Planning manufacturing for reuse with the enterprise BOP

The enterprise bill of process (EBOP) capability allows you to capture standards and best practices across the business as generic processes and operations. You can reuse these generic definitions multiple times when planning the manufacture of any product or specific models at different manufacturing facilities.

When you implement EBOP, you work with the following data:

• A generic BOP or process plan that represents the processes for building a single generic product for a product family at all sites. For example, you can define a generic process plan for building any model of pickup truck. You build this process plan from standard tools, processes, and operations, excluding elements that are unique to a particular model.

• One or more product BOPs. This process plan represents the common processes for building a particular model at any site. It is derived from the generic BOP for the corresponding type of product, allowing for commonality and reuse between different products of the same type.

• One or more plant BOPs. This process plan represents all processes or operations that are performed at a specific plant or work station. Processes and operations are allocated from a product BOP to a plant BOP, which is then used for analysis and validation of the process plan. This can include consideration of nonvalue-added operations that are required in the specific plant, time analysis, line balancing of a given product mix, simulation, and derivation of precise requirements for tools and worker skills.

• Partitions to organize groups of processes within the generic BOP and product BOP into a hierarchical structure, for example, a partition may contain seat system processes or chassis processes.

• Logical designators to allow the same partition, process or operation to be mapped to different generic or product BOPs.