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Some of the features of Epicycles which
make it Lean, Quiet and Seamless.
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- 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.
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Few Concepts
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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
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Process
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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)
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Histograms for Inventory
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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
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Histograms for Capacity
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Same functionality as Inventory
- Cumulative Unused Capacity
- Periodic (seconds to decades) Unused Capacity
- Available Capacity
- Available Capacity can be dependent on another
Resource
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Gantt For Sequence
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Sequence
- Split or Re-Allocate Resource
- Resource Level
- Show / Hide Float (Slack), Dependencies and
Bottlenecks
- Same scrolling, zooming scale as Histograms
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Standards
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One Click export to Microsoft© Excel
- Menus, Toolbars
- Drag & Drop
- Copy & Paste
- Sort, Filter
- Hierarchies are dimensions of
Pivot Tables
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Price Analysis
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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.
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Costs, Revenues and Profitability
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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.
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Rolling Horizon
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Different States in
Histograms, stacked or side by side.
- "Consumption of" or
"Comparison with" other "Plans and
Schedules".
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Just haven't got round to creating a screen shot to show it.
Development is the current bottleneck in our process, not
marketing (yet!).
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Features and
Scripting
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Watch this space.
- Some calculations (for example
throughput rates) are unique to your business. Scripting allows
use of Resource Features for those unique calculations.
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What it
Doesn't Do!
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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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