Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) represents a huge step in the quest to link product design with production electronically, in order to improve information quality and reduce time-to-market. Major strides have been made in recent years with the deployment of commercial applications capable of integrating the complicated and configurable BOM (Bill of Material) with that of … Continued

Clearly, the greatest benefit from MPM can be seen in improved production efficiencies, derived from more tightly designed and managed production systems. It is not uncommon to see assembly line efficiencies increase by 10% (in mixed model environments). In addition, new, or modified, product launch times have been reduced by 25 to 50% primarily because … Continued