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How intelligent automation provides a better overview, even with cross-location scheduling.
Siemens Energy - Manufacturing
AI-supported shift planning for higher employee satisfaction and more productivity
Situation & Challenges
No future with Excel - With a high demand for their product and a workforce of over 91,000 employees, Siemens Energy faced many challenges in staff scheduling:
- staff absences at short notice and order requests
- difficult continuous utilization of machines
- manual management of data
The solution
In October 2020, shyftplan went live at the Berlin location. The Nuremberg and Mülheim an der Ruhr locations followed shortly afterwards. Since then, we have been used to schedule employees in the required shifts and to handle important parts of employee communication. For the planners, administrative efforts and structural hurdles were solved by the programming interface (API) of shyftplan, which linked to the existing systems of Siemens Energy and thus prevented data breaks. After a very short period of time, the personnel planners and the staff experienced many changes, which gradually brought them closer to the specified goals.
“Instead of planning rigid 2- or 3-shift models, we can now give employees the opportunity to apply for their desired shifts independently. The tool automatically checks whether the general conditions are met.”— Jan Tornow I Siemens Energy, Berlin
Result
Thanks to shyftplan, Siemens Energy now coordinates personnel seamlessly and without paper, taking into account machine capacities and order situations. Even if Siemens Energy plans up to 4 months in advance, they can react quickly to changes at short notice. The daily personnel planning effort is reduced by 3 hours and machine utilization has increased by up to 50%.
“The agile project introduction was a perfect fit for shyftplan and for us as a service location. The complete introduction within four months, in all workshops, is proof that shyftplan and the introduction concept worked”— Oliver Hinz | Siemens Energy, Berlin
