Fastener Planning

Fastener Planning provides tools for authoring manufacturing systems, managing system structures, assigning manufactured items to systems, managing fasteners, balancing manufactured items between systems, and balancing operations between systems.

Fastener Planning includes the following capabilities:

  • Author system structures and create product flows in the System Editor
  • Manage system structures and operations
  • Drag and drop of manufactured items, parts, and operations between systems
  • Edit properties of system and operation references/instances
  • Manage System-Item scope
  • Assign manufactured items to systems
  • Generate system structure from manufacturing assembly structure
  • Authoring operations and add constraints between operations using the Process Gantt chart
  • Assign parts to systems using the System Assignment Assistant
  • Simulate systems
  • Balance workloads and lines
  • Make resource-operation assignments
  • Manage configurations and changes
  • Manage fasteners using the System Assignment Assistant:
    • Find links between products and fasteners for joining products, joining fasteners, linking fasteners, getting fastener assignment status
    • Filter to show only assignable fasteners
    • Filter fasteners by diameter, type, and depth
    • Re-assign fasteners from the current manufactured item to an upper manufactured item, or from a lower manufactured item to the current manufactured item
    • Check the validity of the assigned fasteners