Plant Shop

Modeling, simulating, visualizing and optimizing discrete production systems

Benefits Summary Improve production system ® ’s Shop enables you to model, metrics, as validated by simulate, visualize and optimize the flow of customer orders through a shop experiences of real-world floor production system. Its capabilities can be used by engineers to plan Siemens PLM Software clients: your production system and by your preparation staff and managing clerks to • Electronics industry project optimize the production plan for daily operation. Users can take advantage of showed 23 percent Plant Simulation Shop’s object-oriented modeling and modular design throughput improvement techniques to accelerate the creation of your production plan and to improve • Truck industry project its performance in terms of throughput, order scheduling, machine reduced its time for utilization, space utilization and predictability. scheduling metrics (which included complex sched­ uling) from 40 hours to 4 hours • Major OEM project realized 13 percent throughput reduction • Tier 1 automotive supplier reduced setup time by more than 60 percent • Large diesel engine manufacturer saved $70K per year from work-in- process improvements and space reductions • Client’s bottlenecked shop floor increased machine capacity by 10 percent

Plant Simulation Shop provides an application object library that you can use to model, simulate, visualize and optimize a production system on an object- oriented basis. By modeling the workshop principles of your production system, you define how production orders are forwarded through production and how you can control the material flow of your production system to improve its daily performance.

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Plant Simulation Shop

Benefits continued Two kinds of users are able to take Plant Simulation Shop enables you to Facilitate other production advantage of Plant Simulation Shop: establish a forecast table where you can system improvements, • Engineers can leverage Plant Simulation organize your products into appropriate including the ability to: Shop’s material requirements planning product groups that you manage and • Produce more parts in capabilities to create a production plan monitor. These product groups are less time that is used to schedule customer orders exploded into a material requirements plan. • Balance machine • Your preparation staff and managing utilization better clerks can use Plant Simulation Shop to You can manage your production orders • Reduce/eliminate optimize the production plan on a daily with respect to their lot size by generating overtime work operational basis production orders from the material • Reduce wait times and requirements plan. Stock from production thereby reduce the asset in Establishing a production plan orders that are too big will be offset production Plant Simulation Shop’s material against later plan orders. There will be no • Shorten delivery times and requirements planning capabilities enable production orders during the planning reduce delivery delays you to break down the bill of materials and phase for lot sizes managed in accordance • React to fast changing establish production lots for individual with the Kanban rule. Instead, these lots market demands components and products. These will be handled through simulation runs. Improve production capabilities allow you to create a forecast planning by: of assumed demand that, in turn, will You can use Plant Simulation Shop for • Reducing time required to become the basis for your system’s scheduling purposes by displaying single create the production plan production plan. plant orders in easy-to-understand Gantt • Optimizing MRP/ERP (PPS) charts. Plant Simulation Shop uses the system parameters At this point, you can set up customer rules of production control to manage • Optimizing the production orders against the production plan. If real- multiple orders that start at the same time sequence world conditions arise where actual and to decide which order starts first. You Flexibly optimize the customer orders exceed your plan orders, can use these controls to process the production plan by: you can use Plant Simulation Shop to start product order list in sequence, establish • Examining the product plan your rush orders. individual priorities manually, consider the and assessing various due dates of individual orders, or use operational scenarios randomized priorities. • Evaluating well balanced shift models on the basis of resource and work utilization • Evaluating different production sequences in terms of their throughput per hour and output per day TECNOMATIX

Features • Interactive graphical interface that facilitates the fast display of material and job flow through the use of predefined objects, such as: - Planning control stations (master requirements planning and order planning) - Production control - Processing stations - Purchase manager (provider, unit cost prices, delivery times) - Warehouse manager (storages, stock) • Integrated material requirements planning that displays delayed orders • Integrated objects for evaluating storage fill levels • Simulation run displays that include resource utilization, Plant Simulation Shop’s support for the production plan, whose feasibility you can product plans, costs and rules of production control and process subsequently check and validate from a machine occupations sequencing enable you to account for a real-world perspective. presented in dialog boxes, variety of factors such as first suitable, tables and Gantt charts longest/shortest waiting time, longest/ During this optimization process, you can shortest operation time, longest/shortest use Plant Simulation Shop to optimize your System requirements completion time and time of delivery – production planning and control • In order to use Plant along with other order-related variables. parameters. More specifically, you can: Simulation Shop, you must • Supplement your existing PPS have a license for Plant In addition, you can use Plant Simulation (enterprise resource planning/ Simulation Professional, Shop to analyze and calculate production manufacturing resource planning) Plant Simulation Standard or and product costs. When you use Plant systems to optimize their system Plant Simulation Application. Simulation Shop to apply cost calculations parameters • The Plant Simulation to a specific cost center, you define the • Perform realistic feasibility checks on Runtime license already cost per hour and price for an external your production plan contains Plant Simulation product in the system’s master data table. • Evaluate diverse business and Shop for usage. manufacturing scenarios Optimizing your production plan • Precisely plan given task profiles by Once you understand the particulars that utilizing current factory-specific apply to a given customer order, you can operational data use Plant Simulation Shop to create a

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