With XPS Advanced Vessel Planning and Control, you can automatically generate stow plans for the entire ship or specific bay based on rules set by the ship planner and in compliance with the vessel planning stowage strategy.
Vessel plans are traditionally created manually and with varying levels of expertise. They are open to human error and planning inconsistencies. Information sources can be disparate with limited consideration of the operational environment and terminal constraints. These inefficiencies often result in extended planning times, unnecessary yard re-handles and crane delays, and an inability to adapt quickly to scheduling and berthing changes, in summary potentially leading to lower quayside productivity.
The Vessel AutoStow Option is an advanced application module that combines stowage factors, like port of discharge, length and weight, with yard constraints and operating parameters to select an appropriate container to load. Ships are swiftly planned container-by-container, based on their assigned strategy set and estimated move times determined by the order of work and associated crane rates. In addition, this option provides an AutoStow Wizard that guides you through the vessel stowage process.
Vessel AutoStow gives ports and terminals a competitive advantage over their neighbors with consistency and speed, saving significant time during critical operational periods and the planning phase.
With this option, you can:
Create as many strategies as needed to automate the creation of stow plans for an entire vessel, selected bays, or for a portion of a bay.
Create custom AutoStow strategies for specific vessel classes or operational goals and save them for backup purposes.
Apply an AutoStow strategy to a vessel and XPS automatically uses that strategy when the same vessel returns again.
Manually plan some containers to a bay and use AutoStow to automatically stow the remaining containers taking into consideration the manually planned containers.
Automate planning of 20' containers for twin-lift vessel load operations using parameters that account for the container's yard positions and vessel stowage considerations.
Restrict AutoStow by bay to use only containers from a selected group.
Automatically stow one bay at a time for a smaller and more manageable number of moves to plan and evaluate or the entire ship to consider the simultaneous work of other queues for better results.
Automatically create a rehandle work queue for a specific vessel visit.
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