Ford Chooses Cimtechnologies' Layout Software.AMES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997--Ford Motor Company, after an extensive multi-year global review of software for plant design, layout and analysis, has selected CIMTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION's FactoryCAD/FLOW line of products for 2D and 3D factory design, visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all and costing. This decision applies to all Ford industrial facilities globally and will result in the implementation of a consistent set of software and standards to become more responsive in the development of efficient manufacturing facilities. During the review process, Ford Motor Company worked closely with CIMTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION to enhance its product line for use in multiple languages and countries. These changes were implemented in the 5.0 version of the Factory series which was released in July 1997. The decision is part of the Ford 2000 initiative to select the best practices in all phases of its operations, in this case standard plant design layout analysis (PDLA) CADD (Computer-Aided Design and Drafting) CAD systems with additional features for drafting, such as dimensioning and text entry. CADD - Computer Aided Detector Design: a project to develop standards and methods to allow cooperation between HEP software. Ford plants from throughout the US have begun using the software over the last two years, and initial orders from Ford plants in the UK and Germany have been placed with the Ames, Iowa Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa, about 30 miles north of Des Moines in Story County. It is the principal city of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Story County, Iowa and which, when combined with the based engineering software company. Cimtechnologies' factory CADD product line runs on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. platform personal computers and workstations. Products include FactoryCAD(R) for drawing and managing factory layouts, FactoryFLOW(R) for visualizing and analyzing material flow, and FactoryPLAN(R)/FactoryOPT(TM) for constructing, manipulating, and scoring activity relationship diagrams. FactoryCAD contains routines and symbol libraries developed specifically for modeling industrial facilities, including cranes, racks, conveyors, structural elements Structural elements are used in structural analysis to simplify the structure which is to be analysed. Structural elements can be linear, surfaces or volumes. Linear elements:
AIAG Animal Industries Advisory Group ) and other industrial standards. FactoryCAD has advanced modules for estimating equipment cost and analyzing space use. FactoryFLOW integrates actual plant drawings and material flow paths with production and material handling data. Using material flows as the key measure of industrial layout and production design efficiency, FactoryFLOW enables the manufacturing engineer The profession of manufacturing engineer is defined as a person having the education and experience to understand and control manufacturing systems such as processes and/or automation, including industrial processes and equipment used to produce goods. to evaluate, compare, and recommend alternative designs with speed and confidence. FactoryPLAN diagrams and scores alternative designs using relationships between activities as the key measure of layout efficiency. Relationships are assigned according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. factors such as supervision, noise and dirt, energy, shared equipment, personnel movement, and material flow intensity. FactoryOPT speeds creation of new layouts by using relationship data files created in FactoryPLAN to generate an adjacency graph of optimal activity locations, then a block diagram A chart that contains squares and rectangles connected with arrows to depict hardware and software interconnections. For program flow charts, information system flow charts, circuit diagrams and communications networks, more elaborate graphical representations are usually used. based on the graph. For more information on Cimtechnologies' FactoryCAD 5.0, contact Helena Poist, Director of Marketing, at (515) 296-9914 or at helena@cimtech.com. Cimtechnologies Corporation was established in 1987. The company's founders, who are recognized experts in facilities design, provide factory layout and production design software to a wide variety of industries. Cimtechnologies' clients include Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Boeing Commercial, Caterpillar, Deere & Company, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, Honda of America, and Motorola. CONTACT: Cimtechnologies Corporation Emil Polashek E-Mail: emil@cimtech.com Voice: (515) 296-7757 Fax: (515) 296-9909 http://www.cimtech.com |
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