Process Planning

Process Planning provides tools for authoring manufacturing systems and managing system structures, as well as balancing items between systems and balancing operations between systems.

Process Planning Includes the following capabilities:

  • Author system structures and create product flows in the System Editor.
  • Manage system structures and operations.
  • Movement of items, parts, and operations between systems
  • Edit properties of system and operation references/instances.
  • Manage System-Item scope.
  • Assign 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.