A collaborative solution for planning manufacturing assembly processes
The need to get more products to market faster has driven manufacturers to distribute production over many, often geographically remote, plants and contract manufacturers.The strategy to “plan anywhere, build anywhere” requires technologies and methodologies that allow manufacturers to efficiently author, simulate and manage manufacturing information throughout their organization and with each other. UGS PLM Solutions and Tecnomatix Technologies have developed the Assembly Process Planner. This innovative solution addresses “how” a product has to be manufactured and provides the link between product design systems that address “what” has to be manufactured and shop-floor execution systems that address “when” and “where”.
E-factory is a flexible manufacturing engineering management solution that dramatically increases your company's profitability by improving the way your products are built. Developed specifically for companies with complex manufacturing processes whose success depends on bringing more products to market faster and for less cost, E-factory:
The business value of AssemblyProcess Planner
Competitive pressures have significantly shortened production cycles. Timeto- market and time-to-volume have become much more critical success factors in today's environment. Software solutions that allow manufacturers to leverage and optimize existing resources and to better integrate the manufacturing process from beginning to end can not only help manufacturers create products faster, but they can also begin production earlier in the overall cycle – or even start later, in order to accommodate unanticipated changes.
Assembly Process Planner supports the manufacturing process life-cycle from process planning and detailed engineering to full production. Connecting all members of the manufacturing chain – from OEM designers, engineering and manufacturing, to plants and suppliers – into one virtual enterprise, Assembly Process Planner helps manufacturers build the best production strategies to support their business strategy. It allows manufacturers to evaluate alternatives, coordinate resources, optimize throughput, plan for multiple variants, implement changes and estimate costs and cycle times – from the very early stages of concept planning through production.
Features
- Product data managment (PDM) level management of manufacturing data, enabling users to track the entire lifecycle of manufacturing information like product data
- Common product and manufacturing (process, resource, plant) data management system
- Modeling of manufacturing processes and lines using a complete set of interoperable tools
- Analysis and management of operations, resources, variants and changes
- Automatic internet-based reporting and visualization of manufacturing information
- Integration with engineering applications and IT systems
- Open application programming interface (API) for user-development of planning and engineering applications
Benefits
- Accelerate new product introductions
- Shorten time-to-production
- Optimize production execution
- Decrease operating costs
- Ensure overall product and process quality
- Allow engineers, designers and shopfloor personnel to collaborate interactively
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