SIM*plicity Systems
Product Engineering
- SIM*plicity logic eliminates 90% of Bill of Materials!
- All similar products can use the same parametric (Dynamic) bill of material. If you make kitchen cabinets, one bill would suffice for all wall cabinets - regardless of the size, number of doors or door style.
- If you need to change a construction detail such as you only do it once - not on hundreds of bills.
- Product identification and options will change bill of material routing, if necessary. For upholstered products SIM*plicity knows which products and fabrics can't be cut be cut on an automated cutter and assigns them for manual cutting.
- Panel Optimization.
- Depending on the necessary quantity of parts required SIM*plicity chooses the most economical panel to use.
- Automatically create AutoCAD product drawings.
- SIM*plicity will define blocks, and scale and orient them in AutoCAD..
- Dynamic Bill of Material generator.
- At order entry a unique bill of material, incorporating only the options and features selected ics created for each product. This eliminates confusion in travelers and othe factory documents.
- Reality checks (safety, weight, panel size, etc.)
- Logic prevents you from stretching or shrinking parts beyond safe limits or the availability of materials.
- You can specify material changes or increased thickness for oversize panels.
- If size exceeds a machines capability alternative routings will be automatically selected.
- Mix and match static and parametric bills.
- Static bills can be used for unique parts and these also have the option and feature controls of SIM*plicity's dynamic bills.
- Automatically calculate machine speeds and output.
- Operation times are calculated using machine speed formulas that are a function of the parts dimensions.
- Use both English and Metric Measurements.
- A typical situation is where English measurements are used in dealing with customers and suplliers while the shop is exclusively metric. SIM*plicity automatically converts measurements (with the necessary degree of rounding) as needed.
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Features that help your company Examples from SIM*plicity Discussion and Features Customer Orders
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Customer Details: shipping information, history, etc. The utmost in options and feature controls. Automatic pricing with more than 400 variables (size, color, add-on's etc.) Simple to set-up and easy to use. More than an "Order Configurator": these variables interact with dynamic (parametric) bills of materials to create complete manufacturing documentation.
Item Details Options to enter and display product information.
Order Entry Tools Because we automatically transfer all pricing variables and "engineering limits" to Order Entry, SIM*plicity eliminates the typical delay for orders to first go to Engineering and Pricing prior to Order Entry.
Batch Order Entry Input Customer Order details directly from Excel.
Order-Project Costing Display actual costs during Order Entry or during "material takeoff" -Quotations.
Graphics display with real-time visibility of all in-process orders. Product Entry Instructions Guidance to the operator in entering complex items .
New Product Entry Add new customers and products on the fly.
Zip and Postal Code Tutorial Factors in entering address data for uniformity and to ensure automatic freight calculation
Sales Discounts and Commissions Information on entering discounts and sales commissions.
SPEED-UP Tips to increase order entry productivity.
Invoice Details - Setting Variables
Variables for printing (and exporting to accounting software) invoices Order Entry variables for display and printing
Deposits and Payments Record and display deposits and partial payments
MRP2/ERP Planning and Shop Floor Control Advance Plan
Customer and factory (internal) orders create inventory and labor demand for specific days. SIM*plicity schedules individual machines within each work station/cell and generates material requisitions.
Planners can control and balance workload at every machine. Production Planner/Scheduler Shifting production (date or workcenter) automatically updates all related processes. Graphics displays with drill-down" information effectively links Planning to Shop Floor Control. MRP2/ERP Tutorial
Workstation Control allows supervisors to fine tune schedules and report production.
Purchasing and Inventory Control Requisition/Purchasing
New orders automatically updates long-term material plans. Shop floor control module interacts with purchasing to automatically flag needs that won't be met and adjusts schedules accordingly.
Buy-out items are purchased as soon as customer order is processed - including automatic pricing of options and features.
Inventory Details Knowing the materials "on hand" and what they cost is not enough! SIM*plicity calculates the exact date needed, where it should be stored and details of its physical characteristics.
Vendor Information
Access complete contact information on vendors and their employees.
Purchasing Messages
Adding Standard and Text Messages to an individual item Requisition or to an entire Purchase Order
Tools to record and adjust physical invnetories.
Accounting and Cost Control
Know the true cost of every item that you build!
Automatically calculate the cost of "work -in-process" inventory.
Instantly estimate the complete cost of every Order and Quotation. Change an option or feature and the cost is automatically updated!
Please also read ABC Cost Control
Product Engineering Bill of Material Flow Chart Bills of Materials are the core of true manufacturing systems. They link together customer orders, manufacturing instructions with material and labor requirements.
Dynamic (parametric) Bills of Material are used for entire families of products eliminating the need at most companies for 90% of individual Bills of Material. However, Static (Conventional) Bills of Material are still valuable and our system incorporates them with a full range of Options and Features
Plan and Perform Project Takeoff Estimate and control complex projects. Sales Management
Sales by Customer and Product Line Cost of Goods Sold report for every order. Volume and margin reports for each sales rep.
For each customer select default discount programs, special product discounts and choose from multiple selling companies (OEM, etc.)
SUPPORT
Training, customization and 24/7 real-time support by the developers of this software. A commitment to excellence - today, tomorrow and for the past 30 years.