Schneider Electric APS Tank Management System for wineries

Schneider Electric’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) Tank Management System enables users to visualise and optimise winery operations. The system helps users to manage scheduling activities in a unified environment and provides the opportunity to optimise daily operations at medium- to large-scale winery tank farms.

The system provides the ability to optimise production according to strategic business objectives and constraints, such as minimising the transfer distance of wine; reducing ullage; availability of vital resources such as workers and equipment; optimal tank selection according to required attributes; and maintaining sufficient free operating space.

The system models the winery tank form so that users can create, evaluate and optimise strategic scenarios on demand. The model includes: physical infrastructure (tanks and attributes — locations, sizes, etc, tank areas or groupings, fixed and mobile equipment — filters, centrifuges, floatators, etc); employees and shifts; current tank inventory; operations — in situ and transfers; mixing rules; intake yields; bottling requests; exports; and purchase orders.

The system has a simple and straightforward plain text integration with any winery ERP or information system. It provides users with a quick dashboard visualisation of current and future tank farm status.