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System’s support of the ETO and CTO product design activities is usually good, but the management of the planning, scheduling, and manufacturing operations through the systems often suffers:

• Planning and dates promising often rely on high-level estimates of material and labour costs (offers stage) with potential low visibility of conflicts with the load already committed.
• Detailed Scheduling often lacks the required detailed master data until late, often until things are already in production, making it difficult to rely on anything but spreadsheets to perform it.
• Execution process definitions are often outdated due to the time it takes to propagate design changes through the systems, making it difficult to react to changes, measure and consolidate a planned vs executed project or program costs control, be right first time, and support non-conformances and continuous improvement feedback loops.

In this context, systems pains can quickly convert into performance pains. Not having the right master data at the right time induces errors, shortages, reworks, and generates many non-added value efforts to chase data and work around the systems.

3DEXPERIENCE Factory scheduling and execution Power’by make it now possible to leverage model-based practices to enable the collaboration of process engineering, scheduling, and execution, on a common platform based data model.

For the ETO and CTO manufacturing, skipping the ERP bottleneck to propagate process definitions, MBOMs, 3D work instructions, and gathering feedback in context from the floor can be a game changer in helping to shorten internal lead times and achieve lean operations objectives.

• Better optimization and control of the costs and customer due dates
• Simplified monitoring of production plans and progress through a single referential
• Improved quality with execution connected to process engineering
• Reduced time from engineering to scheduling and execution
• Accelerated management of changes, issues analysis, and rework definitions 

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