Automated rules-driven process planning

Citation

(2003), "Automated rules-driven process planning", Circuit World, Vol. 29 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.2003.21729bad.003

Automated rules-driven process planning

Automated rules-driven process planning

Keywords: Frontline

InPlan is the new automated process planning system that integrates with Frontline’s existing industry-leading products to complete the InGineering pre-production solution. InPlan’s ability to capture and control all electronic customer and manufacturing specifications is a critical function for all PCB shops. Its rules-driven engine enables engineers to dynamically generate bill of materials (BOMs), production traveler and CAM work instructions with inbuilt revision control management, on a site-by-site basis.

InMind is based on an industry standards relational database, and serves all parts of the manufacturing process by holding all engineering data (customer and manufacturing specifications, tools, etc.) in a central repository. InMind seamlessly handles every aspect of the front-end, with links to CAM and the shop floor, and supports archiving, revision control, hold/release management and multi-user access.

Companies can implement any of the client/ server applications within InGineering on a modular basis or full-system basis, depending on manufacturing site needs. InPlan is available on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux, Solaris 2.7 and HP-UX 11.