Aurora-ProPlan -

Pharmaceutical Production and Project Management with Intelligent Scheduling

Aurora-ProPlan is a customization of Aurora™, Stottler Henke’s intelligent planning and scheduling system, that adds capabilities necessary to perform Pharmaceutical production and project management optimally. Pfizer uses Aurora-ProPlan to create optimal schedules for pharmaceutical production. Aurora-ProPlan also is part of the Intellicentic consortium led by Pfizer to promote leading proven solutions that optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing. By using sophisticated scheduling software as the underpinnings for Aurora-ProPlan, it can be applied to and optimize the production of pharmaceutical products, by taking into consideration the unique challenges found in pharmaceutical production. Aurora-ProPlan’s solid scheduling basis also allows it to more easily handle complex situations such as new tasks being inserted during the actual production execution, as well as other radical changes to the situation.

Features and Benefits

By adding Pharmaceutical specific capabilities to an already powerful and sophisticated scheduling software, Aurora-ProPlan provides many important benefits:

Minimizes changeover time and inventory
Optimizes production taking in consideration changeover times, carrying costs, etc.
Maximize overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
More flexibility and an improved ability to accommodate change

Enterprise Solutions

Aurora-ProPlan provides enterprise solutions not otherwise available:

Aurora-ProPlan is designed to interface with other enterprise applications
Supports demand changes and inventory carrying cost
Supports equipment downtime (planned and unplanned), line allocation and cost
Large multi-project environments can be modeled

Graphical Presentation

Graphical output shows line usage broken down by production time, and setup times, with options to show different products and different types of changeovers depicted differently.