Re-plan with the whole plant in view.
Plans break in almost every shift, because a die change ran long, a furnace tripped or material arrived late. Stamped proposes the re-plan that works best for the whole plant, keeps machine utilisation up and idle time down, and shows what each option does to output, energy and delivery.
What the people who own the problem receive
- For the planner
Press 3 will be down for about [N] hours. Confirm the proposed re-plan before the shift change and today's dispatches stay on time.
- For the heat-treatment lead
Run these four lots back to back by temperature this shift, so the furnace does not heat up and cool down between them.
- Loading, for the heat-treatment lead
Hold the next basket on Furnace 2 for a short while: it is well below a normal load, and a lot on the same recipe can join it without mixing grades.
- Handoff, for the production lead
Forged parts waited about [N] minutes for the furnace on most days last week, so a furnace start matched to the forge schedule is ready for your review.
Numbers in [brackets] are placeholders. Your pilot writes these from your own plant data.
How Stamped re-plans
Stamped keeps a live picture of the plant: which machines are running, down or waiting, what each furnace is holding, what material is on hand, which dispatches are due and when maintenance is booked. When something changes, it finds the bottleneck that limits throughput, compares possible sequences against those constraints and ranks them. Stamped recommends and your team decides.
- 01
Track
The live state of machines, furnaces, material and dispatch.
- 02
Compare
Possible sequences are scored for output, energy and delivery.
- 03
Choose
The planner picks, with the trade-offs of each option in front of them.
Energy follows every operating decision.
A reheat or an hour of a furnace sitting hot and empty uses energy that never ends up in a good part. Because most of the saving comes from running the plant better, Stamped counts energy inside every action described above and measures it against your own baseline, with tariff windows and demand peaks treated as one input among many. On the utilities side it looks at compressors, air, steam and cooling, and moves load away from demand peaks where the plan allows. Less energy in every good part is also the most practical step toward decarbonisation, and for plants electrifying process heat, Stamped counts electricity per good part the same way.
In planning and scheduling: Grouping lots by temperature, filling furnace loads and timing heat-up to the moment the next charge is ready keep furnaces from sitting hot and empty, and tariff windows are weighed as one input to the plan.
What planning and scheduling looks at in each industry
Also across the plant
Questions about planning and scheduling
What does Stamped do when the production plan breaks?
When something changes, such as a die change running long, a furnace tripping or material arriving late, Stamped proposes the sequence that works best for the plant as a whole and shows what each option would do to output, energy and delivery.
What does Stamped keep track of to re-plan?
Which machines are running, down or waiting, what each furnace is holding, what material is on hand, which dispatches are due and when maintenance is booked.
Who makes the final scheduling decision?
The planner. Stamped recommends and your team decides, so the planner chooses with the trade-offs of each option in front of them.
How does planning affect energy use?
Grouping lots by temperature, filling furnace loads and timing heat-up to the moment the next charge is ready keep furnaces from sitting hot and empty, and tariff windows are weighed as one input to the plan.
What owners usually ask us first.
- What does it cost?
- Only the pilot price is agreed at the survey. The pilot is paid and priced on its own, and the annual price comes after, based on the pilot's results.
- What do we need to install?
- Nothing new to start. Stamped connects to the machines, meters, ERP and registers you already have, and the survey tells you plainly if that is enough.
- How much of my team's time?
- Some hours with your plant head and your quality and maintenance leads during the survey, planned around production. In the pilot, actions reach the people who already own that work.
- Is our data safe?
- We sign an NDA before the survey. Stamped runs on a zero-trust architecture with encryption, your data is stored on cloud servers in India, and we work only with the data your team agrees to share.