SMB: Forecasting with batch size 1

The name SMB stands for special plant engineering with a system and the company lives up to this name, not least with its new modular system. SMB’s business is material handling and covers everything from highly complex automatic storage, palletizing and conveying systems to filling systems. SMB impressively demonstrates how also as a medium-sized special plant manufacturer, modular thinking can be implemented in development and thus significantly increase the use of common parts and reduce construction times. The modeling and visual processing of the variance in Cquenz is particularly important for the team at SMB. This not only creates the basis for communicating and discussing the structure and variance throughout the company, but also makes optimization potential visible. Thanks to Cquenz’s innovative probabilistic simulation process, even companies with small batch sizes can achieve meaningful forecasts of quantities. First orders in the new system prove them right: the plants are a full success!