Intelligent Card Leveling Developed by Lean Thought Leaders and Datacraft Solutions
Released on: July 28, 2008, 7:20 am
Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler
Industry: Software
Press Release Summary: Intelligent Card Leveling Developed by Lean Thought Leaders and Datacraft Solutions
Press Release Body: Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) delivers a revolutionary digital kanban process of automation solutions to lean manufacturers through a secure Internet gateway, eliminating the need to install and maintain a complex IT infrastructure. The company has experienced significant growth in the past two years by eliminating complicated, expensive, time-intensive software implementations as well as extensive training regimens and the need for internal support. Datacraft Solutions\' replenishment supply chain digital kanban system (Signum) allows customers to access and utilize powerful lean benefits immediately for a low, predictable monthly fee. Services are scalable so manufacturers can design an appropriate digital kanban solution.
According to Stephen Parker, CEO of Datacraft Solutions, \"Working with Lean Thought Leaders and after five years of advanced research and development, we have created the industry\'s first card releveling tool: Intelligent Card Leveling (ICL).\"
ICL is a web-based supplemental capability to provide heuristic and production scheduling capabilities for the Signum product. ICL will allow users to upload their production schedule for each card set, as well as predict the card level with Datacraft Solutions\' Simple Moving Average (SMA) algorithm. In subsequent releases, new algorithms based upon the most advanced scientific forecasting technology will be delivered to provide the best-of-breed predictions for Signum customer sites.
After the upload of production schedule data points (which is not required) and using historical consumption for all heuristics, the user will be allowed to select which method of card set leveling should be selected. The user will also be allowed to override the card set levels for any card set. Once the user has verified the process, a single submission will pass all the information to Signum for a mass card update. Users will be prompted to print additional cards for increasing card levels.
Intelligent Card Leveling (ICL) will be deployed this year in the third quarter.
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