What questions come into your mind if you hear the term "Process Planning"?

Perhaps questions like:

What is Process Planning?

What Process Planning capabilities do you have in DELMIA Digital Manufacturing?

How does Process Planning in DELMIA help me to implement Industrie 4.0?

What user roles do you support?

What are the added values for me if I use these roles?

These and other questions have been answered and discussed on July 30th in a dedicated session at the DELMIA Community Summit in Troy, Michigan.

Around the globe the Manufacturing Race is going on:

One of the overarching aspects of this competition is the end-to-end digital integration of engineering across the value chain.

Process Planning helps you to fulfill this promise and enables you to plan the perfect launch by merging the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing.

DELMIA’s comprehensive Process Planning solution enables you to  “Design, Validate and Document your Processes”.

The DELMIA Process Planning portfolio is organized along user roles like Process Planner, Fastener Process Planner, Time Study Analyst, Work Instructions Designer, Industrial Engineer, Process Simulation Analyst, Assembly Simulation Expert, Process Simulation Reviewer and Plant Layout Designer.

As an example, the Industrial Engineer delivers the following values:

• Define and experience material and physical resource flow in the 3D factory
• Early detection of trouble spots/bottle necks to optimize system performance & production rate with alternate routings.
• Integration with planning data for early validation of manufacturing process plans.
• Intuitive UI for easy adoption by the user community.

American General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “Planning is everything”.