Are you facing challenges in synchronizing your team’s efforts and ensuring efficient product development in your manufacturing processes? Whether you’re dealing with small-scale manufacturing projects or complex, multi-departmental production, PLM software is the key to aligning and optimizing your assembly planning. Our PLM solutions offer predefined workflows designed to guarantee results, ensuring that every team member is on the same page, reducing the time-to-market, and enhancing the quality of your products.
Advantive’s PLM software streamlines assembly planning by seamlessly importing the eBOM from your PDM/PLM system, along with any pertinent Engineering Change Orders, to detail necessary modifications. It enables manufacturing engineers to align the eBOM with existing mBOMs, identifying required adjustments to processes, shop floor instructions, tooling, and logistics. Changes are coordinated through Manufacturing Change Orders, specifying the effective dates and applicable series or serial numbers. Once the mBOM and BOP are reconciled within Assembly Planner, the data is efficiently published to ERP, logistics, and shop floor MES/Andon systems, as illustrated in our integration diagram. Proplanner’s flexible, client-centric PLM solutions adapt to various workflows, ensuring optimal lean production practices for your manufacturing needs.
Tailor your workflow for efficient manufacturing change management:
Ensure Effective Planning for Released ECOs:
Efficiently Reconcile mBOM and eBOM for manufacturing requirements:
Efficiently Manage Consumption Changes Driven by mBOM Updates:
At the core of Advantive’s PLM software solutions lies the vital concept of models and options, essential components in the production of intricate assembly products. Models typically encompass broad product types or families, while options denote specific features applied to these models, enabling extensive variation and customization.
While resembling sales configuration frameworks that govern feasible model and option combinations from an order and sales perspective, the utilization of models and options in process configuration serves a distinct purpose.
Each product model and option necessitate unique assembly processes. Some tasks may be applicable across multiple models and/or options, while others are specific to select models and/or options.
In Assembly Planner, this translates to streamlined operations:
Proplanner has extensive standard and custom reporting options. While we offer services to provide client-specific reporting and data exports, many clients can implement their own reports using our standard API’s and recent integrations to applications such as Power BI and Tableau.
One of our key data models is available in the open-format XML-based Scenario files, which is used extensively by the Assembly Planner application to share and store Line Balancing alternatives. This export contains detailed information on tasks, stations, variants (Models/Options), tools, components (3PR = Products, Processes, Plants and Resources).
Advantive’s PDM/PLM and ERP integrations can be handled via our extensive SQL-View, XML, or Web Service APIs.
Proplanner data flows are shown between our PLM/MPM solution (Assembly Planner) and our MES solution (Shop Floor Viewer/MES) in coordination with a traditional ERP integration approach.