Lean Manufacturing Process: Intercim Velocity Shipped to Fortune 100 Aerospace and Defense ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... of a state-of-the-art process execution and control solution for regulated industries requiring mission critical and lean-manufacturing process compliance ...

Intercim develops and applies complete-off-the-shelf (COTS) processes
execution software to improve the productivity of manufacturing and its
associated processes for medium and large enterprises. Customers use the
Intercim suite to meet regulatory compliance through procedural enforcement,
production visibility, quality management, business systems collaboration, and
manufacturing and production intelligence. Intercim transcends the
classification of manufacturing execution systems (MES) provider to encompass
advanced process management for discrete manufacturers. Intercim sells an
enterprise solution that is 100% configurable for managing and enforcing
processes, ensuring quality management and data collection accuracy, and gives
a company's stakeholders the information and analytical tools they need to
make decisions that turn into profits.

FACTORYnet Supports and Facilitates Lean Manufacturing: Intercim’s manufacturing execution system, FACTORYnet, is a powerful information management and control system that supports and facilitates almost all aspects of lean manufacturing. More specific information on how it does this is provided in the following paragraphs.

For common component parts, Kanban can be an effective way to control production. FACTORYnet supports this by providing the capability for electronic Kanban. Electronic Kanban provides on-line, real-time visibility into the production of Kanban controlled parts. For those situations where machines are utilized to produce multiple different Kanban controlled parts or a combination of Kanban controlled parts and order controlled parts, electronic Kanban facilitates the finite scheduling of the work on those machines in order to ensure overall manufacturing synchronization and optimization.

One of the goals of lean manufacturing is better support for mass customization of products. FACTORYnet facilitates this by making it feasible to use small lot sizes, or even orders of quantity one, and single piece flow. This is accomplished through the use of an electronic shop order that consolidates all of the needed information for the order and provides immediate and easy access to the information. By supporting small lot sizes and single piece flow, FACTORYnet facilitates both cycle time reduction and support for mass customization of product.