Manufacturing Process Engineering & Management
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Proplanner Suite

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Proplanner’s Process Engineering Suite 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.

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Manuals and Support
System Requirements

 

Line Balancing
Line Balancing
Workflow & ERP
Workflow & ERP
Time Estimation
Time Estimation
Work Instructions
Work Instructions
DFMEA / Quality Management
D/P-FMEA
Plant Layout
Visualization
Resource Management
Resource Mgmt
Ergonomics Assessment
Ergonomics
Process Validation
Process Validation
Charting
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.

Process - mBOM Screenshot 1
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.

 

Process - mBOM Screenshot 2
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.