Overview

Work Instructions Planning enables planners to add work instructions to operations and to specify the information that should be both provided and collected using a manufacturing execution systems (MES).

The Work Instructions Planning User's Guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Work Instruction Planning product.

Work Instructions Planning in a Nutshell

This product allows users to create work instructions and work instruction catalogs. These instructions can be added to operations defined in the Assembly Experience or Manufacturing Systems Definition workbench.

The work instructions can contain text only or users can attach documents such as pdfs, Microsoft Office documents, or a wide variety image files. The instructions are associated with time-based operations such as loading or fastening. You can plan instructions that simply appear on an MES screen that are interactive (e.g., collect data or signoffs).

You can preview the work instructions you create, based on XSLT templates, to check the instructions' appearance. You can also create saveable HTML versions of your instructions, which can be converted to printable (PDF) files.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide, which describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches. Because Work Instructions Planning relies on the catalog function, please also read Catalog User's Guide.

To understand how to use basic system creation tools and to familiarize yourself with the PPR context, you may also like to read:


  • Assembly Experience User's Guide,
  • Manufacturing Systems Definition User's Guide.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands and the dialog boxes for each kind of work instruction, will also certainly prove useful.