ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT
QMUZIK ERP FACILITATES AND STREAMLINES CONTROL OF THE
ENGINEERING DATABASE, SPANNING THE TOTAL LIFE CYCLE
OF PARTS AND PRODUCTS AND INCORPORATES ITEM
IDENTIFICATION, CONFIGURATION STATUS ACCOUNTING,
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AND CHANGE CONTROL THAT IS
HIGHLY SCALEABLE PER PRODUCT LINE, PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
AND SALES CONTRACT.
The ERP system provides comprehensive data to define the
item master, bills of material and operation tasks (routings)
with related metadata. Bills of material can be created for
any item type and can include Engineering bills (including
phantom parts, interplant parts and subcontracted parts),
Planning/forecast bills, Modular bills, Maintenance kits,
Retrofit/upgrade kits and many more.
The model also provides features to map the Bill of material
component items to the related manufacturing operations
and/or maintenance and repair operations, which thus
integrates the manufacturing and repair logic within a single
engineering definition for the product. This enhances data
integrity and speeds-up the rollout of new product designs.
Manufacturing, maintenance and repair tasks can also be
linked to the skills, resources (documentation, tools,
machines, sundry consumables and others) and facilities
required to execute the manufacturing/maintenance
operations.
Extensive provision is made for standardization and for
application sensitive part substitution rules and preferences.
Unit of measure conversions are also fully interfaced in supply
chain activities to cater for procurement and sales in
multiple alternate units of measure.
Commodity-specific characteristics can also be linked to
any item to further describe the item and its attributes and
the model allows for the linking of electronic images to any
item or data key (documents, pictures, AVI files, drawings,
specifications, procedures etc.).
The model fully caters for identifying shelf life and working life
limitations for items and once stock was replenished, these
limitations are adhered to when supply chain activities are
executed.
The seamless interface of engineering data with the rest of
the manufacturing enterprise allows a single source of
information that is visible at all levels in the downstream
processes, thus accelerating communication, analysis,
approval and implementation of Engineering changes and
releases. The real-time navigation tools provide for critical
path lead-time analysis and cater for past, present and
future views of the product base line. It also allows for
comparison of bills of material.
The functionality further extends to the point where Contractspecific Bills of Material can be created, associated with
contract specific part substitution rules and contract
requirements for quality, documentation, test pieces,
customer furnished items, packaging, preservation and
marking.
This further extends to contract specific routings and where
contract or project specific requirements were listed, these
requirements are exposed wherever a supply chain activity
relates to the relevant contract or project.
Qmuzik Engineering Data Management is the bridge that
connects design engineering to the rest of the
manufacturing enterprise and a number of special features
are provided:
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Single data source – Manufacturing, Purchasing, Logistical
support and Process design data are mapped into the single
Engineering baseline.
Highly flexible navigation options provide a variety of views
of the Bill of Materials. These include multilevel tree structures,
summarized views, comparisons, cost roll-ups and lead-time
analysis as well as “where-used” inquiries based on
effectiveness dates or end-item serial number effectiveness.
Downstream business processes dynamically interprets the
BOM depending on the activity that is launched in the
Supply chain. Data also incorporates legal requirements for
Dangerous goods regulation items, Controlled defense items
and any other requirements where permits or licenses are
required for a specific supply chain activity.
Extensive provision is made to define hazard classifications
for dangerous goods (including storage compatibility rules
and storage licenses) and to manage inventory for such
items.
Supply chain concessions and deviations are also
comprehensively embedded in the engineering and quality
control processes.
Engineering Release Management - a highly flexible
engineering release and change control process that
accelerates communication, approval and distribution of
engineering releases and changes. This extends to
embedded logic regarding the financial disposition of items
in various stages of the product life cycle.
The engineering data is incorporated into downstream ERP
processes to direct workflow in material planning,
purchasing, production operations, inventory management
and quality control, as well as customer service.
Approval and implementation of engineering changes have
embedded workflow and fully interfaces with optional
document management, document distribution and revision
control.
Enhanced features are also provided to place the stock
Replenishment of specific parts on hold due to failures,
pending engineering changes, new model releases or
incomplete design elements, data packs or tooling. This
assists in minimizing obsolescence, scrap, rework – and
retrofit cost.
Document Management – A comprehensive document
management system is provided which allows for
identification of control of all documents in the organization.
These may be in original, hard copy or electronic format and
may include your own documents and those provided by
your trading partners.
Documents
may
include
engineering
drawings,
specifications, procedures, manuals, marking and packing
instructions, or any other documentation or visual aids to be
linked to the engineering baseline to support the engineering
process and change control and to ensure goods are
manufactured and supplied as per specification. Included is
the management of the document life cycle, change
control, document distribution, the electronic notifications,
confirmation of document receipts and returns and
comprehensive change – and distribution history.
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Project Management - the Engineering model fully interfaces
with the system’s Project Management model to plan,
budget, and control and authorize expenses for engineering
development and to enforce time and cost constraints for
activities in the work break down structure (WBS). The project
WBS can also be mapped into the engineering hardware
structure, thus enabling MRP to suggest the applicable
element in the project WBS when planned replenishments
are created for purchasing and manufacturing activities at
all levels in the BOM.
Single integrated routing - a Single integrated routing
definition for both "manufacturing" and "maintenance"
scenarios are provided and the mapping of these operations
into the bill of material items embeds the manufacturing
process into the engineering design.
Online, Real-time Visibility – full integration with downstream
ERP processes provides timely, online visibility of up-to-date
engineering data.
Comprehensive functionality is included for routing steps
performed externally by Suppliers.
The tools provided for comparison of bills of material as well
as the simulation capabilities of MRP can also be applied for
“what-if” scenarios regarding engineering changes and to
test feasibility and timing of suggested changes and to
analyse and minimise the potential cost of scrap,
obsolescence, modification and/or retrofits.
Customer Contract specific baselines – As an alternative to
implementing engineering changes effective from specified
dates, functionality is s provided to implement engineering
changes from a specified configuration end-item serial
number, thus eliminating many of the factors that
traditionally
interfere
with
correctly
timing
the
implementation and thus minimising obso-lescence.
Back flushing rules for labour report back and post deduction
of inventory balances from predefined WIP-stores and flow
racks are fully integrated with the product design and the
manufacturing steps defined in the routing.
Serial Number tracking, Installed Positions and Audit trail –
multiple, excellent serial and lot number control options are
provided, fully interfaced with build history and visibility of
installed positions of serial numbers as per drawing
annotations and references.
Includes the ability to save a snapshot of the engineering
base line at time of order launching/release, for comparison
to the eventual as-built configuration of the product.
This eventually also extends to the as-maintained
structure of the equipment after shipping, with
comprehensive features to record equipment history,
failures, maintenance events and upgrades.
Spare parts (LRU’s) identification and Maintenance/repair
requirements are much enhanced since the exact
configuration and build history of every end-item becomes
visible.
The interface with Customer service and contract
management further allows for contract specific part
substitution rules and for the exposure of contract specific
requirements for quality, packing, marking, documentation
and others.
Qmuzik Technologies (Pty) Ltd l Trentbridge Office Park l
c/o Von Willich Ave & Leonie St l Centurion l
Tel: 012 640 3500 l Fax: 012 640 3511 l info@qmuzik.com l www.qmuzik.com
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