Formaster has been producing water handling products and devices for over 30 years. They started with water heaters and now their main products are water filters, jugs, and filtering bottles.

Challenges
• Previously, they did not have an integrated scheduling system that covered all production processes. Therefore, each department scheduled production individually—usually manually with Excel.
• They couldn’t determine orders’ status
• They were lacking coordination resulting in material shortages

Achievements with Asprova APS software
• End-to-end scheduling
• Improved scheduling process
• Asprova supports order analysis and focuses on problem elimination
• Production efficiency +15%
• Improved OEE
• Cut inventory by 30%
• Reduced production lead times
• Immediate visibility of order status
• Doubled our product range
• Confidence in annual production increases

Asprova is the leading APS software relied upon by the world’s top lean manufacturers across diverse industrial sectors, including automotive, electronics, food and beverage, and more. With Asprova’s production scheduling software, you can achieve the shortest possible lead time, a high level of on-time delivery, increased resource productivity, and optimal inventory management. The fully automatic APS software schedules the entire value chain, handling short-term scheduling (2-8 weeks) and long-term production scheduling (from 2 months to several years). This results in a drastic reduction in scheduling workload.