Software
You can now get software tools that help your become better at process improvement. Your organization can purchase Proplanner software for assembly process planning, time standards, line balancing, and material flow and layout planning at a fraction of retail list prices. The software comes with tutorials, web-based training for your teaching assistants and instructional material that you can incorporate into your continuous process improvement coursework.
These four programs are: Assembly Planner, ProBalance, Workplace Planner, and the Flow Planner.
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Assembly Planner is a complete process planning database so you can define and manage how products are manufactured. The suite incorporates process sequence, time and resource requirement information into one easy to manage manufacturing BOM. |
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ProBalance is a process balancing program that can be used for automatic line balancing or for helping you arrange work among people or stations. This program is great for leveling the total work time for each operator so that you eliminate areas where work builds up. |
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The Workplace Planner is a program that diagrams processes over a layout, so that you can calculate actual value added and non-value added time for each process. This program is great for evaluating how much waste you incur as the work moves through the layout. |
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The Flow Planner diagrams all of your material moves over the entire layout, so that you can calculate total material handling distances, time and cost within your facility. This program is great for helping you sell your lean layout changes to management. |
The Lean Gurus site was created to help promote continous process improvement, and provide tools such as Proplanner’s software programs to businesses, colleges and universities at a discounted price.
Contact Aaron by email aaron@leangurus.com.
