AIMSOC®

Production

An order sets out, for each unit, the steps it goes through and the components to be fitted into it.

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A pencil sketch of a person in safety glasses and a rolled-sleeve work shirt leaning over a workbench, holding a small component in both hands above an open rectangular housing that stands on the bench. Above and behind the housing further components hang in the air (two flat cover plates, several screws, a connector block and an angle bracket), each joined to the place it belongs by a thin vertical line. The component in their hands glows blue, and the light falls on their hands and on the rim of the housing. A second workbench, a trolley carrying crates and the roof frame of the hall are drawn faintly behind them.

Overview

The Production module takes AIMSOC® to the workbench. A production order sets the plan each unit passes through and accompanies the work at the workstation. For each unit, AIMSOC® then records who built it and from which components.

Features

  • A screenshot of the steps of a work plan, one per row. The columns are position, activity and status. Four rows run from 001 to 004 (tacking, welding, visual inspection and blasting), each with its own number printed beneath the name. The first carries a green mark reading completed, the other three an amber one reading new, and each of those three ends in a plus button.

    Define how a unit gets built

    The plan sets out which steps have to be carried out on a unit, and in which order they follow one another.

  • A screenshot of the positions of a bill of materials, one per row. The columns are position, asset type and status. Three rows run from 001 to 003 (head unit, instrument panel and centre console), each with a short code beneath the name. The first two are marked green, one of one fitted; the third amber, none of one. The second row is opened, and the strip beneath it holds the component assigned to that position: the date and time it was assigned, the serial number 52344, no lot, and the person who assigned it.

    Record components

    The bill of materials states which kinds of component are fitted into a unit.

  • A screenshot of two panels, each with a plus button in its corner. The upper one is headed Verriegelung, the interlock, with the columns position, reference, activity and restrict completion by the same person; its single row, position 002, names a welding step and carries a green check in that last column. The lower one is headed Vorgangsbedingungen, the step conditions, with the columns applies to, condition, revision and version; its single row carries two marks, start and complete, against the condition VB-1 in version 2. Each row ends in an edit and a delete icon.

    Set the conditions for a step

    Who may carry out a step depends on the qualifications it requires. The four-eyes rule can be required in addition.

  • A screenshot of a work instruction as the worker sees it, headed AX 1 with two of three beneath it. Three wide buttons run across the top: previous step, stop instructions, next step. Below them a pencil sketch shows an open rectangular housing seen from above at an angle, with a flat cover plate floating over it. The plate glows blue, thin dashed lines drop from its corners to the place it belongs, and a curved arrow points down into the housing.

    Guide the worker through a step

    Each step can be given an illustrated work instruction. The worker pages through it while working.

A closer look

  • A screenshot of the production order list, German interface: four orders, each with a reference, a name, a creation date, the asset type to be built, a quantity and a status such as new or in progress.
    An order sets out what is built and how many units. The overview shows every order and its progress.
  • A screenshot of one unit's page, German interface, on the work plan tab. One step, the rudder assembly, is in progress, with its start and its stop each listed by time, person and workplace.
    Every step of the plan records when it was started and stopped, by whom and at which workplace.
  • A screenshot of the same unit's bill of materials tab, German interface. Nine positions list kinds of component such as struts, screws, nuts and plates; two are marked as fitted. The first is opened to show when it was assigned, its batch and who assigned it.
    For every position on the bill of materials, the record shows which component went in, from which batch, and who fitted it.
  • A screenshot of a step condition named ISO Compliance & Welding, German interface. It requires two qualifications, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and Certified Welder, and its events list shows when it was created.
    A step condition lists the qualifications a person must hold before they may carry out the step.
  • A screenshot of the shop-floor terminal, German interface, showing the menu for one rudder unit: its order reference, product type and identifier, and two large square codes, one to check out and one for the rudder assembly step. A bar along the bottom counts the time.
    Once a unit is checked in, the terminal offers the steps that can be carried out at this workplace.
  • A screenshot of the terminal's component assignment screen, German interface, for the rudder assembly step in the right-hand zone. Three open positions (a green plate, a red screw and a grey nut) are each marked with an orange warning sign.
    The terminal lists only the components the running step needs, in the zone being worked on.
  • The same terminal screen after one scan. The green plate has moved to the bottom, framed in green with a check mark and the identifier of the component that was fitted; the screw and the nut are still open.
    Each scanned component is recorded against its position on this unit, with the identifier that was read.

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