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JDA Hot Mill Scheduler

Because steelmaking is extremely asset-intensive, maximizing throughput and production efficiency are essential. JDA Hot Mill Scheduler is a constraint-based solution designed for the hot rolling stage of steel production. The production planning solution maximizes throughput by enabling shop-floor schedulers to create feasible execution schedules based on current orders, taking actual shop-floor conditions into account.

How does it solve your business challenges?

With a host of scheduling drivers to consider — including width pattern, gauge pattern, capacity and groove — hot rolling production managers face challenges that are not addressed by traditional scheduling tools. JDA Hot Mill Scheduler is designed to model these unique constraints so that your planners can test various schedules and preview their outcomes, resulting in an optimal schedule that can be executed on the shop floor.

What are the benefits?

  • Increased throughput and delivery compliance
  • Higher profitability via better asset utilization
  • Greater customer satisfaction
  • Elimination of over-scheduling and over-capacity situations due to realistic constraint representation

Why JDA?

JDA Hot Mill Scheduler is not a one-size-fits-all tool, but a specialized solution that features natural workflows and a configurable, customizable interface that creates additional views tailored to your schedulers’ needs, supporting both coil-level and order-level scheduling. Plus, JDA Hot Mill Scheduler features a genetic algorithm-based optimization engine that quickly builds production rounds and campaigns.