Transform Your Shop Floor: Unlock the Power of Purpose-Built Manufacturing Solutions

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Modern discrete manufacturers face mounting complexity—multi-level BOMs, constant engineering changes, compliance demands, and real-time quality assurance. Yet too often, teams rely on disconnected ERP systems, spreadsheets, or manual workarounds that slow progress, create errors, and drive up costs. This whitepaper explores: Why generic ERP customization fails—leading to ballooning costs, delays, and even project collapse. The … Continued

Get More Out of Your PLM

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Manufacturers managing complex product lifecycles—especially in discrete, assembly-focused environments—face a constant balancing act. From multi-level BOMs and frequent engineering change orders to ensuring accurate, up-to-date work instructions on the shop floor, success hinges on seamless coordination across teams and systems. Yet too often, these operations are hindered by disconnected tools, siloed data, and heavily customized … Continued

Digital-T Software Solution

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Proplanner’s Role in Defining the Digital Twin within the Digital Thread Concepts labeled as the Digital Twin or the Digital Thread are becoming very popular recently. It would appear that every software company in the PLM/CAD/ERP/MES industry has directed marketing efforts at these concepts. Coupled with the related concepts of ‘Industry 4.0’ and ‘IIoT’, major initiatives are … Continued

Quick, Secure and Accurate MES/IIOT Architecture Explained

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Proplanner’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Architecture is designed around a strong Bill Of Process (BOP) authored in the Assembly Planner Database from detailed Activities and their child Worksteps which link mBOM part consumption, and shop floor tooling requirements with variant Model and Option configuration rules. This BOP is published to our Shop Floor MES database … Continued

Why Proplanner MES

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While many great MES systems are available, few are tailored specifically to the task of vehicle assembly.  Fundamentally, the assembly line is a series of highly variable, worker-dependent operations as opposed to the more consistent, repetitive, machine-dependent operations often addressed by traditional MES applications. Proplanner’s assembly oriented MES (Shop Floor Viewer MES) and Andon (Factboard) systems make … Continued

Job Cover Matrix Feature Enhances Worker-to-Station Assignment

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It is no secret that labor shortages create frequent worker scheduling and assignment for today’s assembly plants.  Incorrectly assigned workers reduce throughput and create costly quality and safety problems.  Proplanner’s new Job Cover Matrix solution is designed to leverage the worker historical sign-on data and the workstation qualification requirements to address this issue with minimal effort. Human … Continued

Proplanner Offers a Live & Video-Based Time Studies Module

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Proplanner supports live and video-based Observed time measurement as well as the largest selection of Predetermined time standards available in any commercially available application.  Additionally, Proplanner supports over five ergonomics assessment standards which also represents the broadest selection in the market.  More importantly, Proplanner also provides extensive integration between Time Study and Ergonomic elements in … Continued