Getting started with administering Manufacturing Process Planning ─ Deployment and Administration

Manufacturing Process Planner allows you to design a plan that details how to manufacture a product. The manufacturing process plan includes a top-level structure of the process needed to manufacture the product, as well as a detailed design of the individual processes and activities to be included in the plan.

As you build the process structure, you can assign resources to the various processes, operations, and activities. You can also identify the specific locations within the plant where each operation and activity will be performed.

You typically use Manufacturing Process Planner to design and manage the manufacturing processes for large assemblies. Common tasks are:

• Assigning an engineering bill of materials (BOM) to a manufacturing BOM.

• Using enterprise bills of process (BOPs) to capture standards and best practices across the business as generic processes and operations.

• Consuming 4GD design data into manufacturing process structures.

• Performing line balancing and time way planning.

• Creating work instructions for process data.

• Comparing structures to find missing parts in source or targets or differences in properties of the two structures.

For many of these tasks, you must configure aspects of your installation, including setting various preferences. For example:

• Configuring the enterprise BOP

• Setting up the accountability check

• Standard text overview

Additionally, you can customize Manufacturing Process Planner features to suit your business needs. For example:

• Add or remove accountability check report stylesheets

• Customizing a line balancing report

Manufacturing Process Planning ─ Usage