Part Planner

Providing the right people with the right data to improve the part manufacturing planning process

Benefits Summary • Save time planning for piece- Teamcenter® software’s manufacturing process management solution part manufacturing provides Part Planner capabilities for enabling manufacturing engineers, NC • Reduce cost of errors and programmers, tool designers and managers to work in a managed improve quality environment with built-in applications for creating outline process plans, • Access the right data faster managing and associating tools, and creating reports targeted at part • Improve communication manufacturing. This application links the tasks of manufacturing planning across manufacturing while extending data access to the shop floor. With faster access to the right disciplines data from a common information platform, users are able to improve • Manage manufacturing communications, eliminate errors and save time during the piece-part planning processes manufacturing planning process.

Business challenges • Reducing planning and manufacturing costs • Shortening product planning cycles • Improving product and process quality • Effectively managing regulatory compliance requirements • Working with geographically dispersed teams

Features • Manage manufacturing related data, files, documentation • Leverage 3D product data in manufacturing planning Define the manufacturing process sequence and associate product, resource (tooling, • Manage ptp, shop doc, clsf, fixtures) and plant (machines, work cells) data. template files • Re-use tooling and fixtures • Capture and classify best An effective manufacturing plan includes information that describes what is practices for later use being manufactured, how it will be manufactured, what resources will be required during manufacturing and where it will be produced. This information resides in various files created by the manufacturing planning department that includes the part file, NC programs, shop documentation,

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Features continued tool lists, specifications and drawings. For In addition, Part Planner automatically • Embed quality checks optimal part manufacturing efficiency, generates work instructions for your Automate reporting, change plan data and processes must be properly manufacturing plan. You can assign control, workflow managed and connected in an environment postprocessor and machine tool simulation • Store calculated machining that all players in the manufacturing files, managed in Teamcenter to ensure and cutting tool usage time organization can access to communicate proper versioning and availability across to estimate utilization and collaborate with each other during the multiple user/sites, to operation steps. requirements manufacturing planning process, as well • Bidirectionally integrate with as to locate the information they need for Managing product and process data NX CAM software this process. You can employ Teamcenter to establish a • Integrate fully with single source for managing your manu­ Teamcenter’s manufacturing Defining the manufacturing plan facturing data elements and enabling process management You can use Part Planner to create a entitled users to view and obtain detailed solution and its resource manufacturing process in both a planning information. Teamcenter can manager for tooling, fixtures, hierarchical structure and a process manage a wide variety of information, machines, templates and sequence (e.g. casting inspection process, including machine tools, cutting tools, standard operations machining process 1, machining process 2, workpieces, part files, NC programs, setup finishing process, inspection process, templates, postprocessor and machine tool coating process) using graphical editing simulation files, CLS files, postprocessor and displays. output files, work instructions and work cell configurations. You can assign and associate standard resources, manufacturing specifications You can leverage Part Planner to vault, and plant information to each operation search and access product/process data to step. You can facilitate collaboration by facilitate re-use, editing and review. You linking data created by others to the can also use it to check-in and check-out manufacturing process. data, as well as to automatically manage revisions. Because NX™ CAM software is You can also use Part Planner to create and integrated with Teamcenter’s manufac­ classify process/operation templates so turing process management solution, NX they can be re-used for multiple purposes. CAM data is fully managed. TECNOMATIX

Validating the manufacturing plan Connecting planning to shop You can use Part Planner to ensure that floor systems your process sequence is properly defined You can connect Teamcenter’s manu­ through reporting and visualization facturing process management solution capabilities that can be applied to your and DNC (Direct Numerical Control) to cost estimates and part diagrams. provide access and direct transfer of machining plan data to CNC machines on You can identify and update the the shop floor. You can transfer manufac­ manufacturing process to reflect design turing planning resources from the NC changes and analyze the impact of program to the shop floor to ensure manu­ changes on the manufacturing process and facturing instructions are kept consistent operations. You can store estimated with production practices. machining and cutting tool utilization time for NC programs to help plan for cutting In addition to improving the overall part tool replacement and machine tool setup fabrication planning process, Part Planner requirements. also makes the jobs of everyone involved in the planning activity easier. For example: Coordinating the planning process • Manufacturing engineers can create Part Planner enables you to work with outline part manufacturing process others in the organization by assigning, plans and store proven process methods routing and tracking progress on work as best-practice templates for re-use in tasks and by using workflow automation later jobs. tools. For example, you can assign steps to • Tooling professionals can manage specific NC programmers. tooling and fixtures in a central library, assign them to operations or cells and You can use Part Planner to load, compare even create simple assembly operations. and modify multiple process plans. You • NC programmers can leverage a process- can view, approve, reject and comment based environment to manage NC on product and process information, as programming data, eliminating the need well as release completed process data for user file management in personal to production. directories on local PC discs. Data created by NX CAM can be automatically managed in the context of machining operations.

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