Resource Management
Product Overview
Managing resource data - information on such assets as machine tools, fixtures, robots, welding guns and process templates - is a difficult challenge. Too often this information is fragmented across multiple locations and can't be accessed by the applications that must use it. Manufacturing engineers often have no recourse but to develop new resource plans because they simply can't find the data they need to build on proven processes. In these cases, time is wasted and inventory stock levels needlessly balloon.
Resource Management provides an open, common, graphical repository for all information related to an organization's production resources. The solution helps you define a comprehensive structure that classifies data and furnishes tools for you to conduct parametric search queries to retrieve data within seconds. A 3D graphics viewer verifies that the right resources are retrieved, which is much easier than combing through text records.
Tightly integrated within the Tecnomatix digital manufacturing environment, Resource Management makes data available to improve part manufacturing, tooling design, process planning, machine programming, shop floor communication and other production activities. Moreover, Tecnomatix now offers a manufacturing tooling resource library of over 30,000 tools catalogued and available at your fingertips.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Capabilities
- Provides a common, shared repository for resource data
- Manages bill of materials, process and layout templates
- Comprehensive classification structures
- Management of resource assemblies and relationships
- 30,000 tools available in the tooling library
- Parametric search engine
- Integrated 2D and 3D viewer
- XML import/export
Benefits
- Fast, automated access to resource libraries
- Streamlines technical publications
- Reduces inventory costs by providing access to standard resources
- Avoids duplication of resource data
- Visual identification improves utilization of manufacturing assets
