Assembly Planning

Leveraging its long-time expertise from working with the world's largest manufacturers, The Tecnomatix Assembly Planning solutions help organizations quickly define and evaluate manufacturing process scenarios to arrive at the best plan for building their products. Combining knowledge management with assembly process improvement applications on an open manufacturing backbone, Tecnomatix Assembly Planning ensures that manufacturers begin production earlier, ramp to full volume faster and respond better to product change.

The Tecnomatix Assembly Planning solution includes a broad range of applications to optimize assembly sequences; coordinate operation timing and kinematics; verify line performance, including throughput and resource utilization; perform line balancing and analyze production costs. The result is process plan containing a full description of how a product is assembled, manufactured, tested and packaged. This plan becomes the basis for collaboration among planning teams, plants, suppliers and contractors.

A Collaborative Solution

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. 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."

Tecnomatix is a flexible manufacturing engineering solution that dramatically increases your company's profitability by improving the way your products are built. Developed for companies with manufacturing processes whose success depends on bringing more products to market faster and for less cost regardless of manufacturing complexities.

The Business Value

Competitive pressures have significantly shortened production cycles. Time-to-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.

The Tecnomatix Assembly Planning solution 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, the Assembly Process Planning solution 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.

The Features

  • Manufacturing Process Management for enabling users to track the entire lifecycle of manufacturing information within a common product and manufacturing (process, resource, plant) data management system. (Teamcenter)
  • 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

The Benefits

  • Accelerate new product introductions
  • Shorten time-to-production and time-to-volume
  • Optimize production management
  • Decrease operating costs
  • Ensure overall product and process quality
  • Allow engineers, designers and shop floor personnel to collaborate interactively

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