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by Lauren Brousell, Contributing Editor   | Abstract: | Software addresses the complexities of manufacturing planning, scheduling, and sequencing, mostly for automotive customers. |
| Keywords: | complexities of manufacturing planning, scheduling, and sequencing |
Optessa, a provider of planning, sequencing, and scheduling solutions for manufacturing companies, is the developer of the Optessa MLS and MLP systems.
Generating assembly line schedules, Optessa MLS, in batch and real-time versions, aims to reduce costs and delivery lead times. Optessa MLP is a planning system that looks at forecasted demand and produces schedules for multi-plant and multi-line planning. In auto manufacturing, Optessa's applications receive orders from ERP systems and sequence them using virtual assembly lines.
The company's goal since its founding in 2001 has been to simplify scheduling challenges for its clients, says CEO and co-founder Srinivas Netrakanti. Constraints and rules for scheduling in the auto industry, for example, typically number in the hundreds. Optessa, Netrakanti says, "gives a stable, long-term schedule" and tries to "satisfy every rule and constraint."
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