Entries Tagged: Plant Design And Optimization

by Markus Erlmann | 07 May 2010

This is not an easy task as the amount of information to take into account is huge. Starting with architectural information like the plant layout to libraries of standard manufacturing equipment which can be used to build the products to the required output of the manufacturing lines.

In addition there are a lot of people from different departments involved which need to communicate to finally get an optimized, reliable and well functioning factory.

In a previous blog post Brad Whitmore from Procter & Gamble described how he and his team solved this challenge.

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by Markus Erlmann | 30 Nov 2009

Many of you probably use or consume Procter & Gamble (P&G) products in some fashion almost every day. I certainly do, at least when I shave anyway. But it wasn’t until I thought about the fact that P&G uses simulation software – to optimize material flow, resource utilization and logistics – that I realized just how many products they produce every day around the world, and the high volumes associated with each of those products.

We had the opportunity to talk with the P&G Technology Section Head for Global Computer Aided Engineering, Brad Whitmore about the challenges they face and the success they’ve achieved by using our simulation software. Actually, Jeff Miller will be talking about them at the Winter Simulation Conference and highlighting the success they have had with the Tecnomatix Plant Design and Optimization solution.

I just got a sneak-preview from him

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Tags: tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Plant Design and Optimization | Plant Simulation | PDO | Winter Simulation Conference |

by Markus Erlmann | 04 Nov 2009

The Plant Simulation User Conference 2009 was a very interesting conference with 110 customers participating and 10 of them presenting the usage and success they achieve with Plant Simulation. Additional presentations from development and marketing as well as live demonstrations were shown during the conference.

The first session of the Plant Simulation User Conference was done by Jeff Miller, Tecnomatix Marketing Manager. He provided an overview about the Plant Design and Optimization solution. Plant Simulation is a major component of this solution.

The use of the Plant Design and Optimization solution enables you to design factories in 3D (which is actually faster than the design in 2D due to smart objects). In addition to the design, the simulation and optimization of the material flow is a major benefit.

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by Markus Erlmann | 01 Sep 2009

Have you ever had the opportunity to visit the shop floor of a manufacturing company? I have … to be more specific, I worked on an assembly line for textile machines before I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). I was fascinated with the traffic on the shop floor – all of the forklifts driving around and the amount of workers carrying material from one workstation to another. Of course this was more than 20 years ago.

Today companies optimize material flow to reduce transportation, which is one of the seven wastes targeted by lean manufacturing practices. Reducing inventory costs and transportation devices can be achieved as well. The optimization of material flow can be a complex task that is influenced by many factors, like cycle time and required number of parts per hour, number and type of transportation devices, storage space at the line, delivery concepts like just-in-sequence and much more.

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Tags: tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Simulation | simulation | productivity | Productivity | Manufacturing | Plant Design and Optimization | Material Flow | Shop Floor |

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