With Shop Floor Connect, users get a Web interface for accessing all the necessary work package elements to build parts. They can do this via any Web-browser-enabled device including tablets or PCs on the shop floor, he said. “What this does is give you a simple interface that gives you the tool list, setup sheets, some pictures or images, a finished part model, and a CNC file [NC code],” Paradise explained. “It’s basically like an electronic traveler, the paper documents that are so popular on shop floors, accessible by any plant-floor PC or hand-held devices like iPads or other tablets.”
Closing the Loop Until recently, PLM systems lacked a critical link in con- necting enterprise systems to the shop floor. “If you look at the PLM vision in total, one of the pieces that’s missing in general is a continuous loop into the shop floor for opera- tions management, manufacturing execution systems [MES], quality, data collection, and further into analytics,” said John
Improved tools in Delmia Robotics Spot Welding (RSW) help programmers automatically generate robot tasks including spot welding operations.
Todd, business development sales director, for the Delmia brand (Auburn Hills, MI) owned by Dassault Systèmes (Velizy- Villacoublay, France). Last year, Dassault acquired a key component of the puzzle with its purchase of MES developer Intercim (St. Paul, MN),
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