The experienced result is a significant boost to both labor and equipment utilization. With Work Scheduler, critical cutoff times are met, while allowing for additional work to be processed concurrently.
Innovation Statement
While AI has rapidly become an industry buzzword, redPILOT® Work Scheduler actually leverages self-learning algorithms to solve a real challenge that production controllers and operations face every day. With this intelligence running in the background, Work Scheduler will constantly monitor your order pool, optimizing the order release strategy as input data changes.
Applicability
With redPILOT® Work Scheduler, value chain operations can now strike a balance between resource availability and order release optimization like never before. redPILOT® Work Scheduler ensures maximum utilization of both personnel and equipment despite high variability in order profiles and process flows.
| Posted Date | 1/22/24 |
| Contact | Gasper Gulotta |
| Contact Email | gasper.gulotta[at]knapp.com |
| Category | Best Innovation of an Existing Product |