Case Study: Mitsui Engineering & Ship Building achieves integrated short-, medium-, and long-term production planning with Asprova

Mitsui Engineering & Ship Building Co Ltd builds 2-year production plans in 5 minutes with Asprova

Mitsui Engineering & Ship Building Co Ltd, a major Japanese industrial company, faced a challenge in its wind turbine production line. The company relied on manual scheduling that was only effective for one to two months, making it difficult to guarantee delivery dates for orders further out and risking costly stoppages to its large-scale equipment. To systemize its planning and integrate short, medium, and long-term schedules, Mitsui decided to implement the Asprova production scheduling software.

The solution implemented by Asprova allowed Mitsui to create a single, integrated production plan covering a two-year horizon. The software automated scheduling for up to 30,000 operations, eliminating human error and process omissions while providing warnings for potential time constraint breaches. This provided a highly accurate and dependable schedule, which was then fine-tuned with manual adjustments. As a result, Mitsui achieved visualization of its entire production workflow, enabling better delivery date adjustments and overall optimization. The implementation was completed quickly, and the company anticipates future improvements in efficiency and lead times.