PLM Manufacturing Process Management2023-06-20T15:06:00-07:00

PLM Manufacturing Process Management

Design anywhere, manufacture anywhere: Ensure a seamless flow of information between engineering and manufacturing.

Extending PLM Into Manufacturing

TriStar PLM Solutions knows Exponential growth in customer-driven product configurations requires manufacturers to find more flexible ways of production. Combine that with supply chain interruptions, evolving safety regulations, and time-to-market pressures, and the challenges can be daunting.

Manufacturing process management (MPM) provides the tools and methodologies for today’s dynamic plant-specific manufacturing environments, all coordinated through PLM. MPM brings together the shop floor with engineering, suppliers, logistics, and quality for a more connected and agile enterprise. As the 2022 Manufacturing Outlook is coming back quickly, it will be even more important to invest in tools that will help your company and its manufacturing process management.

Reducing Time for Industrial Ramp-Up with PLM Manufacturing Process Management

Simply designing the best product is not enough. You need to launch it without delays if you hope to maintain a competitive advantage. A slower-than-desired ramp-up of production capacity can lead to lost sales, while inherent issues in quality can damage brand reputation.

With a single source of truth to product data as the basis for MPM, associativity, traceability, change control, and security are all created, then automated for concurrent engineering and manufacturing. Planners will have greater confidence in such data and benefit from fewer errors in their manual processes.

Companies can accelerate time to manufacturing, ensuring that small changes in engineering don’t have a large impact on production. Watch the video to see how Polaris deployed MPM.

PLM Manufacturing Process Management: The Right Data at The Right Time

The manufacturing bill of material (MBOM) is the key to how the manufacturing process runs. It is where you anchor your product configuration rules and introduce new materials. From the MBOM, manufacturing process management allows you to see how your product is assembled. With PTC’s MPM capabilities, data gathered from the shop floor can be looped back for greater process efficiencies. Technical work instructions are then made available to the end user on-demand, whether on a screen or with AR, for faster and more accurate execution.

PLM Manufacturing Process Management - Windchill Enterprise PLM solution

Key Product Features:

  • Bi-Directional Associative EBOM to MBOM: Leverage 3D data and structured meta-data for BOM transformation with systematic traceability (equivalent links) and reconciliation between related BOMs

  • Plant Master Data Management: Create plant specific MBOM structures including different views, part numbers, branches, and plant specific information

  • Validation: Validate the time, cost and feasibility of defined processes prior to sharing with the shop floor

  • Integrated Change Management: Streamlined reconciliation of product design changes into process planning

  • Process Plans and Resource Management: Define plant-specific process plans with multiple sequences of operations and resource libraries (i.e. plants, work centers, tooling, skills, process materials)

  • Visual Work Instructions: Dynamically generate work instructions with in-context visuals (documents, digital, and AR)

  • Exchange with Other Systems: Integrate manufacturing processes and deliverables to downstream ERP/MRP teams.

  • Digital Quality: Define and allocate 3D control characteristics to process plan operations; define non-geometrical control characteristics and libraries of standard control characteristics; integrate quality processes (i.e. PFMEA)

  • Factory Digital Twin: Represent smart factory as an input to defining your process plan

  • 3D Visualization: Creo View for manufacturing process management can read information from manufacturing product structure

PLM Manufacturing Process Management - Windchill Enterprise PLM solution

Explore PTC’s Windchill enterprise PLM solution. With its breakthrough PLM capabilities, Windchill enables you to adopt a parts-centric approach to managing your bill of materials with a single source of truth to all product data. Experience true closed-loop lifecycle management from early concept through all iterations, design cycles, and stages until your product is fully released.

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