Saturday, April 28, 2012

Serkan Orhan, 030070165, 10th week part3


5)Manufacturing process management [Group: Management Method]


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Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) of Tecnomatix offers a business strategy for the collaborative development and optimisation of manufacturing processes across the extended enterprise. 
MPM allows multi-users at multi-sites to collaborate as one single enterprise throughout the entire development of a manufacturing process. MPM leverages specific technologies and methodologies to create a collaborative environment for authoring, simulating and managing manufacturing processes. MPM addresses the area of manufacturing that has historically been the most neglected area of the industrial process — the actual planning and crea-tion of the manufacturing process. While CAD and PDM address "what" products to manufacture, and MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) address "when" and "where", MPM addresses "how" (Figure I). 

MPM is a critical component of e-Manufacturing, a broader business strategy that addresses the full industrial process, from the initial concept of a new product until it is delivered to the customer. MPM enables manufacturers to define how the product is going to be manufactured and then to deliver these processes to the shop floor. 
While the product design process defines an electronic bill of materials - the "what" - MPM defines an electronic bill of processes (eB0P) - the "how." This information is stored on a server that allows easy access and management of data throughout the enterprise. MPM contributes a common language for the description of manufacturing processes and offers a collaborative environment that facilitates the exchange of information. The eBOP serves both as a clear and defined way of how to describe the manufacturing process and as an information carrier that allows for packaging all information about a process or a manufacturing line in order to send it to someone else. 
The concept is realised through a database hosting a process model that describes manufacturing operations as well as required resources and affected product components. Various planning tools are connected to this database - spanning everything from digital mock-up analysis, to defining the production steps, optimising the workplaces with a human model and creating documentation (Figure 2). 

(Integrating Human Aspects in Production Management, Harinder S. Jagdev,Patricia Stock,2005, pp. 102-103)






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