Proplanner Software

Proplanner is a leader in process engineering and management software for discrete manufacturers. These applications automate, streamline and integrate engineering activities for industrial and manufacturing engineers who design and plan production systems for new and modified products. Built around the techniques of Lean Manufacturing and Total Quality Improvement and deployed via the Internet, Proplanner solutions reduce the time required to take newly designed products and launch them into manufacturing with better product quality and fewer product launch mistakes.

Proplanner is a set of manufacturing process engineering tools based on a database that helps engineers create and manage process information in order to improve their manufacturing operations. Proplanner’s integrated set of applications include: Time Estimation, Line Balancing, Work Instructions, Ergonomics Assessments, FMEA Quality Documents, value stream maps and process charting and reporting.

Proplanner Line Balance
Proplanner offers a standalone line balancing tool, which offers an easy to use spreadsheet interface to manipulate data. This solution supports regular Windows functionalities, intuitive and sophisticated charting, flexible & quick line balancing techniques, and reporting that calculates utilization and work assignments that can be used as Work Instructions.

This tool is also integrated with Work Place Planner which allows users to conduct analyses of work within a station.

Workplace Planner
Working within AutoCAD, the Workplace Planner automatically generates walk-path diagrams and calculates worker walk times, lean value-added percentages, travel distances, and ergonomic safety assessments. Walk-path diagrams and animation help visualize the process directly on the layout in AutoCAD.

Flow Path Calculator
The Flow Path Calculator works with AutoCAD to automatically generates material flow diagrams and calculate material handling travel distances, time and cost. With variable-width flow lines color-coded by product, part or material handling method, users quickly see how layouts should be arranged and where excessive material handling should be eliminated from the manufacturing process.

Layout Planner
Layout Planner provides industrial, manufacturing and layout engineers with a quick, objective layout design tool. Based on Richard Muther’s Systemic Layout Planning (SLP) techniques, Layout Planner diagrams and scores alternative designs using relationships between activities as the key measure of layout efficiency.

Materials Handling Database
Proplanner’s Materials Handling Database is the master repository for all of a company’s internal logistics and materials handling information. The database stores, manages and analyzes all part logistics information from the trailer in the receiving dock to the assembly locations on the plant floor.