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 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

eKitting Generate pick lists and track and manage kit carts and sequenced items for specific units and batches on the line.  Why is Proplanner’s eKitting solution more effective than ERP’s kitting tools? Why not continue using Excel to plan for and manage kit deliveries? Manual planning by one user at a time of all kitted parts and … Continued

Proplanner’s Assembly PLM solution is the only Assembly-Focused PLM system available in the market today.  Overview While generic PLM systems can provide toolkits for companies to develop an Assembly PLM environment, this effort takes a great deal of time, money, and rare talent which companies should be spending on their own product development efforts (i.e. … Continued

Engineering Change Notifications or (ECN)s are changes made to the product structure as an improvement or to introduce a new product. Along with ECNs, a change may arrive through Deviations or Deviation From Spec (DFS) which typically originate from the shop floor. The intention of the deviation is to handle unplanned part or process issues. … Continued