Polaris Designer

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Module of iFAKT Polaris that builds a product-process-resource (PPR) knowledge graph as the single source of truth for products, process steps and resources.

Description

Polaris Designer is the module of iFAKT Polaris that prepares the data for all further planning steps. It turns input data such as ERP data, manufacturing bills of materials (MBOMs), process times, resource structures and constraints into a Product-Process-Resource (PPR) knowledge graph.

This graph serves as a single digital source of truth for the production system. It is the foundation for simulation, optimization, automated planning and AI services in Polaris, and it reveals critical paths in the production process. The other modules build on it: the Simulator tests scenarios on the graph, and the Optimizer derives executable production plans from it. The result is a structured model of how products are made, in which process steps, required resources and their limits are linked to each other and can be inspected in one place. Since the graph is built from ERP data, it reflects the information a company already maintains.

Related topics in brief

• iFAKT GmbH · Developed by · Organization
  Stuttgart-based consulting company and software specialist for Industry 4.0, founded in 2001, that helps manufacturers plan and optimize production and logistics processes; developer of the Polaris software.
• iFAKT Polaris · Part of · Product
  Production software from iFAKT GmbH that combines ERP data with a digital twin of manufacturing and AI to optimize production schedules, reveal bottlenecks and improve on-time delivery.
• PPR knowledge graph · Related to · Concept
  A knowledge graph based on the product-process-resource (PPR) model that links ERP, MES, historian and maintenance records so people and AI can trace how a product, process and resource came together in production.
• Product, process, resource (PPR) · Related to · Concept
  A manufacturing modeling structure that links the product to be built, the process required to build it and the resources such as machines, tools and people that can perform the work.
• Single source of truth · Related to · Concept
  The principle that each piece of business information has one authoritative source; the episode frames it less as one storage location and more as one trusted decision reality that defines which source governs which decision.

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