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Figure 6. The assignment list with the time needed for the orders to be done

Either the engineer or the manufacturer, using Asprova, is able to monitor

Figure 4. Order table

the status, of every order, at any given time. Using the generated Gantt

After all the needed data is entered the finale result can be displayed in

chart (fig.5), production managers receive visualized manufacturing model.

different Gantt charts. On ‘fig.5’ is presented the ‘Resource Gantt Chart’

That way, the final results are easily understood. The final result for selling

showing all the needed information about the flow of loads and which

the items of ‘AX’ series is shown in ‘fig.7’. As shown on the figure the

load is not going to be done on time.

orders that are not going to be done on the time are shown with color

red. In this case the selling of items ‘AX100’ and ‘AX200’ is going to be

delayed. The result does not satisfy the demand.

Figure 5. ‘Resource Gantt Chart’ of the production mode

The software product Asprova also provides other features, like generating

Figure 7. Gantt chart for selling the constructions with Shaft-A

inventory chart that can help with the maintaining the items in inventories.

Asprova is a powerful product, which helps to control the processes in

The final result for selling the items of ‘CX’ series is shown in ‘fig.8’. In

factories or companies.

this case the orders are going to be done on time. The result shows that

the production schedule satisfies the demand.

3. ANALYZING OUTPUTS FROM THE ASPROVA

SIMULATION MODEL OF PRODUCTION SYSTEM

After setting which of the items is going to be for sale, in the ‘Order

table’ of the program, Asprova automatically generates manufacturing

and purchasing orders. Asprova assigns end times for the manufacturing

orders also. The program generates an assignment list for the orders. On

‘fig.6’ is shown the full list of the orders of the simulation model. In such

way the manufacturer can check the starting time and the finishing time for

every order. On the assignment list is also shown the time needed, with

these manufacturing settings, for every order to be done. As shown on the

figure, the longest job is for manufacturing ‘Shaft-B’ and it requires 6 days

22 hours and 20 minutes. The last order, that is going to be executed,

is for the order „Sale BX1“ and it is going to be done on 2016/06/22

at 15:05:00 o’clock.

Figure 8. Gantt chart for selling the constructions with Shaft-C

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