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Keeping production lines balanced and preventing bottlenecks, while utilizing resources well, is a complicated task. Much more so when different product variants are manufactured on a single line. An innovative digital manufacturing solution will help you achieve your manufacturing process management objectives more efficiently. Read more about Siemens award winning UX with Easy Plan, and the innovators who are behind it.

Manufacturing process management software team of innovators.

Every year Siemens honors outstanding researchers and developers as Inventors of the Year in five categories: Newcomers, Open Innovation, Outstanding Invention, Lifetime Achievement and Design and User Experience. Their innovations have significantly contributed to the company’s success while also benefiting society. The latest winners for Design and User Experience are our own Noga Bar-On, Varda Senerman, and Hadar Hillel. They invented a visual user interface that helps Industrial Engineers using Easy Plan identify bottlenecks in a mixed production line, making the line balancing task easier and quicker.

For Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers, mixed production lines mean that line balancing becomes a very complicated challenge. This is because different product variants require different operations to be done on them in the different stations. However, the workload in each station should still be as close as possible to the takt time for every variant. This is especially important for the more common variants in the production mix. Therefore, variant probability should also be considered. A bubble chart allows visualizing two dimensions of the variants – workload and probability – on a single axis per station. This makes it extremely easy to find the issues that are most important to handle.

Noga Bar-On, Senior UX Expert at Siemens Digital Industries Software

Manufacturing Process Management with Easy Plan

Easy Plan supports the Digital Twin of Production with a task-oriented web solution for manufacturing process management and planning, and a best-in-class user experience, designed to help you increase operational efficiency. With Easy Plan, you can create and manage your manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM), and reconcile your MBOM with your engineering BOM (EBOM). You can standardize and re-use assembly processes across multiple plants, author electronic work instructions to be shared with shop floor operators, perform detailed time analysis, balance production lines, and much more.

As shown in the video below, and as noted in the recent blog authored by Noga Bar-On, Easy Plan provides an intuitive user experience for manufacturing planning.

Easy Plan uses award-winning bubble visual technology with line balancing capabilities to help users easily identify bottlenecks and under utilization in a mixed production line.

Learn More About Manufacturing Process Management with Easy Plan

Visit siemens.com/easyplan to learn more about task-based solutions for Manufacturing Process Planning

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See a demonstration of Manufacturing Process Planning with Easy Plan 6.0

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