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What is discreet event simulation and state its advantages and disadvantages?

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Preactor can be utilized in a wide range of industries and businesses, including:

• Automotive and Aerospace
• Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
• Electrical Equipment and Machinery
• Food, Beverages, and Tobacco
• Glass and Ceramics
• Machinery and Equipment
• Metals and Metal Fabrication
• Paper, Publishing, and Printing
• Precision Engineers
• Rubber, Plastics, and Leather Products
• Textiles and Textile Products
• Transport, Logistics, and Services
• Wood and Furniture Products
An overview of Preactor Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software


Advanced planning and scheduling software ensures better On-Time, In-Full (OTIF), delivery performance by quickly and dynamically scheduling and re-scheduling production orders to take into account not only real-world capacity limits, but unexpected events that occur.

Preactor Features:

• Finite/Infinite resources, calendar states, efficiencies, and templates
• Forward, backward, and bi-directional sequencing by order-attribute
• Graphical and textual reports
• Sequences for manual and interactive breakdowns, and planned maintenance
• Parallel operations in process route
• Schedule Comparison Tables
• Unlimited Data for number of operations, resources, and products
• And much more!

What's new in Preactor

A key element of Preactor is that solutions can be installed straight out of the box but can also be customized and configured where necessary and without disturbing the core Preactor code, an important issue when it comes to future releases and technical support.

Preactor is also designed for integration with other software such as:

• ERP
• MES
• Data Collection

• Forecasting
• Demand Planning
• OEE Applications


Production scheduling aims to maximize the efficiency of the operation and reduce costs.


Preactor is the hottest technology available for generating optimized schedules. In-memory data ensures that multiple schedules can be generated in very short time frames to provide the planner with the information required to make the right decisions in a fluid production environment.
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