Windchill MPMLink

The industry’s first integral solution for Manufacturing Process Management

Everyday, manufacturing engineers are faced with the challenge of ensuring that their process plans, manufacturing bill of materials (mBOMs), & work instructions accurately reflect the current engineering design. It’s typically not until the design is completed that design engineering involves manufacturing engineering to define “how” a product is to be made in a specific factory. But if manufacturing process management (MPM) could be done in synch with engineering, operating on the same design data, it could have a significant positive impact on reducing product cost, improving the accuracy of manufacturing deliverables, and shortening development cycle time.

Windchill MPMLink is the answer – an integral PLM application designed for manufacturing engineers. It gives them the tools they regularly need to digitally design and manage all of their process plan deliverables concurrently with design.

Benefits:

• Reduce time-to-market by enabling concurrent product and manufacturing process definition
• Enhance efficiency of manufacturing engineers by allowing them to digitally author and manage manufacturing process plans and the associated resources
• Lower the cost of changes by streamlining change impact identification and propagation as well as reducing the number of expensive late-stage changes
• Improve production ramp-up and productivity by using Windchill MPMLink to efficiently optimize manufacturing processes and dynamically generate 2D and 3D work instructions
• Improve product quality by reducing scrap and rework
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership by eliminating multiple legacy and MS Office-based solutions

Automatically associate engineering bill of materials (eBOM) with manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM)
Windchill MPMLink allows you to have a single, integral system that can transform the eBOM into multiple mBOMs while keeping relationships with traceability links.

Digital Process Plans
Define plant-specific process plans in terms of sequences and operations to describe how a part is manufactured, assembled, reworked, repaired and/or inspected.

Integral Change and Configuration Management
Fully manage manufacturing configurations with revision control, lifecycle management, effectivity and access control.

Dynamically Generate Rich, Visual Shop Floor Work Instructions
Access instructions via a simple Web browser.

Manage Libraries of Resources and Manufacturing Standards
Define and manage libraries of both physical and human resources, along with their compatibilities.

Integration with ERP and MES systems
Electronically deliver routings and mBOMs using transactionally secure, enterprise system integration technology.