Proplanner: New solutions for the manufacturing workspace

Hagerman and Company recently teamed up with Proplanner and their suite of products to offer manufacturing clients a unique tool to help determine how and where products are made and handled. There are two basic solutions, one for direct labor and one for indirect labor.

For direct labor, Proplanner’s Workspace Planner solution can be used by manufacturing or process engineers. The Workspace Planner solutions will utilize your AutoCAD 2002 or later layout to do the following:

1) Create people flow diagrams that show how people and parts flow though your workspace.
2) Animate people and part movement from within the workspace for validation and/or educational purposes
3) Provide accurate reports of distance and time associated with people travel from within the workspace.
4) Calculate the energy used by the workers within the workspace.
5) Help you determine the number of people required in a workspace for the level of production you need.
6) Help you determine the percentage of work that is adding value versus that work which is not adding value, including walking, picking up or setting down parts or tools.

For indirect labor, the Flow Path Calculator solution can also be used by manufacturing or process engineers. The Flow Path Calculator will also utilize your AutoCAD 2002 layout to

1) Create people and material flow diagrams that show how people and materials flow through your factory.
2) Determine the distance, cost and time associated with material travel within a particular AutoCAD layout.
3) Calculate the number of material handling people required for the production that you need.
4) Help you determine if fork trucks, conveyors or other equipment is needed to move the material around the factory.
5) Determine if your aisles needed wide enough.
6) Help you decide where to put a new machine or define a new workplace.

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The Proplanner solutions will help your reduce the time required to launch newly designed processes into your manufacturing environment or help you better understand your current process and where and why you might have bottlenecks.

We are very excited about these new solutions for our clients and have scheduled a series of upcoming events, for you to take a closer look at the software. For more information, please visit our Web site for more details or contact a Hagerman & Company associate.

 

This page last edited on Tuesday, September 19, 2006