Manufacturing process management
Manufacturing process management (MPM) is a collection of technologies
and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured. MPM
differs from ERP/MRP which is used to plan the ordering of materials and
other resources, set manufacturing schedules, and compile cost data.[1]
A cornerstone of MPM is the central repository for the integration of all
these tools and activities aids in the exploration of
alternative production line scenarios; making assembly lines more
efficient with the aim of reduced lead time to product launch, shorter
product times and reduced work in progress (WIP) inventories as well as
allowing rapid response to product or product changes.
Production process planning
Manufacturing concept planning
Factory layout planning and analysis
work flow simulation.
walk-path assembly planning
plant design optimization
Mixed model line balancing.
Workloads on multiple stations.
Process simulation tools e.g. die press lines, manufacturing lines
Ergonomic simulation and assessment of production assembly tasks
Resource planning
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Numerical control CNC
Direct numerical control (DNC)
Tooling/equipment/fixtures development
Tooling and Robot work-cell setup and offline programming (OLP)
Generation of shop floor work instructions
Time and cost estimates
ABC – Manufacturing activity-based costing
Outline of industrial organization
Quality computer-aided quality assurance (CAQ)
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
Statistical process control (SPC)
Computer aided inspection with coordinate-measuring machine (CMM)
Tolerance stack-up analysis using PMI models.
Success measurements
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE),
Communication with other systems
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Manufacturing operations management (MOM)
Product data management (PDM)
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) real time process
monitoring and control
Human–machine interface (HMI) (or man-machine interface (MMI))
In civil engineering and project management, process management is the
management of "systematic series of activities directed towards causing
an end result such that one or more inputs will be acted upon to create
one or more outputs".[1]
Process management offers project organizations a means of applying the
same quality improvement and defect reduction techniques used in business
and manufacturing processes by taking a process view of project activity;
modeling discrete activities and high-level processes.[2
Distributed control system (DCS)
