Proplanner: Internet & Intranet Based Process Engineering

Friday, July 04, 2008

Assembly Planner

formerly the Process Engineering Suite

Proplanner’s Assembly Planner allows users to define and manage how products are manufactured. The suite incorporates process sequence, time and resource requirement information into one easy to manage mBOM.

Armed with this data, process engineers can accurately determine the specific resource and time commitments, and costs, associated with every product model and option. The Process Engineering Suite provides this information instantly and at a very high level of detail.

Select this link for a 10 minute video presentation on the Suite

Select this link for a Work Instructions Integration Overview PDF document

Select this link for a Case Study Tutorial PDF document

Select this link for a 10 minute video presentation on Workflow and ERP integration

Line Balancing	Workflow & ERP
Time Estimation	Work Instructions
D/P-FMEA	Visualization
Resource Mgmt	Ergonomics
Process Validation	Charting

Features

Maintain a searchable library of operations and activities for reuse, driving consistency in process definitions.
Drag and drop predefined operations, activities and elements from a user-defined library to construct the process plan.

Define manufacturing operations and activities, then map them to their respective components and assemblies.
Generate process plans based on process mapping and product structure. Develop process graphs and Gantt charts.
Assign activities and resources for each operation. Assign alternative process plans for the same component or assembly. Assign resources, activity locations, chemicals used, parts consumed and assemblies at each location.
Track process changes by date, person or data.
Assign effectivity dates to operations and components.

Develop process graphs and Gantt charts.

Benefits

Save time developing a process plan by quickly dropping and dragging pre-defined process elements from the database library.
Eliminate wasted effort by reusing existing process definitions. All process definitions and times are maintained in the searchable library.
Improve communication with informative diagrams of the manufacturing process.

Assign effectivity dates to operations and components.

Improve quality and consistency of process documentation. Pre-engineered forms and templates make it easy to define and maintain a library of process documentation. This is a tremendous benefit when compared with the traditional file-cabinet approach of hand-written forms that can be difficult to locate, read and keep up-to-date.