Case Study: Toshiba boosts planning accuracy and manufacturing efficiency with Adexa eGPS

Defining the Precise Digital Twin of a Fabrication Line Requires Very Advanced Technology

Iwate Toshiba, a semiconductor fabricator in northern Japan, needed a better way to manage highly complex production across millions of components, volatile demand, and long planning cycles. Its manual planning process could not keep up with rising order complexity or daily scheduling needs, and production delays were hurting customer deliveries. Adexa provided its eGPS supply chain planning suite to address these challenges.

With Adexa’s eGPS, Iwate Toshiba improved finite-capacity planning, production scheduling, and factory-level accuracy by feeding real equipment data into the master model and dynamically sequencing jobs across plant resources. Adexa helped cut production planning time in half, from eight hours to four, enabled twice-daily planning runs, increased planning accuracy by 30%, reduced inventory by 30%, and improved production throughput and efficiency by 30%.

Toshiba

Tsuyoshi Sugimoto

General Manager of Information Systems