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Product Description

Some of the features of Epicycles which make it Lean,  Quiet and Seamless.

Dockable Windows
  • Open many Windows
  • Change data in one Window and all related Windows change for all Planners.
  • Choose View,  Back, Forward
  • Many windows for same Resource
  • Auto Hide (Pin),
  • Floating or Docked Windows
  • Stack, Tile, Split, etc.
Few Concepts
  • Models 
  • Resources can be Materials,  Work Centres, Transport etc.
  • States can be Forecast, Plan Schedule, Actual etc. OEE States, etc.
  • Processes and Formulas include Bills Of Materials, Routings and Recipes
  • Hierarchies with Multiple Parents for Reports
Process
  • Graphical maintenance of Process 
  • Equivalent of Bills of Materials, Routings and Recipes
  • Formulas link Resources, Shapeless "BOMs"
  • Processes can be linked, even across servers
  • Planning direction can be different to material flows
  • Many Scheduling relationships between Resources
  • Cyclic Processes (eg recirculating materials, transport merry-go-rounds)
Histograms for Inventory
  • Inventory and Inventory Change
  • Rate based Demand / Supply records reduce system noise
  • Scroll and Zoom time periods (seconds to decades) with mouse
  • Mouse over for detail
  • Filter
Histograms for Capacity
  • Same functionality as Inventory
  • Cumulative Unused Capacity
  • Periodic (seconds to decades) Unused Capacity
  • Available Capacity
  • Available Capacity can be dependent on another Resource
Gantt For Sequence
  • Sequence
  • Split or Re-Allocate Resource
  • Resource Level
  • Show / Hide Float (Slack), Dependencies and Bottlenecks
  • Same scrolling, zooming scale as Histograms
Standards
  • One Click export to Microsoft© Excel
  • Menus, Toolbars
  • Drag & Drop
  • Copy & Paste
  • Sort, Filter
  • Hierarchies are dimensions of Pivot Tables
Price Analysis
  • Watch this space!
  • Resource prices ($/unit) in any currency.
  • Exchange rate conversion.
  • Any time period, time interval.
  • Complete component visibility.
  • Sensitivity of end products to input price changes.
Costs, Revenues and Profitability
  • Watch this space
  • My Mum told me Cost = Price x Quantity.
  • Complete profitability analysis, 
  • Margin per bottleneck unit of time (guess why we have volumes and prices!).
  • Product mix decision support.
Rolling Horizon
  • Different States in Histograms, stacked or side by side.
  • "Consumption of" or "Comparison with" other "Plans and Schedules". 
  • Just haven't got round to creating a screen shot to show it. Development is the current bottleneck in our process, not marketing (yet!).
Features and Scripting
  • Watch this space.
  • Some calculations (for example throughput rates) are unique to your business. Scripting allows use of Resource Features for those unique calculations.
What it Doesn't Do!
  • Alas, there are lots of functions which other systems provide which Epicycles currently has no reason to replicate. That currently includes all the order transactions such as Sales Order and Purchase Order.
  • We just need the quantity, date and price.
  • Interfaces readily available.
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