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

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

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

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