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Notion	Explanation
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)	APS systems plan and schedule the production process in one go, based on existing materials, manpower and capacity. During the production process, Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is responsible in particular for sequence planning and capacity planning. Usually, APS systems take over the production orders generated by the ERP system and plan and optimize the sequence in which they are to be processed. The production orders are assigned to the existing workstations via the APS software, taking into account the existing resources and production capacities. FEKOR can be used as APS System with or without ERP.
Application program/Application software	An application software is a program that provides a solution for the user through certain functionalities. With the software FEKOR, FLS offers a solution that allows the planner to plan and optimize the production process at any time.
Article	An article is equivalent to a product. In production planning, the article refers to a bill of material.
Article class	see characteristic
Article classification	Article classification makes it possible to calculate setup times in advance without having to set up and maintain large setup time matrices.
Article group management	Article group management has the objective of viewing and managing articles grouped in the group together during replenishment. This is to ensure that the articles concerned are produced together as a group once.
Backward scheduling	From a predetermined delivery date and taking into account the production time of an order, it is calculated when production must start at the latest so that this delivery date can be met. There are differences between scheduling backwards with unlimited capacity and scheduling backwards with limited capacity.
Characteristic	Characteristic can be used to describe the properties of articles, such as color, diameter, and so on. Characteristics and article classes are used for detailed setup time calculations.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)	Computer Integrated Manufacturing refers to the activities in a company that are supported by the computer. This also includes production planning and control (PPS) and production data acquisition (PDA).
Consequence calculation	The consequence calculation is one of the most important FEKOR functions: each change is calculated in its effects on the existing plan. In addition to date shifts, all availabilities for work center, personnel, production resources/tools and material are checked. Dependencies between orders are taken into account. The effects of a change are usually not limited to one work center, but extend to almost all work centers. The FEKOR-Leitstand carries out this calculation immediately when rescheduling orders, for example, and displays the result in the form of the changed plan.
Consumption control	Consumption control is applied when the demand for the future is not known with sufficient accuracy. The replenishment process is then triggered according to the order limit procedure, for example.
Control station	see production control station
Delivery period	The delivery time is the time between the order placed by the purchasing department and the delivery of the goods by the supplier. It is identical to the replenishment lead time.
Demand control	Requirements control is a management type in Materials Management. If the requirements are known, it can be determined when the stock will fall below the safety stock and when the stock must be replenished accordingly.
Detailed planning	Many companies still differentiate between rough and detailed planning. Rough-cut planning shows the period for which orders already exist. Detailed planning determines the sequence of the orders and their assignment to the work centers. With FEKOR, the separation into rough and detailed planning is no longer necessary. Impending bottlenecks are recognized early and eliminated by additional working times or suitable alternatives.
Discrete manufacturing	In discrete manufacturing, individual, countable products are manufactured. In contrast to this is process manufacturing.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)	Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) supports the capture, planning and control of resources in the enterprise. ERP systems are modular software applications and are connected to other systems via interfaces. When used with an ERP system, FEKOR generates the production orders and transfers the data back to the ERP system.
Extended workbench	The term “extended workbench” refers to the outsourcing of production orders to subcontractors. As a rule, this involves the provision of the necessary components and materials
External production	In contrast to in-house production, in external production the production of an article or component is outsourced to an external company. Under certain circumstances, this can be cheaper or help out in bottleneck situations. In FEKOR, the external production can be carried out – also taking into account the corresponding Transport times – map. This means that the consequences in the event of disruptions along the entire supply chain, i.e. also in external production, remain transparent at all times until the goods are delivered.
FEKOR	FEKOR is the name of the planning system of FLS FertigungsLeitSysteme GmbH & Co. KG. FEKOR is the abbreviation for production coordination.
Graphic control station	see production control station
In-house production part	In-house produced parts are articles which are manufactured in our own production. (also called in-house production article)
Interfaces	Interfaces serve to connect the production planning system to the backflushing system. Confirmation can consist of two components, on the one hand the entry of the goods flows and the resulting stocks with the help of a warehouse management system (WMS) and on the other hand the entry of the order progress for production orders by a plant data collection system (PDC). FEKOR provides standard interfaces for these two confirmation systems. Series production
Inventory management	As part of inventory management, the stock for each individual item in this warehouse is usually maintained in a warehouse management system.
Laytimes	Lying time is the time in the production where a product is not processed. This can be part of the process or due to a malfunction.
Leadtime	The lead time in production is the time required from the start of processing to the completion of a product. Some planning systems use the lead time reduction as a target, but this can lead to a deterioration in the company result. An example here is the reduction of lead time through additional shifts. If the costs for this are not taken into account and included in the cost estimate, the profit can be adversely affected. The goal of the planning should be the minimization of the total costs of the enterprise.
Lot	A lot specifies a production quantity to be produced in connection with a production lot.
Lot size	Lot size refers to the quantity of a product type that is produced as a lot without interruption or change.
Machine cost rate	The machine cost rate is calculated from the sum of the costs for imputed depreciation, imputed depreciation and imputed depreciation. Interest, space, energy, and maintenance that are calculated in one hour.
Management	This is the process of determining by means of a replenishment analysis when an article stock is expected to fall below the safety stock level, triggering a replenishment process, and reserving or allocating the replenishment quantity to the requirements.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)	A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a system for the efficient control of production, usually in the form of an EDP system. It contributes to a company’s improved competitiveness by optimizing order processing and manufacturing processes. (also called: Manufacturing Execution System (MES), MES System, MES System)
Manufacturing type	Manufacturing type describes which process is used in production for manufacturing. A distinction is made between the quantity of similar products to be manufactured: Make-to-order production, multiple production, repetitive manufacturing, make-to-order production, mass production, and batch production.
