Product Overview

In high-volume production settings that utilize machining lines, every second counts. As a result, it’s crucial for manufacturing planners who are responsible for machining line design and build to efficiently design new lines, optimize existing lines, reduce production ramp-up time, and even reduce equipment investment. To complicate matters further, machining lines must be flexible to accommodate an increasing number of product variants and fluctuating demand.

In order to maintain your competitive edge, machining line planners and builders must be able to reduce the overall cycle time of the line, minimize the overall number of necessary machines in a given line, and maximize tool life. This level of planning requires a high degree of precision and sophistication that includes the ability to perform exact machining operation time calculations coupled with optimized assignment of machining operations to stations.

Whether you’re proposing, building new, or optimizing an existing machining line, the Tecnomatix Machining Line Planner application can help. Machining Line Planner delivers the complete process-based solution to design, program, simulate, optimize, and document your new or existing machining lines.

“Tecnomatix helps us visualize the way in which the machines operate, so we can see where other arrangements might be possible. We can now make better use of our manufacturing equipment and reduce machine processing and idle times, thereby reducing our manufacturing costs.”
- GETRAG FORD Transmissions, Cologne Germany

The Machining Line Planner has helped customers improve time-to-market by reducing planning time, minimizing change management time, cutting manufacturing costs, and slashing time-to-market.