2003 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference Business Competitive Advantage through Advanced Planning Simulator

摘要

In today's agile technology, the changing innovation is extremely fast as well as the significant dynamic changing in customer demand. The traditional solutions are often not robust enough to provide the optimum solution for the complex IC business environment. Advanced Production Simulator (APS) is the new solution for today's IC manufacturing. With the integration of enterprise's global forecast and demand, manufacturing process explosion, real-time shop floor responsiveness, inventory adjustment system, online plant capacity and expert modules, APS can generate a very flexible and realistic plan with the optimum output on profit margins, revenue growth, customer satisfaction and plant resource performance under feasible constraints. APS synchronizes material flow with dynamic bottleneck, helps planners make the decisions needed to meet the demand for finished products and drives lean manufacturing principles in order to gain the business competitive advantages. Of the particular innovative and complicated technology changes in the IC industry, APS considers the mix change on customer demand, problem solving learning curve on product life cycle, especially new product launching, and resource availability and limitation. Simultaneously. It provides the superb business solution through resource business rules and priorities by an operation research (OR) mechanism and supply chain management, which obviously brings the key success to the high business competition.