Your schedule is stuck in Excel. The floor isn't.

For injection molding companies

One rush order or one mold that jams, and your Excel schedule no longer holds. Aionix gives injection molding companies a schedule that moves live with the machines, with changeover sequencing built in.

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Planning: injection moldingGenk site · Week 30LIVE

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Mold changes11

Changeover time13h 15m

Utilization81%

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IMM 250TEngel e-mac 250Running

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M02·White·30,000 pcs

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Black Clip 9#10437

M09·Black·24,000 pcs

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Red Cap S#10441

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Optimizations: last 30 days

Every optimization is stored. Pick a KPI and a configuration; the chart shows the past month, so you can see whether the planning is genuinely improving.

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Configuration

Changeover time · all configurations↓ 20% better

Delivery firstMax. efficiencyBalancedColor campaign

Click a dot in the chart to see the configuration and the result of that optimization.

Create a new configuration

Set the priorities with the sliders. Aionix recalculates live and shows the expected result. Save it as a reusable configuration, no need to set it up again next time.

Name of the configuration

Delivery reliability80%

Deadlines take priority

Machine utilization65%

Keep machines as full as possible

Fewer color changes45%

Run colors in groups

Fewer mold changes40%

Series on the same mold

Less changeover time55%

Lowest total changeover time

Expected result

Changeover time9h 15m

Utilization86%

Color changes11

Mold changes5

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Delivery firstMax. efficiencyBalancedColor campaign

The problem

Excel works. Until something changes.

In injection molding, scheduling is about changeovers. The order sequence determines how many mold changes, colour changes and material purges you get, and every unnecessary change is lost time on a machine too expensive to stand still.

The file is wrong the moment the floor moves

A rush order, a machine stop or a mold that jams: schedule and reality drift apart. What adds up on paper no longer adds up on the floor.

schedule ≠ reality

You optimise the changeover sequence by hand

An experienced planner gets it done, but again with every change. So in practice you run with too many changeovers, simply because recalculating costs too much time.

too many changeovers

Everything hangs on one person

The logic lives in one planner's head. If they drop out through illness, holiday or departure, the schedule drops out too. Nobody else can take it over.

all on one person

The solution

A schedule that moves with your machines.

Aionix is a working instrument, not an automaton. It captures the events that otherwise stay on a note or in someone's head, and makes a proposal based on them. The final call stays with the planner.

Orders straight from your ERP

Work orders arrive directly from Odoo, SAP or Dynamics. No retyping, no export file lagging behind. The schedule always starts with the right orders.

Machines and molds with changeover sequencing in the logic

Every order is linked to a machine and a mold. The sequencing of mold change, colour change and material purge sits in the calculation engine, not in someone's head.

Adjust during the shift

Rush order to fit in? Machine going down? The schedule proposes a new sequence straight away, with the number of changeovers it costs you. You decide whether to apply the proposal.

Knowledge out of heads, not on a note

Events you used to note down separately now come together on the platform. That makes the schedule visible to everyone who needs it, and no longer dependent on one person.

Modular

Start with today's pain. Grow at your own pace.

Start here

Planning

Out of Excel, straight away. A schedule that moves live with the machines and has changeover sequencing built in. This is where you take the first win.

Orders from your ERP, machines and molds linked

Changeover sequencing in the engine, adjust live

One truth for planner, floor and management

Next step

Maintenance

Once machine data comes in for the schedule, you use that same data for maintenance. A mold that goes down unplanned costs a fortune. Now you see it coming before the stop.

The same machine data, now for maintenance too

You see unplanned downtime coming

Nothing new to connect, it's already running

Who works with it

The same plan, four different questions.

Planner

Sees the clash in advance

An order that does not fit shows up before it reaches the floor. Not after the shift is standing in front of it.

Shift lead

Knows what today holds

The sequence sits on the screen at the line, with the changeovers already worked into it.

Production manager

Replans on what is actually done

The plan shifts on what the floor genuinely reported complete, not on what was on paper yesterday.

Managing director

Can promise a date

A delivery date that comes out of real capacity rather than out of an estimate.

What customers ask first

Four questions about production planning.

Does this replace the planning in our ERP?

No. Your ERP decides what has to be made and when it ships. We plan the execution: which order on which machine, in which sequence, with which changeover in between. The ERP stays in charge of the order, we of the day on the floor.

Our planning lives in Excel and it works well enough.

Until somebody is off sick or a machine fails. A spreadsheet does not know what is happening on the floor, so replanning means starting over. Here the plan moves with what is actually reported complete, and you see immediately which orders come under pressure because of it.

How does it account for changeovers?

Per product group you define what a switch costs. The planning board factors that in when sequencing, so orders that resemble each other end up next to each other. That saves more time than most companies expect.

What if the floor deviates from the plan?

It will, and that is fine as long as you can see it. An order that starts late or runs long shifts the rest of the day on the board. The question is not whether the plan is right, but whether you notice when it stops being right.

How it connects

What planning gains from the rest.

Planning is one module of the MOM platform. A plan is a prediction; the modules below tell you whether it held, and why it didn't.

Production monitoring

Without production data your plan stays an intention. Together you put planned next to actual and see where the week started slipping, while you can still move things.

Maintenance

A mould or machine that stops unplanned throws your whole sequence out. With maintenance on the same data, the service lands in a gap on the board instead of in a running batch.

Work orders

The plan reaches the floor as a work order and comes back closed. Digital means you replan on what is actually finished, not on what was on paper yesterday.

Planning has no case of its own yet. To see how a modular rollout runs step by step, read how Moerman NV did it. How to capture a process digitally first is covered in mapping a production process digitally.

For manufacturers in West Flanders

Put your entire shop floor on the same platform.

No 'big bang'. As a West Flanders-based team, we start at your SME with the first module on the first line, prove the value, and build out together to your full platform, at the pace and budget of an SME.

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