Frepple is an open source production planning toolkit for your day-to-day planning problems
Frepple aims at building a lightweight open source framework that easily and quickly delivers a solution for production planning problems.
The initial focus is on small to medium sized planning problems for the discrete manufacturing industry.
Production planning software traditionally has been an area with plenty of home-grown, extremely specialised and/or very primitive solutions.
Strangely enough, while creative and innovative open source solutions pop up in all computing areas, production planning software still tends to be a very closed world full of academic, proprietary and expensive solutions.
Till now... Frepple is an open source production planning toolkit for your day-to-day planning problems.
For the developer community, the project is also trying to establish a common ground framework for planning applications.
Rather than rebuilding the basic foundation from scratch over and over again, developers can now leverage a proven framework to extend with their own extension modules.
New workflows and functionality can now be built much quicker and easier.
Main features of frePPLe:Modeling and solving framework for discrete manufacturing environments.
Heuristic "MRP-like" solving algorithm respecting capacity, material and leadtime constraints.
XML-based data input and output.
Extensible and customizable architecture.
New modeling constructs and solving algorithms can be developed in C++ and loaded as a plugin module.
Frepple comes as a 'library' developed in C++.
It has no graphical user interface as such and requires to be deployed in a 'application'.
Different applications are envisioned:
Standalone application for use at the command line
Microsoft Excel frontend
Accessable from programming languages such as java, python, perl or visual basic
Can be linked into your own C or C++ application
A reference browser-based user interface and database schema are based on the powerful Django framework.
Both can very easily be extended and customized.
Embeds Python as scripting language.
Allows for flexible and easy integration and customization.
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