MARS*Planning

MARS*Planning helps you to improve the transparency of order processing and to act and decide on the basis of up-to-date plans. All involved parties can act on the basis of the actual situation of all projects because MARS*Planning closes the loop between planning, control and feedback. Furthermore it supports to maintain feasibility of plans by providing integrated resource management considering a multi project situation. Graphic interactive planning supports planning from the rough planning level to operation and control in a seamless integrated top-down approach. At the onset of planning, the information pertaining to a project is not always complete. As the project progresses and as information becomes available, single processes are described in more detail with the help of secondary processes, but do not replace them. These “partial nets” can be handled independently but are always part of the overall plan.

Hence the responsibility for phases, activities and work packages within the project can be distributed without losing focus on the overall objective. Planning on the rough level requires the definition of resource loads for activities that sometimes last for weeks. To plan resources accordingly, the distribution of loads over the duration of the process becomes decisively important. MARS*Planning takes this into account and helps you with product and resource specific stress-curves.

Complex projects are characterised by a high number of activities and logical links. To maintain an overview, a convenient tool for visualisation is required and MARS*Planning provides this, including features for the graphic interactive definition of activities and their links. MARS*Planning supports the assignment of resource requirement, costs, checkpoints, material, product structure, long lead items, floor space required, documents, drawings and instructions.

The integrated detailed planning provided by MARS*Planning helps increase flexibility and planning reliability by the interactive assignment of tasks and manpower on shop floor level. The application of detailed planning requires just a few steps in order to turn some initial data into a comprehensive plan. The necessity of taking engineering tasks into consideration during planning and control of “One-of-a-Kind” production is an essential requirement. Planning of engineering is to be seen as detailed planning of design and work preparation.