To reduce the amount of space needed at the operator station, these workstations have flat-panel monitors. Teaching employees to use J-PLAN was simple. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office are familiar technologies at Honeywell Space Systems. Because J-PLAN uses a browser to display work instructions and Microsoft Word to create documents, minimal training of the product support engineers and assembly personnel was needed. The Results Thanks to J-PLAN and the BackOffice family technologies it runs under, Honeywell Space Systems has significantly increased the efficiency of its operators and manufacturing engineers by dramatically decreasing the time they spend searching for paper documents.
Employees are understandably appreciative.
More concretely, J-PLAN has enabled Honeywell to slash the cycle time for changing documents by an average of 50 percent. Reduced product cycle times and improved documentation accuracy have resulted from the J-PLAN implementation. Dawn Morelli, a product support engineering supervisor, points to an additional advantage provided by the Windows NT-based Microneering solution. Overall, the J-PLAN solution met all of Honeywell's requirements and has raised the bar for future documentation process improvements. Outside the 50 United States and Canada, please contact your local Microsoft office.