Production Charting Features and Functions
Production charting provides a foundation to visually evaluate production processes. Production charts, sometimes known as "spaghetti diagrams," are frequently used to identify potential process improvements.
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- Import or access production information in conceptual process plans
- Develop process activity maps
- Develop product structure maps
- Identify relationship of production processes on charts to each other and to components
- Support predecessors, successors, and parallel processes
- Identify relationship of materials on charts
- Support creation of value stream maps for lean manufacturing initiatives
- Visualize production and material flow--operator walkpath flow
- Visualize production and material flow--product flow in plant
- Visualize manufacturing processes on Gantt charts
- Optionally show activities on process charts
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Production Process Planning Features and Functions
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