Innovation and collaborative, synchronized program management for new programs
Factories are being architected and simulated virtually through digitalized processes to create the smart factory of the future. The virtual factory is created in 3D with layout and optimization tools, allowing us to design, layout, and configure the factory environment and optimize factory operations. By giving facility planning and line design teams the ability to see the outcome of plans virtually, you can avoid costly expenses and wasted resources that occur when problems are discovered in real facilities.
Factories are being architected and simulated virtually through digitalized processes to create the smart factory of the future. The virtual factory is created in 3D with layout and optimization tools, allowing us to design, layout, and configure the factory environment and optimize factory operations. By giving facility planning and line design teams the ability to see the outcome of plans virtually, you can avoid costly expenses and wasted resources that occur when problems are discovered in real facilities.
During factory line design and planning, the impact of equipment placement and access is difficult to realize using conventional factory layout tools. Understanding throughput of individual lines or the factory is critical for manufacturers, as is the understanding of how material moves throughout the facility. Inefficiency can ripple throughout the factory and its production systems without the ability to optimize the factory layout based upon the data obtained during the planning and analysis phases of production engineering.
Factory planning is not successful without proper communication among the diverse teams that are involved in the layout planning process, creating the need for a completely integrated factory line design solution built using manufacturing data in a connected digital thread. Our solutions digitalize the entire manufacturing process to create the smart factory of the future, so you can maximize productivity, increase profitability and know the best way to manufacture innovative products that are right the first time with high margin, quality and reliability, and shortened time-to-market.
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By providing a common source of BOM information across your organization that is flexible and scalable, you can meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.
Quickly design and visualize complete production layouts and easily associate them to manufacturing planning in a single system.
Bring your diverse facility planning and line design teams together through an integrated system for factory data and process management.
Navigate, access and visualize up-to-date production information using the digital twin of your manufacturing facilities wherever they are located.
Distribute, balance, program and simulate operations over multiple machines and simplify high-volume production of complicated parts with many features.
Connect people, systems and machines through manufacturing process planning using a digital thread to accumulate knowledge and continuously improve operations.
Make smarter decisions and create efficient factory layouts with reduced part travel distances, lot sizes, and inventory levels.
Use the power of discrete event simulation for production throughput analysis and optimization to improve your manufacturing system performance.