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.

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Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-07