Preactor International, specialist solutions for planning & scheduling announced today that it had provided AIR LIQUID MEDICAL SYSTEMS with solutions to improve planning & scheduling of its factory at Antony, France.

The group AIR LIQUID MEDICAL SYSTEMS, formed from the recent merger of the companies TAEMA (France), ELECTROCARE (India) and MARKOS MEFAR (Italy), is specialized in comprehensive medical gas systems tailored to meet the demand of the hospital industry. Medical gases must be delivered in a clean, safe and reliable manner at every point in the hospital where they are needed. AIR LIQUID MEDICAL SYSTEMS is a subsidiary of the Healthcare division of the AIR LIQUID group.

To meet important growth targets the group has been equipped with a solution for planning and scheduling that enables them to significantly improve the visibility for the factory’s supply chain as it deals with both long term planning as well as short term scheduling of work orders, and will enable significant improvements in efficiency and productivity.

Mr DOMANICO is Supply Chain Manager. “We set up solutions GMPS (planning based on average and long term demand) and APS 400 (detailed Scheduling) of PREACTOR which allows us to rapidly generate the work orders, synchronise procurement plans with production, replace our existing planning system, make reliable and accurate schedules taking into account all resources and constraints of the manufacturing process, better manage manpower and their competences, anticipate the availability of components, and to be able to simulate and compare various scheduling scenarios before commitment. PREACTOR has a strong expertise and experience in the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors with many references, which confirmed our choice. On the technical level, we were impressed by the solutions both from a functional and ergonomic point of view”.