Factory layout, line design & optimization for industrial machinery

As global economies continue to reinforce their emphasis on manufacturing, manufacturing planning has become the strategic process which can deliver a competitive advantage for those manufacturers that embrace it fully. Our Factory Layout, Line Design and Optimization solution for the Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Industry allows you to design, layout, and configure your factory environment, as well as optimize factory operations using digital 3D factory models and advanced software tools.

As global economies continue to reinforce their emphasis on manufacturing, manufacturing planning has become the strategic process which can deliver a competitive advantage for those manufacturers that embrace it fully. Our Factory Layout, Line Design and Optimization solution for the Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Industry allows you to design, layout, and configure your factory environment, as well as optimize factory operations using digital 3D factory models and advanced software tools.

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Machinery customers demand more complex and customized product configurations to suit their industry requirements amid global competition, driving increased production rates and compressed machine delivery times. To be successful, machine builders must be able to plan and design plants to maximize the efficiency of material movement and support lean initiatives for inventory location and management for their customers on both a global and local level as per their customer's requirements for individual manufacturing environments.

These factors create a complex, dynamic set of plant environments requiring coordinated, highly visual, and integrated tools that combine plant layouts, process flow optimization, and configuration-driven material management.

Our factory layout, line design and optimization solution for industrial machinery allows you to design, layout, and configure factory environments and optimize factory operations using digital 3D factory models and advanced software tools. By creating an integrated factory line design solution built on a manufacturing data management backbone, you can develop 3D virtual models of production systems, optimize factory layouts and ensure that clearance, energy, noise, and safety are considered before starting production. You can also evaluate the impact of equipment placement and access.

Solution capabilities

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Bill of materials management

Transform your manufacturing operations by re-combining the engineering bill of material, grouping operations and manufacturing sequences, while maintaining records of the process and still respecting the original bill of material.

Factory & line design data & process management

Collaborate with trades and machinery suppliers to establish and maintain plant context, providing an environment where everyone works in their own system while keeping the entire plant data synchronized.

Improve material flow for efficient factory layouts

Optimize factory layouts for material flow distances, frequency and cost by evaluating part routing information, material storage needs, material handling equipment specification and part packaging information against product cost targets.

Manage manufacturing data & process knowledge

Provide global visibility to all product data, down to the component level, for your heavy equipment machinery, including materials reporting and supply chain management and global manufacturing alignment.

Navigate, access & visualize manufacturing information

Visually display manufacturing site assets and locations and conduct assembly/fabrications material flow analyses to achieve lean capabilities with a cloud-based 3D representation providing clean visuals for all employees.

Optimize factory & line design

Rapidly build, visualize and optimize production line layouts in high detail to provide a simulation of operations and report machine operation status for daily operational reporting.

Optimize throughput for improved system performance

Model, simulate and optimize operations for material flow, resource utilization and logistics for global production facilities or specific process lines, to improve existing manufacturing while planning new production.

Streamline planning of high-volume production machining

Simplify and accelerate the design and optimization of machining lines cost-effective production of complicated parts by integrating advanced planning and CAM to distribute, balance, program and simulate operations.