Fabrication & Composite Manufacturing - Engineering

Your Situation

You are reviewing production data of defective shipsets. All production parameters and process conditions have usual variations from batch to batch, but remain well within tolerances; therefore no statistical analysis, histogram or correlations detects any trend.

Intercim's answer

With a typical rework rate of 25%, composite and metal-bonding manufacturers are anxious to improve first-time quality and cycle times

Users of the Pertinence Suite Process Rules Discovery can determine why certain raw material characteristics, external conditions, tools and process conditions combined in a certain way result in 100% defects and why other combinations result in 100% first-time quality all the time.

Using Process Rules Discovery, manufacturing engineers and M&P specialists can extract from production history, risk patterns that resulted in good and poor quality composites. No statistics, no physics: just the most powerful, yet easy to understand risk prediction system ever utilized in complex manufacturing such as composite, metal-bonding, super-plastic forming, chemical milling and foundry.

These complex production technologies are known to be very sensitive, for example, to raw materials, storage time, environmental conditions and cure profile. Process Rules Discovery is the only available solution help engineers answer:

• How can I improve our production without having to change tolerances?
• All production parameters are inside tolerances. So why do we have defects?
• Are there any recurrent patterns along the value chain explaining why sometimes we get defects and sometimes we don't?
• How can I simulate the real impact of some virtual process changes?
• Can I dramatically reduce our data collection effort while keeping the best level of predictability?
• How do I re-optimize some best practices coming from one product line to another site?

From raw materials acceptance to non-destructive inspection, manufacturing engineers using the Pertinence Suite transform the complexity of 21st century.

Your situation

Manufacturing Engineering has just sent a design for a fairly complex component. Before you assign materials or write detailed instructions, you do a little research to learn if any similar plans exist. The library indeed contains a plan, produced months ago, for nearly the exact component. You make a few modifications to a plan that entails 76 operations and hundreds of steps; and the new plan is complete.

Intercim's answer

Easy, flexible, reusable. Whether the plan is simple or complex, Pertinence Suite Process Planning allows planners to complete their work in less time and with less effort. Because the Suite retains all process plans and orders, standard or similar operations can be retrieved from libraries of existing work, then modified to produce new plans. Reusable, pre-defined objects including operations, steps, electronic signatures, tools and data collection means all planning doesn't have to 'start from scratch'.