VisualFactory.Net

1. Companies invest in many EDM/ ERP computer tools and internal processes that govern large numbers of product variations that consume too much time and effort.

1.1. Volvo's Asheville plant was among the earliest adopters of VisualFactory.net.

1.2. NoMuda's NA Manager Operations shares the feeling about the pace of your assembly operations is driven by the memory of your assembly line workforce.

2. Where the manufacturing process cannot cope with the extra burden of more product variations, it is easy to miss opportunities to satisfy particular market segments.

2.1. The VisualFactory.net starts with a Visual Order.

2.1.1. It links directly across to the set of instructions on hoow to assemble or install each item.

2.1.2. Each workstation has a Step Chart to illustrate the standard assembly sequence for completing each task.

2.1.3. It helps you bring in a replacement so quickly that production hardly misses a beat.

3. One of the key issues with the introduction of any kind of lean initiative is almost always a restistance to the change.

3.1. It is easy for the factory team to switch to VisualFactory.Net.

4. Tangilbe Savings

4.1. New Employee training.

4.2. Spending far less time having to produce drawings.

4.3. Reducing rework time with right-first-time.

4.4. Reducing warranty costs.

4.5. Lower inspection costs.

5. Technical Benefits

5.1. It will be integrated with existing ERP or EDM systems.

5.2. It can be incorporated into a corporated intranet.

5.3. The company shares one synchronised up-to-date view.

5.4. It makes far easier to manage the design change process.

5.5. Component design changes can be phased in, with the in-service definition.

5.6. The symbols are universal.

6. Our brains are far better remembering shapes and colors than anything else.

6.1. One UK company believes this may be the key to helping industry deal with all those numbers.

6.2. VisualFactory.net combines the "left brain" engineering part, option and drawing data with "right part" visual clues to link the logic from order to product.

6.2.1. It helps to overcome. Factory workers often complain that they find it very hard to translate the documentation into physical actions.

6.2.2. Repetition usually comes to the workers' rescue.