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This is used in Work Instructions. It is a collection of activity, resources and location.

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This is used in Work Instructions. It represents node properties stored in the application

A

Activity location

An activity Location is a geographic area in a plant. Activity locations are represented in an AutoCAD layout drawing by a block (of the name PPAPL) that prompts the user for its extents attributes (min x, y max x, y).

It has one of five internal types:

process

assembly

storage

dock

flow through

Additional external types can be user-defined

Activity locations are global to an account

Synonymous with “station” and “work-station”

Adding

Adds a new node and the new node becomes the last child node (tree order = maximum).

Alternative

End items, assemblies, features, and manufactured items; purchased items and raw materials can be mapped to multiple suppliers (alternatives) which have user-assigned ranks.

B

BOM

Bill of materials—a structured hierarchical list of product assemblies and parts. Proplanner distinguishes between two types of BOM:

eBOM

engineering BOM

components of a product as defined by the product designer

mBOM

manufacturing BOM

comprises a "recipe" used to make a product

all components in the eBOM, plus

· raw materials

· features (often referred to as stages of work in process or WIP)

· sub-components not broken out in the eBOM

· appearances of multiple-quantity items from the eBOM. For example, the eBOM may list pedal (2) which might appear in the mBOM as left pedal and right pedal

· operations, activities, and elements

components in the list may be of these types:

E – end item, the root of the product tree

A – assembly, a container for components

I – item, the lowest level of component identification in the eBOM, whose manufacture/purchase status has not been specified

M – manufactured component

P – purchased component

components in the list are one of the types defined for the eBOM or one of these additional types:

F – feature identifying a stage of work-in-process

R – raw material

C

Check-in

Save changes to an entity such as a document that has been checked out.

Check-out

Lock an entity such as a document indicating that the user intends to make changes to it.

Cloning

Produces an entity with exactly the same properties as the source entity.

Component

A product node in the eBOM or mBOM tree. Components are of the following types:

End Item

Assembly

Feature

Manufactured Item

Purchased Item

Raw Material

Item

Components are global to an account. (eBOM and mBOM tree structures of components are local to a project)

Configure

Referring to the eBOM and mBOM, a filtered display of tree items according to inclusion/exclusion rules based on selected options (the option mix)

Copy

Copies the entities (or a tree) to the clipboard without removing it from the existing location

CSV or .csv Files

A comma seperated value file or a CSV file is one where all the columns within the file are seperated by a comma. Microsoft Excel has the option of saving any file as a .csv file.

Custom fields

The Proplanner application allows the user to define custom fields. The user can then define a formula using these custom fields, i.e. these custom fields can be used as variables.

Cut

Copies the entities (or a tree) to the clipboard and removes it from the existing location

D

Delay

A time bucket that acts as a buffer

Delete

Removes the existence of the entity

Deep Cloning

Deep cloning is a concept that clones all levels of the selected entity, e.g. if the user were to select an operation and click deep clone, a clone of not only the operation but of all the activities under the operation is created.

E

Effectivity

A period between which the entity will be active

Element

Lowest level of process definition; breaks down activity into items such as walk, reach, grasp, rotate;

Used to estimate elemental time, which is rolled up into the parent activity

Export

Copying a document out of Proplanner application

F

FMEA

Failure Mode Effects Analysis

There are two types of FMEAs:

•	DFMEA analyzes design failure effects

•	PFMEA analyzes process failure effects

G

Global

Available and applicable to all instances of the entity.

H

History

A log of all the modifications to the entity

I

Import

Refers to the process of adding an external file into the Proplanner application

Inserting

Adds a new sibling node and the new node is placed just above the target node.

Instance

Only available and applicable to the current instance of the entity regardless of the parent.

Internal class(IC)

These classes are system defined classes that are used to classify resources

L

Load

Adding an existing entity into an area (folder or a tree area)

Local

Only available and applicable to the current instance of the entity (as long as it appears under the same parent).

Locking

Locking an entity ensures that no changes can be done to it.

M

Monumental Resources

These are resources that are fixed at a specific location on the plant, for e.g. a hoist or a fixture

O

Operation

Container for activities or other operations.

May produce (be mapped to) an end item.

Is not required to contain children. Operations without children appear in the process tree, but are analytically ignored.

Option Mix

A property of an end item used to specify included or excluded components and features. Option Mixes make it possible to define one BOM to represent multiple models.

P

Paste

Copies an entity (or a tree) that has been copied or cut to the clipboard

Plant

Plant data stored in the database consists of area boundaries, activity locations, and resources.

In a hierarchical tree structure, a plant is the root node and has child area boundaries. Boundaries are always parents of activity locations; activity locations are always parents of resources. Plant structures are global, but document assignments are local

Process flow diagram

A diagram showing material travel between activity locations

Initially generated from the process graph

Process graph

· Node graph showing operations flow

· Shows what components go into an operation and what components it produces

Process mapping

It is the mapping of an operation to a product node (end item, manufactured item, assembly, item, and feature)

Project

•	A set of eBOM and mBOM information and references to related files such as product, part, or equipment photographs, and work instructions, which can be linked to nodes of the eBOM and mBOM.

•	Projects are local within an account

•	Projects can be locked

R

RPN

Risk Priority Number, which is a product of severity, occurrence and detection values in FMEAs

Rank

A priority amongst multiple entities

Remove

Removes a node from the tree, but does not remove its existence

Resource

Operator, machine or tool that contains a fixed and variable cost, and is used to perform an activity

Resources are referenced by activities and assigned to locations

Can be specified by class (such as lathe or operator) or an instance of a class (such as lathe16 or operator12)

Users can define additional resource types as sub-types of these base types:

Machine

Material Handling Device

Operator

Tool

Consumable

Import

resource blocks found within a layout drawing that have not yet been defined in the project are collected under the node “Import”. In the plant view, a resource is always a child of activity locations; resources are global to an account.

Role

Proplanner supports two types of roles, Author and Viewer

Author: An author has read/write capabilities on the database. The user who is an author can edit data within Proplanner.

Viewer: A viewer has only the read capability on the database. The user who is a viewer can only view the data.

Roll up

Value of a parent entity based on the values of the children or descendants

Routing

The material flow/movement of the product and its components in the facility. Routings are characterized by move activities specified in the process flow diagram and define how materials move between activity locations.

S

Sibling

Two entities having the same parent

Station

See “activity location”

Supplier

Source for a purchased component or raw material

T

Template

A stencil for creating Work Instruction and Ergonomics sheets

U

Unloading

Removing an entity from an area

User class (UC)

It is a user defined class that is a child class under an Internal Class that are used to classify resources

V

Value addition

A percentage or a binary value that shows how much value that process adds

Version

Some Proplanner entities can have variants of itself, which are differentiated by assigning version numbers

W

Work-station

See “activity location”