Swapnil Thakre
Swapnil Thakre is a seasoned manufacturing leader with 15+ years of experience in Industrial Engineering, Production Planning, and multi-plant operations. He has led large-scale efficiency programs across diverse manufacturing environments, streamlining complex processes and driving measurable improvements in throughput, quality, and cost. With deep expertise in PPS, capacity planning, and execution governance, Swapnil brings a practitioner’s perspective to modern factory challenges—grounded in real shop-floor experience rather than theory.
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Production Planning and Scheduling in Plastic Pipe & Fitting Manufacturing
Production planning in a plastic pipe and fittings plant spans continuous extrusion (for pipes) and batch-based injection molding (for fittings), but the real complexity lies beyond simply sequencing machines. Extrusion lines run continuously and must account for socketing operations, cooling cycles, and downstream dispatch readiness, while injection presses juggle mold changes, regrind usage rules, and order coupling requirements to ensure pipes and fittings stay aligned for assembly and shipment. Because tooling, semi-finished buffers, rework loops, and customer-specific dispatch constraints are deeply interlinked, schedulers must plan machines, tooling, material flow, and governance rules as one unified system. These overlapping constraints make PPS in pipes and fittings far more challenging than standard discrete manufacturing—and extremely sensitive to how well the planning system models real shop-floor logic.
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