With SP Project, this module is the second one at the heart of the Steel Projects solution. It includes all the SP Project’s features. SP Production allows management, preparation, optimization and monitoring of production (Live monitoring is allowed by the collection of automatic and manual feedback from the shop floor. Refer to the SP Workshop description).
Create a virtual representation workshop composed of all its workstations (CNC machines and manual workstations). Configure all the operations available for each. Access to emulators to visualize production before it actually starts (Optional).
Configure preferred workflows according to profile types, dimensions, and possible other factors. When several machines with the same features are available, change those workflows live depending on the information available such as the current machines loads, potential breakdowns or di erent constraints.
Forecasted production times can be calculated according to predefined formulas. Those are available by parts, groups of parts, nesting, or fabrication jobs, and by workstations and more precisely by specific operations.
Allocate the jobs into a GANTT chart in order to help you schedule your production and then anticipate the required resources to produce your projects.
Once production is prepared, export all the necessary files to the desired workstations: CNC data for machines, work order for manual workstations.
It is possible to configure several sites and their associated virtual workshop and workflows and manage them from one. Jobs can also be exported to those external sites.
Configure multiple steps that you want to track throughout the shop floor (CNC machines and manual workstation). Apply one color for each in order to track production with those colors.
Those colors can be seen directly in the 3D model in Steel Projects, or at di erent levels in the available lists: project, plan, assembly, secondary part, fabrication job.
At each desired workstation (automatic or manual), see the following live information in a dedicated table:
Available on Android mobile application: Workshop Monitoring
Partially available on Android mobile application: Production Analysis
Generate necessary traceability reports (as long as if you implement the right traceability processes → see SP Workshop description).
Send information back and forth from the oce to the shop floor in order to know what is happening live and then be more reactive in decision making.
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