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BA111. Dynamic Buffers and Backward Scheduling: How to Reconfigure the Factory Around Due Dates
This story depicts the process of resolving chronic chaos on the manufacturing floor through EXA's advanced Bayesian algorithm and production scheduling engine. Moving away from the indiscriminate push-style production methods of the past, it introduces data-driven simulation and backward scheduling to precisely control process bottlenecks. Through real-time data learning, the system sets dynamic buffers and reorders priorities toward optimizing schedules based on bottleneck process capability for due-date compliance rather than simple utilization. As a result, by suppressing unnecessary WIP and securing protective capacity, the factory undergoes an innovative transformation in which profitability and due-date hit rate rise even while physical machine operating time decreases. It shows the completed form of a demand-driven Pull production system realized by combining human intuition with cold data computation.