MPP (Manufacturing Process Planner)
• Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) allows design, engineering, manufacturing, plants and suppliers into Virtual Enterprise.
• MPP helps manufacturers implement the best production planning strategies by evaluating Alternative Manufacturing Scenarios, maximize resource utilization and optimize throughput.
Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) allows design and manufacturing engineers to concurrently develop product and manufacturing planning. This collaboration framework ensures that manufacturing constraints are reconciled during product design and vice versa. Using Teamcenter’s change management capabilities, manufacturers can understand and react to changes originating at any pointin the design/plan/manufacture cycle.
By connecting all members of the design/build process — from design, engineering and manufacturing, to plants and suppliers — into one virtual enterprise, MPP helps manufacturers implement the best production planning strategies. MPP allows manufacturers to evaluate alternative manufacturing scenarios, maximize resource utilization, and optimize throughput at the very early stages of concept planning. It also provides a platform for developing common standards and allows them to be enforced with controlled flexibility in global manufacturing locations.
Teamcenter Manufacturing Solution Flow
Features
- Intuitive, dashboard-style user interface
- Process authoring via best-in-class templates
- Powerful search and accountability checks for process validation prior to implementation
- Integrated environment for product, process, plant and resource data
- Global access to manufacturing process information
- Ensure production lines are balanced and optimized
- Plant specific bill-of-process to accelerate reuse of assembly processes across plants
- Time management and analysis of value added and non-value added activities
- 2D/3D work instructions for greater clarity to the shop floor
- Seamlessly integrated with Process Simulate for advanced process optimization analysis
Benefits
- Increase your manufacturing planning productivity by up to 40%.
- Reduce lead time.
- Achieve quality & accuracy.
- Maximize use of resources.
- Reduction in inventory errors.
- Increase collaboration between product design, manufacturing and shop floor execution
- Enable re-use of proven processes and resources.
- Reduce cost of change with early detection and communication of product design issues
- Reduce waste
References/Case Studies
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Teamcenter MPP Implementation and Support
Client
Europe based electric vehicle manufacturer
Project Scope
- Helping customer establish Manufacturing Process Planner for its upcoming micro grid production line.
- Involved from beginning of the project.
Make sure architecture is fool-proof. - Acting as strategic partner and helping with design of solution.
- Define MBOM, BOP and BOE structures.
- Implement/Build PLM configuration.
- Installation setup and support.
- TC Data model Deployments
- AWC enhancements
Documentation and best practices. - L1, L2 , L3 Support.
Business Benefits
- 40% reduction in manufacturing planning operations.
- Accountability and Traceability between mBOM and eBOM reduced problems on the shop floor, and BOM accuracy increased resulting in smoother operations.
- Change management dramatically improved due to the link between engineering and manufacturing BOMs.
- Faster and better planning of manufacturing operations is possible.
Technology Stack:
Teamcenter 12, NX1899, AWC 4,2
Videos
MPP Interface in Teamcenter | EBOM MBOM Creation
Introduction to BOP and BOE in Teamcenter MPP
Teamcenter Easy Plan for ETO
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FAQ
What is Teamcenter MPP?
Teamcenter MPP is a software solution used for Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP). It helps manufacturers define, manage, and optimize the processes required to manufacture their products efficiently.
What are the benefits of Teamcenter MPP?
- – Increase your manufacturing planning productivity by up to 40%.
- – Increase collaboration between product design, manufacturing and shop floor execution
- – Enable re-use of proven processes and resources.
- – Reduce cost of change with early detection and communication of product design issues
What is the purpose of Teamcenter MPP?
Teamcenter MPP is designed to streamline and optimize the manufacturing process, from initial planning to execution. It enables manufacturers to create detailed manufacturing plans, manage resources, and improve overall production efficiency.
What is Teamcenter Manufacturing?
Teamcenter enables you to capture and manage manufacturing data, processes, resources, and plant information in the same single environment that you use to manage your product data.
What is manufacturing process planning?
Manufacturing Process Planning provides customers a single, scalable and secure source of manufacturing data that supports lifecycle processes from engineering through production. With a fully managed, single source of knowledge for products, processes, resources, and plants, customers can increase manufacturing’s influence on product innovation to drastically improve profitability, time-to-market, and quality.
Why Manufacturing Process Planning with Teamcenter MPP module?
Teamcenter Manufacturing Assembly Process Planning addresses a broad range of manufacturing applications utilized in process planning and data management to reduce the time to production, reduce overhead costs associated with planning activities, and improve product quality.
It allows design and manufacturing engineers to concurrently develop product and manufacturing planning. This collaboration framework ensures that manufacturing constraints are reconciled during product design and vice versa. Using Teamcenter’s change management capabilities, manufacturers can understand and react to changes originating at any point in the design/plan/manufacturing cycle
MPP helps manufacturers implement the best production planning strategies by evaluating Alternative Manufacturing Scenarios, maximizing resource utilization, and optimizing throughput.
This collaboration framework ensures that manufacturing constraints are reconciled during product design and vice versa. Using Teamcenter’s change management capabilities, manufacturers can understand and react to changes originating at any point in the design/plan/manufacture cycle.
Can we create multiple MBOMs using single EBOM?
Yes, we can create multiple MBOMs. MBOMs are created or defined based on plant-specific, and EBOMS is defined specific to vehicles so, for example, a single vehicle can be created in multiple plants and we can create multiple MBOMs using a single EBOM.
What is Plant structure in Teamcenter MPP?
A plant structure is a hierarchy of work areas. The work areas describe the locations existing in a plant in which manufacturing operations are performed. The hierarchy of the work areas can be very different from one plant to another.
Plant structure can represent the entire plant. Work Areas, sections.
Each work area can also include Tools, Machines, Resources & equipment.
Process operations used to manufacture a product are assigned to the work areas in which they are performed.