from the NC planning up to the optimized manufacturing control

The efficiency of the NC planning and manufacturing execution is to a decisive extent carried by an efficient production data organisation. EXAPTpdo offers you for this fast, relevant, on-time availability of required manufacturing facilities, process requirements, manufacturing documents and order references. The matched assignment of information and material cycles with EXAPTpdo creates the necessary preconditions for economic manufacturing sequences and especially for optimal tool logistics. EXAPTpdo leads you to overview and vistas for fast accesses without long-drawn-out searching, for throughput acceleration, stock optimization and forsighted acting in the manufacturing.

The database-supported EXAPTpdo system can firstly be used effectively as basic level in the NC programming environment to get fast access to all fundamental input and result information about tools, machines, process conditions, NC programs, tooling conditions, machining times and others. Furthermore EXAPTpdo supplementary modules offer the demand-oriented stepwise upgrading for the formation of an optimal workflow from the NC planning  via the storage of manufacturing facilities, -presettings, -recycling, the set-up optimization, purchase of manufacturing facilities, order-specific provision as well as the organisation of documents for the manufacturing planning and execution. The possible extension levels refer to the areas:

• Manufacturing facilities organisation, internal tool management
• Cycle organisation for manufacturing facilities logistics in the shopfloor
• Workflow optimization also in interaction with ERP- and shopfloor systems
• Manufacturing sequence organisation, MPM “Manufacturing Process Management”,  MES “ Manufacturing Execution System”     
• Process-related determination of manufacturing times (th, tn, te, tr, ta) for the time management 

Support to the fast production throughput is offered with efficient interoperability in the CAD/CAM and ERP area added with the possibility to adapt to specific company-oriented requirements. Also order-oriented workflows can be profitably configured with EXAPTpdo. The EXAPT DNC system is available for the fast shopfloor communication with the extended possibility for the interaction of all integrated workflow participants.