Aurora-Complex Manufacturing
Aurora-Complex Manufacturing is a powerful scheduling tool optimized for large-scale assembly manufacturing. This involves large numbers of jobs and operations, where each job may require labor, work space, equipment, etc. It is characterized by a high degree of resource contention, complex dependency networks, and a variety of domain-specific parameters that dictate how a job can be performed.
It is common for the assembly/build definitions to have a significant degree of customization from one build to the next. This may be customer options that are toggled on and off, or it may be truly custom work that is defined on a build-by-build basis.
Aurora can be applied to projects encompassing thousands of heavily constrained tasks and requiring hundreds of different kinds of resources. It can handle project execution, keeping track of work progress and projecting the remaining work for an accurate and workable execution schedule.
Benefits and Features
By augmenting Aurora’s powerful and sophisticated scheduling technology with complex manufacturing domain knowledge, Aurora provides many benefits:
Critical Chain provides superior
on-time performance. Aurora’s intelligent scheduling provides the shortest Critical Chain Result: faster throughput.
Aurora provides improved throughput and superior on-time performance by supporting accurate modeling and high-efficiency scheduling.
Fast scheduling: Aurora creates efficient schedules quickly. This permits many what-if scenarios to be performed rapidly.
Interfaces with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Siemens TeamCenter, Artemis, PSS, Open Plan, PS8, Oracle and other enterprise applications; to import, analyze, and export schedules.
Provides intelligent conflict resolution. Can automatically resolve standard conflicts or provide recommended solutions.
Provides enterprise solutions allowing the accurate modeling of large work statements in single project or multi-project mode. No fixed limit on number of projects.
More flexibility and an improved ability to accommodate change during execution.
One global priority system: everyone understands what is most important to the organization.
Provides explanations on why each task scheduled as it did, improving transparency and providing insight into how the schedule could be improved.
Aurora Capabilities
Aurora provides a comprehensive platform for planning, scheduling, executing, and optimizing projects across single-project, multi-project, and portfolio environments. From planning and projections to realistic execution, Aurora provides superior support for accurate modeling and analysis. Aurora provides tools for resource management, capacity optimization, risk analysis, and advanced reporting to improve flow, increase throughput, and deliver projects more predictably.
Project Planning & Scheduling
Build, validate, and optimize complex project schedules with Aurora’s advanced planning and scheduling engine.
- Create project plans and activity networks
- Generate projects from reusable templates
- Flexible scheduling behavior (Just-in-Time, ASAP, and mixed-mode scheduling)
- Multi-level and tiered planning structures
- Plan quality validation and auditing
- Scenario analysis, optimization, and what-if planning
Pipeline, Capacity & Project Release Management
Optimize portfolio throughput and mitigate risk by controlling project intake, resource utilization, and work-in-progress.
- What-if / Scenario planning and scheduling
- Adjust priorities to control target scheduling criteria
- Schedule in single or multi-project mode
- Intelligent scheduling for throughput and workload optimization
- Long-term capacity planning
- Risk analysis and mitigation
Resource Management
Manage resources, skills, and teams across complex project portfolios.
- ISA-95 compliant resource modeling
- Configuration of skills, profiles, resources, and teams
- Allocation and aggregation by skill or team
- Decision support for resource managers
- Multi-skill and cross-skill resource management
- Multi-project resource load monitoring
- Resource load balancing and optimization
Multi-Project Execution Management
Execute projects with real-time visibility, dynamic prioritization, and proactive exception management.
- Resource load monitoring across projects
- Dynamic and responsive schedules
- Integrated sub-task and issue management
- Portfolio-level project prioritization
- Time and progress reporting
- Full-kit readiness checklists and conditions
- Early warning indicators and trend analysis
- Delay impacts and causal chain analysis
- What-if analysis, projections, and recovery management
Reporting
Transform project and portfolio data into actionable insights with flexible reporting and automated communication tools. Aurora helps teams monitor performance, identify risks, and keep stakeholders informed with real-time visibility into project execution.
- Powerful out-of-the-box reports
- Customizable reports capability
- Various options for report distribution
- Different users can have their versions of reports
- Save reports in various formats
Integration
Aurora integrates with leading project management platforms and supports custom integrations to ensure information flows seamlessly across your organization. Connect existing tools, synchronize project data, and extend functionality through flexible integration options.
- Stottler Henke has implemented hundreds of integrations, and can implement input, output, or merge integrations with your existing systems.
- Aurora’s API allows your IT department to add or maintain integrations if an in-house solution is preferred.
- Aurora supports configurable import/export with MS SQL Server and Oracle databases.
- Existing import/export logic is supported with Microsoft Project and Primavera.
- Plot printing and image export permit easy sharing of the graphical schedule.
- Ad hoc and bespoke reports allow robust information sharing.
Implementation & Support
Accelerate adoption and maximize value with comprehensive support resources, training, and implementation services. Aurora provides the tools and guidance organizations need to successfully deploy, configure, and scale their project management processes.
- Online Knowledge Base
- Extensive Manuals and online help
- Pre-defined Sandboxes
- Training and Consulting Services
- Flexible Feature Configuration
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