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What's New and Cool in Plant Design and Optimization What’s new and cool in Plant Design and Optimization Tecnomatix: Further enhancements for the Plant Design and Optimization solution Benefits Summary • Effective communication of Tecnomatix® Plant Design and Optimization delivers significant design principles manufacturing productivity gains. This solution enables you to create • Enhanced cross-functional factories faster through the use of virtual models, ensuring that your team communication factories are operating at peak efficiency before production ramp-up. The • Globalized workflow and Plant Design and Optimization solution includes enhancements across its four release management major products, including FactoryCAD, FactoryFLOW, Plant Simulation and • 50 percent reduction in In-Context Editor (ICE). factory design time as compared to 2D methods 3D factory design and visualization (FactoryCAD) • 15 percent reduction in tooling and equipment Support for native 64-bit eliminates memory limits FactoryCAD can run in changes a native 64-bit environment, which will improve performance significantly • Optimized re-use of existing when you are working with very large 3D AutoCAD/FactoryCAD datasets. capital equipment • Up to 70 percent reduction in material handling costs • Optimized resource utilization and material flow • Reductions in nonvalue- added work and indirect labor costs • Optimized space utilization at factory and transport levels • 5 to 20 percent reduction in new system costs • 20 to 60 percent decrease in throughput times • 20 to 60 percent reduction in inventory levels • 15 to 20 percent increase in productivity of existing systems TECNOMATIX www.siemens.com/tecnomatix TECNOMATIX What’s new and cool in Plant Design and Optimization amounts of data to be kept in memory for efficient processing. OPC interface OLE for Process Control (OPC) is an industry standard specification for accessing PLC hardware. Plant Simulation offers an OPC object that establishes a connection with an OPC server, enabling you to read and write attributes. You can use this object to create simulation models directly connected to productivity throughout your manufactur- real-world production equipment without ing facility. The daily tugger route the need for any programming. algorithm was enhanced to minimize the Factory logistics analysis and total distance of routes and the total Teamcenter data interface The optimization (FactoryFLOW) number of trips, making use of container/ Teamcenter® data interface allows for the trip limitations for each part while taking configuration, access and exchange of Support for native 64-bit eliminates starving/overloading of stations into relevant data between Plant Simulation memory limits FactoryFLOW can run in a consideration. and Teamcenter. The movement of that native 64-bit environment, which enables data into Plant Simulation is handled via you to analyze more parts and larger New material handling activity an application interface in Teamcenter and datasets in less time. FactoryFLOW enables you to further a dedicated user-interface dialog in Plant define material handling activity through Simulation, facilitating the creation of New container packing for shop floor the use of equations,templates and discrete-event simulation models directly storage areas FactoryFLOW offers variables, such as container dimensions from process data stored and managed container packing capabilities that enable and part weight. This approach makes it within Teamcenter. you to plan your shop floor storage areas much easier to support material handling in 3D. You can use first-in first-out (FIFO) standards from your industrial engineering principles to develop efficient storage of department since these calculations are everything from raw inventory to finished much more accurate. goods. Efficient storage of materials ensures that resources are not wasted due New material handling equipment time to unnecessary handling efforts. allowances FactoryFLOW enables you to use time allowances to define material New container packing for truck trailers handling equipment, off-aisle distances, and delivery vans Similar to shop floor unit loads and even secondary containers. storage, FactoryFLOW provides container This ensures that indirect labor and packing capabilities that allow you to plan material handling functions within the the loading and unloading of truck trailers virtual environment will closely match and delivery vans in 3D. FactoryFLOW uses your real environment, thereby ensuring the principles of last-in first-out (LIFO) to more accurate accounting of material ensure efficient loading strategies for your flow within the factory. transportation spaces (truck trailers, vans) that minimize wasted resources otherwise Production throughput simulation caused by unnecessary handling of (Plant Simulation) transported materials. Support for native 64-bit eliminates Enhanced tugger route analysis and memory limits Plant Simulation can optimization FactoryFLOW enhances your run in a native 64-bit environment. ability to develop and optimize tugger This enables you to create simulation routes. These enhancements facilitate very models for very large production precise load balancing between different environments that require large tugger routes, ensuring maximum TECNOMATIX Material handling equipment support Collaborative factory design Plant Simulation delivers a converter management (In-Context Editor) object that can orthogonally connect moving conveyors, passing parts straight In-Context editing In-Context Editor (ICE) through or laterally without changing the integration between FactoryCAD and orientation of the moving parts. The Teamcenter allows you to work with turnplate object is a rotating platform facility structures configured in conveyor that can rotate the loaded parts Teamcenter directly within AutoCAD and and ensure the uniform orientation of the FactoryCAD. This enables you to build your leaving parts. facilities in your own context without being constrained by CAD file to CAD file Transporter object enhancements Plant Multi-portal crane object Plant associations and helps to overcome Simulation delivers an enhanced Simulation delivers a multi-portal crane AutoCAD XREF limitations, relieving the transporter object including a modeled object that can pick up a part and place it burden of dealing with the entire facility cross-sliding car that can move conveyed anywhere within a facility, temporarily dataset while making edits to a specific parts from one conveyor onto another, clamp and hold components while work is plant area. utilize the length-oriented loading space of performed, and load/unload parts to the transporter object, and distance machines. The multi-portal crane can be Edit multiple part files simultaneously control to prevent moving parts/transports defined to move on runways on the floor ICE enables you to have multiple part files from getting too close to/far away from or on rails in the ceiling of the production in edit mode within a single session one another. area. Available functions for detecting without having to switch between collisions of the portals prevent them from different part files. Once you initiate a colliding with each other, allowing for “Save,” the individual entities will be saved several multi-portal cranes to drive on the to their respective part files as if you had same crane runway. been working on them individually. 3D visibility enhancements and Sankey diagram Plant Simulation delivers several enhancements to the 3D viewer and its modeling capabilities, including a 3D Sankey diagram display. This 3D Sankey diagram can easily be configured to visualize multiple products, curves and transport quantities within the 3D window. Lockout zone support Plant Simulation provides a lockout zone object that allows your model to observe and manage the failures of a group of stations/machines. The lockout zone, which provides statistics of its own, displays a new model state (“stopped”) when at least one station in the lockout zone has failed. TECNOMATIX Work offline from Teamcenter ICE does not require you to be connected to Teamcenter at all times. This capability enables you to work offline at a remote location or on the shop floor. This facilitates better supplier community support by enabling participants to work with you collaboratively. Any work or edits performed offline will be synchronized back into Teamcenter once a connection is restored, streamlining your data exchanges. Revise on Checkout You can revise released items directly from the ICE project window in AutoCAD. Once the item is revised, it can be modified within the ICE session and changes can be saved to Teamcenter. This enables you to continue working in AutoCAD without the need to go back and forth to Teamcenter. Publish and Release ICE enables you to “publish” (save) data to Teamcenter while working on a project and then “publish and release” the data when your drawing is finalized. This capability ensures that the these fields in Teamcenter, while ensuring data stored in Teamcenter is not modified synchronization between attributes in your and facilitates your ability to work in an drawing files and attributes in Teamcenter. AutoCAD-centric mode, improving your productivity by allowing you to do Classification ICE enables you to classify everything from a single interface. drawings in Teamcenter after you publish (save) them so that the drawings can be Attribute synchronization ICE enables easily located based on user-defined you to automatically
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