TEcnOMaTIx Plant Design and Optimization Benefits Summary • Effective communication of Tecnomatix® software’s Plant Design and Optimization solution enables design principles diverse teams to layout and optimize factory designs in a shared • Enhanced cross-functional environment. You can rapidly develop factory layouts using 3D and team communications parametric smart objects that facilitate the early discovery of design flaws. • Globalized workflow and Material handling, logistics and indirect labor are optimized by comparing release management part routing information, material storage needs, material handling • 50 percent reduction in equipment specifications and packaging information against the factory factory design time when layout. This approach increases planning accuracy and efficiency, which helps compared with 2D minimize capital investment and maximize ROI. • 15 percent reduction in tooling and equipment A comprehensive solution for collaboratively designing and optimizing changes your factory facilities • Optimized re-use of existing Tecnomatix Plant Design and Optimization enables manufacturing companies capital equipment to create factory models faster and ensure that these virtual plants will • Up to 70 percent reduction in operate at peak efficiency before production rampup. By allowing material handling costs manufacturers to see the outcome of their factory plans in virtual models, • Optimized resource utilization and material flow • Reductions in nonvalue- added work and indirect labor costs • Optimized space utilization at factory and transport level • 5 to 20 percent reduction in new system costs • 20 to 60 percent decrease in throughput times • 20 to 60 percent reduction in inventory level • 15 to 20 percent increase in productivity of existing systems TECNOMATIX www.siemens.com/tecnomatix TEcnOMaTIx Plant Design and Optimization Features Plant Design and Optimization lets you 3D factory design and avoid wasting time and resources fixing visualization: problems on the plant floor. • “Smart” 3D factory objects with built-in design rules Plant Design and Optimization is a • ability to build parametric solution comprised of four key capa bilities, factory equipment with including: xML toolkit • 3D factory design and visualization • ability to link factory layout capabilities, including parametric-based with throughput simulation smart objects, that team members can via SDx use to develop the factory layout and • Direct import and tooling identify early design issues. and product data from JT™ • Factory logistics analysis and technology, NX™ software, optimization capabilities that team Solid Edge® software and members use to optimize material Parasolid® applications handling, logistics and indirect labor by impact of equipment placement on the Factory logistics analysis and comparing part routing information, factory floor or material flow throughout optimization: material storage needs, material the facility. • computation and handling equipment specifications and visualization of material part packaging information against the Throughput of the individual lines is also flow diagrams factory layout. critical, as is efficient planning and optimi- • analysis and validation of • Production throughput simulation zation of the rest of the facility. assembly operator walk-paths capabilities that provide you with the processes require precise planning of the • calculation of material data necessary to make intelligent facility’s delivery concepts, storage needs handling equipment needs business decisions related to the and transport concepts. • Spatial design of material required capabilities, buffer sizing and storage areas strategies of the factory and the ability Plant Design and Optimization addresses Production throughput to minimize capital investment while these issues with the following four key simulation: maximizing long term ROI. capabilities. • Bottleneck analysis • Collaborative factory design • 3D visualization of the management that provides diverse 3D factory design and visualization simulation teams with the ability to capture and Traditional factory design processes are • Optimization of system communicate the factory model’s design prone to error. Design teams find it hard to parameters based on genetic principles and standard resources in a understand the impact of equipment algorithm collaborative environment. selection and equipment placement on the • Hierarchical simulation factory floor when these activities are structure with object Today’s factory planning challenges expressed in 2D layout environments. inheritance Producing and selling more products does • Integrated object library not necessarily lead to more profit. If your With 3D factory design and visualization, management, which also manufacturing operations are running Plant Design and Optimization provides facilitates shared project inefficiently, you could end up spending factory teams with critical insight into development within a more money than you make by having to the factory design, layout and installation team environment compensate for those manufacturing processes. The use of “smart objects” • Statistical evaluation and deficiencies. makes it much easier for teams to automatic report generation understand and represent all of your collaborative factory design Inefficiency usually begins in the early factory resources (from conveyors, management: stages of factory design, especially during mezzanines and cranes to containers, • In-context editing of multiple facility and workcell layout, when diverse automatic guided vehicles (aGV’s) factory regions, departments cross-functional teams fail to communicate and operators). and stations effectively. In addition, antiquated tools, • concurrent design of such as 2D layout and paper drawings, 3D layout and planning helps minimize factory facilities are unable to properly account for the interpretation errors by enabling team • ability to seamlessly move members to see how factory smart objects between datasets objects interact with one another inside • Management of object a virtual facility. versioning, effectivity and incremental change TEcnOMaTIx Factory logistics analysis and Production throughput simulation potential within a 2D or 3D environment. optimization numerous factors impact the operational These evaluations can include transport Manufacturing operations try to squeeze efficiency and throughput of your strategies, lot sizes and delivery concepts maximum productivity out of their direct manufacturing operations. Companies find across the entire factory. Optimizing the labor investments, including machines on it difficult to determine the optimal characteristics – worker schedules, the line, tooling and fixtures, workers at configuration for their new production required number of resources and their stations and their production systems. They also find it hard to establish capacities – of your production systems processes. However, many companies proper levels of work-in-process inventory, enables you to make verified business find it difficult to quantify and analyze appropriate production schedules and the decisions early based on real numbers, their indirect labor or adopt lean manu- right production throughput to resource which saves you millions of dollars during facturing initiatives. utilization ratio. full production. Through production throughput simulation Collaborative factory design (discrete event simulation), Plant Design management and Optimization allows you to make numerous disciplines participate in the intelligent business decisions about your design, layout and installation of a typical factory design, buffer sizing, capacities factory, including groups responsible for and production strategies. By tying your the basic architecture, industrial engi- factory layout with discrete event neering and layout planning – as well as simulation, this Tecnomatix solution external suppliers such as line builders and enables you to rapidly develop multiple equipment vendors. These disciplines production scenarios and analyze them for often find it difficult to communicate bottlenecks, efficiency and throughput effectively, properly control design revisions, manage the release process or account for external supply chain activity. Plant Design and Optimization’s collab- orative factory design management Plant Design and Optimization’s factory capabilities provide your diverse teams logistics analysis and optimization with a single environment they can use to capabilities enable you to optimize your capture and manage the large volumes of factory layout on the basis of material flow facility data they share. They also can use distances, frequency and cost. You can this environment to work together in a evaluate the impact of your part routing, variety of automated layout and facility material storage, material handling engineering processes. equipment and part packaging needs. As a result, you can create an optimized and productive factory with reduced part travel distances, lot sizes and inventory levels. © 2010 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software contact Inc. all rights reserved. Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens aG. 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