Design anywhere, manufacture anywhere: Ensure a seamless flow of information between engineering and manufacturing
Exponential growth in customer-driven product configurations requires manufacturers to find more flexible ways of production. Combine that with supply chain interruptions, evolving safety regulations, and time to market pressures and the challenges can be daunting.
Manufacturing process management (MPM) provides the tools and methodologies for today’s dynamic plant-specific manufacturing environments, all coordinated through PLM. MPM brings together the shop floor with engineering, suppliers, logistics, and quality for a more connected and agile enterprise.
Leverage and integrate digital product design information into manufacturing process management.
Bi-directional associative EBOM to MBOM: Leverage 3D data and structured meta-data for BOM transformation with systematic traceability (equivalent links) and reconciliation between related BOMs
Plant master data management: Create plant specific MBOM structures including different views, part numbers, branches, and plant specific information
Validation: Validate the time, cost and feasibility of defined processes prior to sharing with the shop floor
Integrated change management: Streamlined reconciliation of product design changes into process planning
Process plans and resource management: Define plant-specific process plans with multiple sequences of operations and resource libraries (i.e. plants, work centers, tooling, skills, process materials)
Visual work instructions: Dynamically generate work instructions with in-context visuals (documents, digital, and AR)
Exchange with other systems: Integrate manufacturing processes and deliverables to downstream ERP/MRP teams.
Digital quality: Define and allocate 3D control characteristics to process plan operations; define non-geometrical control characteristics and libraries of standard control characteristics; integrate quality processes (i.e. PFMEA)
Factory digital twin: Represent smart factory as an input to defining your process plan
3D visualization: Creo View for manufacturing process management can read information from manufacturing product structure
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Extend the power of change and configuration management to manufacturing engineering and implement holistic process planning with Windchill’s MPM Framework.