Best practice layout | Production Line

Process Modeling
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Hi there,

i’ve done a few layouts of production line wich all work somehow. But with every new layout if troubling around with same issues wich cost me alot oft time to trial and error. Also some issues seem to behave unlogical with makes it even hard to find the perfect solution.

At this point I like to ask here if there is a best practice solution for this simple production setup wich can be scaled without issues. Production setup as shown:

Demo Production
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Most Problems were i’m always unsure:

  • Where to start / end a flowgroup
  • Where to put the products / assemblys that it works for all flow group (mostly i put everything in one flow group to make it work, wich makes the layout messed up and unreadable)
  • Best approch to send products from one flow group to another
  • Make it sense to switch from assembly to a represeting product in terms of performance

Can someone give my a hint how to solve this properly or has a simple best pratice demo layout…
Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Maror

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Hey Maror,

I personally try to keep the processes rather simple, for example, from beginning of the product until the product experiences some changes (its shape changes or it is added to an assembly and so on). When there is some change on the product I usually put it on another flow. This is just general way of how I’m doing things and obviously not “best practices”.

To see more layouts, you can check the eCatalog itself, see figure 1.
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Figure 1

Those layouts should provide some examples of how things are done.

Hope this helps.