ERP for machine building
Machines are designed, adapted and built per customer. Digital WorkMate keeps BOMs, revisions, costing, scheduling and the shop floor together, so engineering, work preparation and production work from the same information.
Where it often pinches
- Deep, customer-specific BOMs with many changes
- Revisions that can change during an order
- A mix of in-house production, purchasing and customer-supplied material
- Controlling lead time across many operations and machines
- Knowing what a machine actually cost
From customer request to delivered machine
- 1Sales order
- 2Product revision
- 3BOM
- 4Cost estimate
- 5Reserve / buy / produce
- 6Scheduling
- 7Shop floor
- 8Actual costing
BOMs and revisions you can trust
Multi-level BOMs with phantom assemblies and dimensions. A released revision is protected; a new revision automatically retires the previous one, so running orders stay on their own revision.
Costing that turns straight into action
From the cost estimate you reserve stock per component, create purchase demand or prepare production orders, including customer-supplied material that does not need to be purchased.
Scheduling and shop floor in one system
The scheduler uses the availability of machines and people. Operators report start, progress, consumption and scrap, so scheduling and actual costing run on real data.
A CAD/PDM integration for automatically taking over BOMs is not standard; BOMs can be loaded through the Excel import.
What Digital WorkMate offers for this today
For each part you can see whether it is fully or partially available.
- Multi-level bills of materialsAvailable
Multi-level BOMs with phantom assemblies, dimensions (length, width, height) and material-loss rules for saw and cutting loss.
- Product revisionsAvailable
Revisions with work-in-progress, released and obsolete status; released structures are protected against changes.
- Cost estimatingAvailable
Cost estimates based on the BOM; one action per component to reserve stock, create a purchase demand or a production order.
- Make-or-buy adviceAvailable
Transparent, rule-based advice per component on whether to make or buy it.
- Production orders with routingAvailable
Production orders with operations (setup, cycle and wait time), template orders as standard routings, grouping and yield/scrap per operation. The system advises the quantity to start to reach the required good quantity and shows the historical yield per product and operation, which you can adopt as the new default yield.
- Finite-capacity schedulingAvailable
Automatic priority-driven scheduler with ASAP and JIT scheduling, dependencies, critical path and a drag-to-reschedule Gantt chart. Per department you set a priority per production order, the Gantt shows department colours and filters on workplace, department and user, and a planner work list shows the operations of a user's workplaces. An operation without planned time does not block scheduling.
- Operator work listAvailable
Operations by priority per operator; start, park and complete with automatic time registration.
- Hours, progress and actual costingAvailable
Actual times, consumption and scrap per operation; planned versus actual and the cost per good piece.
- Projects and project stockAvailable
Projects with locations, tasks, project stock and linked production orders.
- Product options and variantsPartial
Commercial options decide which BOM lines apply to an order or estimate; no rule-based product configurator.
Machine building: frequently asked questions
Does Digital WorkMate support multi-level BOMs for machine building?
Yes. Multi-level BOMs with phantom assemblies and dimensions, with revisions whose released structures are protected against changes.
Can I see the actual cost per machine?
Yes. Actual times, consumption and scrap per operation are compared with the plan, so you see the cost price and actual costing per order.
Is there a CAD or PDM integration?
There is no standard integration for automatically taking over BOMs. You load BOMs with the Excel import, and with the REST API you can build your own integration.
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