Materials management	The task of Materials Management is to ensure that the material is available in the required quantity on the required date. No requirement may remain unfulfilled.
Multi-stage production	In contrast to single-stage production, the manufacturing process here takes place in several processing stages.
Order limit	In the case of consumption-based management, an average requirement is calculated in the absence of known requirements. Taking the replenishment lead time into account, you can calculate a calculated warehouse stock that must be replenished at the latest if the warehouse stock is not to fall below the safety stock level. This warehouse stock is known as the order limit or reorder point.
Order sequence	The goal of production planning is to avoid cost-intensive setup, waiting, and wait times through meaningful sequence planning. FEKOR helps to arrange the sequence in production in such a way that orders are fulfilled more economically.
Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE)	Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a metric used to control and monitor the performance of a plant, individually tailored to each company. FEKOR automatically calculates the optimal production sequence, including costs and deadlines.
Part list	The Part list of an article contains all the components or assemblies that make up the article.
Personnel planning	The aim of personnel planning in production is to ensure that employees are at the right place at the right time with the right qualifications. In FEKOR, the qualifications of the personnel are stored in such a way that FEKOR knows which employee can be deployed at which workplace. If an employee can operate several machines at the same time, the PPS uses this information in planning. It is taken into account which workstations can be operated at the same time.
Personnel requirement planning	Personnel requirements planning determines the personnel requirements at a particular point in time. FEKOR optimizes personnel planning both according to availability and demand. Both methods aim at achieving your defined production targets with as few personnel as possible.
Planning board	see production control station
Prefabricated elements	Finished parts are the end products of the manufacturing process from our own production. .
Primary requirements	The independent requirement is the original requirement, the requirement for finished products, which is usually triggered by sales orders.
Production control	In production control, the planned production orders are released, controlled and monitored.
Production control station	The production control center provides control over production and scheduling. The planning board visualizes production processes and their interdependencies. The FEKOR control station enables new orders to be planned in an optimized way and to see the immediate consequences of changes.
Production control system	A production control system (FLS) is planning software for controlling production (see also Production Planning, Production Planning and Control).
Production optimization	In production optimization, comparative calculations are made in the system that take into account the costs for work centers, materials, personnel, and production resources/tools, the additional costs of the poorer alternative, setup costs, as well as warehousing and capital commitment costs, in addition to the deadlines. FEKOR generates the best plan from all these parameters.
Production order	The production order describes with quantity and date that an article is to be replenished by own production in the warehouse.
Production planning	In production planning, the production processes are planned in the medium to short term.
Production planning and control (PPS)	Production planning and control deals with the planning, control and monitoring of production. It generally consists of two parts: Production planning and production control.
Production resources and tools	Production resources/tools are the aids and devices required in production.
Production scheduling	The task of production planning is to schedule the pending production orders taking into account the availability of all necessary resources and the general conditions.
Purchase order	A purchase order is a request from Materials Management to Purchasing to replenish the warehouse stock of a purchasing part.
Purchase requisition	see purchase order
Ready-made	see prefabricated parts
Reduction of set-up costs	see Setup Time Optimization
Refilling process	This is a process that ensures that the item is replenished at the warehouse. This can be done either via a production order, a transfer order, or a purchase order.
Replenishment order	see warehouse order
Replenishment time	In the case of purchased parts, this refers to the time between the purchase order and the delivery of the goods by the vendor. In the case of in-house production parts, this is the time between the triggering of the order and its completion.
Rough planning	see Detailed Planning
Safety stock	The safety stock represents the reserve to be still available in case of emergency during the new production of the article.
Series production	A type of production in which similar products are manufactured in sequence in a limited number.
Setting-up	Setting up is the preparation of a workstation for production.
Setup	In FEKOR, the term setup is used synonymously with setup. This refers to the conversion of production from one article to the following article at a work center.
Setup sequence	see Setup Time Optimization
Set-up process	see Setup
Setup time optimization (setup optimization)	FLS uses the article classification by article characteristics for the setup time optimization in the production planning system FEKOR. The dependencies of processes are taken into account and the set-up times are recorded as characteristics (material, colour, shape, changeover times, temperature profile, etc.). An automatic calculation of the optimal production process takes place, taking into account all costs and deadlines.
Setup time reduction (setup time reduction)	see Setup Time Optimization
Simulation	Simulation in connection with production planning is an experimental problem solution in the planning system. In FEKOR a copy of the operational database is used to make decisions or changes and to have them checked by the system. The consequences of the intended measures are shown and thus serve as decision support for short- and long-term projects.
Single-stage production	In one-step production, there is only one operation for the production of a product. In single-step processing, the production process can be defined in a single operation.
Stock order	This is an order that is issued to replenish a stock item.
Supply-Chain-Management (SCM)	Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the planning, control and monitoring of the value chain and includes all company activities for the procurement, manufacture and delivery of products to the end customer, including the consideration of external companies. SCM aims to optimize the supply chain.
Warehouse management	Warehouse management includes the entry of warehouse movements, inventory management and storage location management.
Warehouse management system	It is usually an EDP-supported system for warehouse management.
Warehouse range	This is the period from a given date up to which the warehouse can meet demand, taking into account the stock and the quantities still to be received. The warehouse range of coverage answers the question of how long the requirement is covered.
Warehousing costs	Warehousing costs are all the costs incurred for the storage of items in the warehouse, e.g. room costs, the costs of transport systems, the personnel costs of warehouse personnel.
Work schedule	The work schedule specifies which operations are to be carried out, in which order and with which resources and aids. In one-step production, the routing contains only one operation. (Synonym: production plan or production plan)

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