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Software for production planning in cement plants

ABB has launched Knowledge Manager Production Scheduler, a new software solution to manage and optimize production scheduling in cement plants.

It provides the customers with optimal planning functionalities based on real-time information, considering production goals, business constraints as well as volatile energy tariffs to increase the overall process efficiency.

Frequently varying production constraints in a cement plant – like lower performance of equipment, fast increasing material stock or failure in one of the production lines – demand immediate adjustments in the production schedule. Thus, production scheduling is one of the most important activities for plant or production managers in order to achieve maximal operational efficiency.

The solution has been successfully tested for over a year at selected pilot plants at Holcim, one of the world’s leading cement and building materials company, leading to the decision of rolling out the Production Scheduler globally. Over 20 installations have been completed during 2014, with more planned for the coming months.

The Production Scheduler is a new add-on to Knowledge Manager, one of ABB’s Collaborative Production Management solutions (CPM) for cement industries.

Knowledge Manager collects, stores, consolidates and presents relevant information while making it easily accessible to all relevant stakeholders. With ABB’s CPM solutions all operation, control, optimization and business systems are integrated into one.

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