Perform trade studies of various manufacturing alternatives and trade-offs between product design and manufacturing design. Validate the variations required for manufacturing in multiple plants with different resources. From concept to production, training and maintenance, manufacturers can be confident in their ability to succeed in the face of ever-shorter product life cycles and shrinking margins.
Most companies already know the majority of the processes involved in building a new product.
Once defined, processes may be stored in file systems or in a PDM database. There is a simple, intuitive user interface for creating and modifying the process plan, and when possible, using predefined process templates from the libraries. Different process representations such as Sequential Charts, Gantt Charts or Hierarchical Charts are available. Resources themselves can be created and edited using catalogs such as Deneb Device libraries or accessed directly from legacy systems. All members of the enterprise share the Master Process Model.