Paperless Manufacturing Solution

 Solution Applications

• Component manufacturing
• Assembly and test
• Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)
• Quality control
• Asset management and inventory
• Tooling crib management and calibration tracking
• Equipment maintenance

Operations, support and enhancements

• Dedicated support professionals who know your plant and processes
• Quick response - guaranteed
• Easy upgrades without programming changes or on-site assistance needed
• Easy enhancement additions without downtime or programming changes
• Easy to use Customization Architecture
• Completely Web-enabled for ease of installation, upgrade and enhancement
• On-line help screens

High level Shop Floor Features

• Web-enabled deployment to save cost and provide secure wide-area access
• Electronic display of all documents needed at a work station
• 2D and 3D display of simulations with animation
• Direct video training of shop floor people
• Work Instructions linked to tooling, materials and processes
• Buy offs and work validation
• Data collection through barcode or manual operation
• Capture of labor data for IE analysis
• Work order management with sequencing and holds
• Procedural enforcement to eliminate errors
• Capture and management of non-conformances
• Work flow management
• Simple to use shop floor interface
• User capability to initiate special processes on demand or on trigger event
• Simple user configuration options to choose local look and feel
• Simple options to configure screen content
• Full Microsoft Office processing capability
• Mass update capability to simplify change management
• Generative Logic engine to automate routine tasks

Intra-system Interfaces and Integration

• Built-in PDM interface
• Built-in MRP and ERP interfaces
• User friendly Integration Engine to provide rapid integration using XML and Internet technology
• PDM 3D model access and use in planning
• System-to-system transaction monitoring
• System-to-system transaction management

Process Planning and Engineering

Work Instructions and Work Flow

• Work flow navigator with hierarchical process map
• Simple screen configurability to show text, graphics, video and 3D animations
• Ability to add data fields for analysis
• Ability to create multiple standard text operations per department or machine
• Ability to clone process plans
• Spell check with customizable acronym dictionary
• Easy pick and choose from the BOM to create planning

Interactive Work Instruction Creation

• Integrated tooling information in the plan
• Integrated quality control plans in the plan
• Integrated Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) information in the plan
• Integrated BOM information in the plan
• Ability to create data fields for analysis
• Configurable multi-level approval process
• Validation tables with drop down boxes
• Ability to create checks to verify accuracy of data
• Multi-language work instruction capability
• Tool management integrated with planning
• Environmental Health and Safety (OSHA, EPA) integrated with planning
• Ability to specify Industrial Engineering time standards on all work
• Provide multiple security/access levels

Standard Planning

• Simple reusable process information to copy into planning
• Standard text can be copied or pasted into planning
• Complete standard plans can be edited and reused to save time

Smart Multi-media Screens

• Author can create an integrated "picture" of the work to be done
• Integration of text, PowerPoint, drawings, graphics, 2D/3D animations, videos
• Author can reference or copy PDM documents and visual information
• Author can integrate quality control plans
• Author can integrate ERP BOM information

Approval of Planning

• Multiple levels of pre-defined approvals for fast action
• Automatic email notifications to all approvers
• All approvals and changes are captured in the as-built record

Workflow

• Work sequencing can be strictly enforced
• Alternate sequencing can be used
• Sequence overrides with appropriate access protection
• Navigation tool to plan and visualize work flow
• All work flow decisions and changes are captured in the as-built record

Planning Effectivity

• Effectivity based on dates, lots, serial numbers or unit numbers can be assigned

Reporting

• Standard and custom reporting capability
• Automatic change notification

Execution Capability

Work Order Management

• Work Order Status dashboard for snapshots of the shop floor on demand
• Multi-media work instructions linking everything needed to do the job
• Continuous real time tracking of each work order's progress and quality acceptance

Document Control

• Ability to manage document revisions with error-free accuracy
• Ability to electronically deliver original work instructions and supporting reference data to the shop floor (immediate display of updated planning)
• Ability to incorporate AD Hoc Ops for a single or predefined quantity of traveler
• Complete electronic as-built records

Data Collection

• Ability to record information requested per work instructions such as buy offs, non-conformances, tolerances, tool calibration and any user defined data element
• Ability to record inspection findings with absolute compliance
• Ability to retrieve MRB dispositions
• Ability to collect data on repair/rework instructions dynamically generated

Labor Management

• Ability to collect operations start and end time
• Ability to properly assign rework/repair labor
• Ability to verify work against Industrial Engineering time standards
• Ability to report on WIP status

Quality Management

• Quality Control Plans integrated with work instructions
• Ability to collect Quality buy-offs
• Ability to collect Operator buy-offs
• Ability to disposition operations as rework or scrap
• Ability to manage non-conformances
• Ability to notify operator of potential quality issues (change acknowledgement capability)
• Ability to delegate inspection authority
• Ability to record dual inspection
• Ability to validate work against Quality Control Plans
• Ability to prevent inadvertent traveler closure
• Allow electronic call boards
• Integration with full feature quality management system (TIP/QA)

Process Management

• Ability to limit the progression of traveler activity (compliance enforcement)
• Ability to provide out-of-sequence work travelers at the predecessor and successor level
• Ability to provide real time messages between operators, inspectors & planners
• Ability to track and manage all shop floor holds
• Ability to off-load some operations to other distant shops or outside vendors

Product Geneology

• Ability to provide tooling inventory management
• Ability to display/access BOM data
• Production order receipt / reversal
• Ability to manage the BOM
• Ability to create as-built record

Business Analytics

• Ability to analyze past performance issues
• Ability to isolate and identify process problems
• Ability to identify machine maintenance problems
• Ability to identify personnel problems

As-designed, As-built, As-maintained Records

• Automatic capture of all activities on any work order
• Easy access to the accurate as-designed, as-built, as-maintained record
• Full audit trail - history and signatures

Operational Attributes

• Perform maintenance without taking system offline
• Easy to use, intuitive to the operator
• Multiple user capability at a single workstation without logging on and off
• Visual alerts to problems to avoid lost text messages
• Hyperlink capability to use Internet technology aids
• Easy reporting both paper & electronic
• Capability to void documents and inputs
• Multiple daily back ups, without downtime
• Multiple programs and configurations in use at once
• Multiple access levels enabled at all times
• Data availability for reporting purposes: resource utilization, product unit cycle time, conformance, performance to standard
• Ability to provide shift-to-shift communication - operators' ad-hoc notes
• Multi-lingual capability
• Multiple concurrent users