Super Efficient – Configure to Order Dynamic Electronic Build and Process Instructions
Is quality being impacted by ever increasing product variance?
Improve quality, streamline administration, ensuring your process documentation is always accurate.
Managing product variance is a significant challenge for manufacturers, particularly in sectors where electronic work instructions are essential. Each new product variant requires precise adjustments to these work instructions, which can be both complex and time-consuming. The need for accuracy is paramount, as even minor discrepancies can lead to production errors, increased waste, and potential safety hazards.
As manufacturers continuously innovate and respond to market demands, the frequency of product variations escalates. This volatility places an escalating burden on teams tasked with updating electronic work instructions, often resulting in longer lead times and decreased operational efficiency. The process can become a bottleneck in production, where engineers and operators must ensure that everyone is following the most current instructions while managing multiple versions.
Furthermore, the reliance on paper-based systems or outdated software tools complicates the situation, making it difficult to track changes and communicate effectively across teams. As a result, manufacturers may face Quality Assurance challenges and regulatory compliance issues, ultimately impacting their competitiveness. Addressing these hurdles requires streamlined processes and technology solutions that facilitate the efficient management of product variance, ensuring that work instructions remain accurate, current, and easily accessible throughout the manufacturing process.
ProcessIQ’s Variant Configuration module allows customers who have commonality in their product build and assembly processes, to maintain ultimately a single work instruction, that contains multiple final product configurations. This simplifies the maintenance of work instructions, by allowing common elements of a product’s process configuration to be re-used, without the need to duplicate and allow other Work Instruction operations and steps to be filtered based upon configuration.
This is achieved by allowing a set of options (characteristics) to be assigned to a Product (Variant Product) in AssemblyX, the characteristics can then be assigned to operations and steps within the product’s work instruction and filtered when the work instruction is consumed.
When the Variant Product or associated Product Variants are consumed on the shopfloor, using the library view or a Production Order in DMES, the resultant work instruction shows the filtered operations and steps.
Characteristics can be assigned to all the step item types, i.e. Media, Health & Safety, Tools, Actions, Documents, Non-BOM Articles, Bills of Material Parts and Data Capture Inputs
Why Manufacturing Process Intelligence Matters
Improve quality
Providing accurate electronic work instructions removes ambiguity for your operators.
Reduce administration
Streamline the management of 100's or 1000's of product variances using our unique characteristic configurator.
Enhanced Quality Assurance & Compliance
Improve product quality with configurable quality control, error-proofing, and compliance, reducing defects and meeting industry standards.
Streamline operations using ERP to drive your electronic work procedures
Connect your work and production orders to drive the variance configuration of your electronic work instructions.
Digital traceability
Produce calibrated digital quality records that match your variance configuration for the product being produced.
Simplify the configuration management of your electronic work instructions
ProcessIQ provides tools to simplify the administration of managing product variance and characteristics.
Recent Projects
Explore successful customer projects to see how we help manufacturers.
Georg Fischer
Georg Fischer Signet eases their struggle to manage
ProPhotonix
ProPhotonix saves significant administrative time by implementing ProcessIQ
Stegia
Stegia introduces efficient scalable manufacturing with ProcessIQ. Faced