The Plant Simulation Shop provides anapplication object library that you can useto model, simulate, visualize and optimize aproduction system on an object orientedbasis. By modeling the workshop principlesof your production system, you define howproduction orders are forwarded throughproduction and how you can control thematerial flow of your production system toimprove its daily performance.

Two kinds of users are able to take advantage of Plant Simulation Shop.• Engineers can leverage Plant Simulation Shop’s material requirements planning capabilities to create

a production plan that is used to schedule customer orders.• Your preparation staff and managing clerks can use Plant Simulation Shop to optimize the

production plan on a daily operational basis.

Establishing a production planPlant Simulation Shop’s material requirements planning capabilities enable you to break down the billof materials and establish production lots for individual components and products. These capabilitiesallow you to create a forecast of assumed demand that, in turn, will become the basis for yoursystem’s production plan.

At this point, you can set up customer orders against the production plan. If real world conditionsarise where actual customer orders exceed your plan orders, you can use Plant Simulation Shop tostart your rush orders.

Plant Simulation Shop enables you to establish a forecast table where you can organize your productsinto appropriate product groups that you manage and monitor. These product groups are explodedinto a material requirements plan.

You can manage your production orders with respect to their lot size by generating productionorders from the material requirements plan. Stock from production orders that are too big will beoffset against later plan orders. There will be no production orders during the planning phase for lot

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BenefitsImprove production system metrics, asvalidated by experiences of real-worldUGS clients:

•Electronics industry projectshowed 23 percent throughputimprovement

•Truck industry project reduced itstime for scheduling metrics (whichincluded complex scheduling) from40 hours to 4 hours

•Major OEM project realized 13percent throughput reduction

•Tier 1 automotive supplierreduced setup time by more than60 percent

•Large diesel engine manufacturersaved $70K per year from work inprocess improvements and spacereductions

•Client’s bottlenecked shop floorincreased machine capacity by10 percent

Facilitate other production systemimprovements, including the ability to:

•Produce more parts in less time

•Balance machine utilization better

•Reduce/eliminate overtime work

•Reduce wait times and therebyreduce the asset in production

•Shorten delivery times and reducedelivery delays

•React to fast changing marketdemands

SummaryTecnomatix™ software’s Plant Simulation Shop enables you to model, simulate, visualize and optimize the flow of customer ordersthrough a shop-floor production system. Its capabilities can be used by engineers to plan your production system and by yourpreparation staff and managing clerks to optimize the production plan for daily operation. Users can take advantage of Plant SimulationShop’s object-oriented modeling and modular design techniques to accelerate the creation of your production plan and to improve itsperformance in terms of throughput, order scheduling, machine utilization, space utilization and predictability.

sizes managed in accordancewith the Kanban rule. Instead,these lots will be handledthrough simulation runs.

You can use Plant SimulationShop for scheduling purposes bydisplaying single plant orders ineasy to understand Ganttcharts. Plant Simulation Shopuses the rules of productioncontrol to manage multipleorders that start at the sametime and to decide which orderstarts first. You can use thesecontrols to process the productorder list in sequence, establishindividual priorities manually,consider the due dates ofindividual orders, or userandomized priorities.

Plant Simulation Shop’s supportfor the rules of productioncontrol and process sequencingenable you to account for avariety of factors such as first suitable, longest/shortest waiting time, longest/shortest operation time,longest/shortest completion time and time of delivery – along with other order-related variables.

In addition, you can use Plant Simulation Shop to analyze and calculate production and product costs.When you use Plant Simulation Shop to apply cost calculations to a specific cost center, you define thecost per hour and price for an external product in the system’s master data table.

Optimizing your production planOnce you understand the particulars that apply to a given customer order, you can use Plant SimulationShop to create a production plan, whose feasibility you can subsequently check and validate from a real-world perspective.

During this optimization process, you can use Plant Simulation Shop to optimize your productionplanning and control parameters. More specifically, you can:• Supplement your existing PPS (enterprise resource planning/manufacturing resource planning)

systems to optimize their system parameters• Perform realistic feasibility checks on your production plan• Evaluate diverse business and manufacturing scenarios• Precisely plan given task profiles by utilizing current factory-specific operational data

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Improve production planning by:

•Reducing time required to createthe production plan

•Optimizing MRP/ERP (PPS) systemparameters

•Optimizing the productionsequence

Flexibly optimize the production plan by:

•Examining the product plan andassessing various operationalscenarios

•Evaluating well balanced shiftmodels on the basis of resourceand work utilization

•Evaluating different productionsequences in terms of theirthroughput per hour and outputper day

FeaturesInteractive graphical interface thatfacilitates the fast display of materialand job flow through the use ofpredefined objects, such as:

•Planning control stations (masterrequirements planning and orderplanning)

•Production control

•Processing stations

•Purchase manager (provider, unitcost prices, delivery times)

•Warehouse manager (storages,stock)

Integrated material requirementsplanning that displays delayed orders

Integrated objects for evaluatingstorage fill levels

Simulation run displays that includeresource utilization, product plans, costsand machine occupations presented indialog boxes, tables and Gantt charts

System requirementsIn order to use Plant SimulationShop, you must have a license forPlant Simulation Professional, PlantSimulation Standard or PlantSimulation Application.

The Plant Simulation Runtimelicense already contains PlantSimulation Shop for usage.

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