System Options
Not every manufacturer does business the same way. One of the most powerful
capabilites of the PRO:MAN software is its ability to accommodate differences in system
demand and business practices. To this end, several PRO:MAN system options are
available.
Engineering Change Control - ECN
PRO:MANs Engineering Change Control is used by manufacturing companies that
require detailed tracking of change orders and bill-of-material effectivity structure
changes.
- Engineering Change Request (ECR) Tracking:
- Urgency
- Savings and Costs Expected
- Responsibility
- Approval
- Engineering Change Order (ECO) Tracking:
- Costs
- Charge-to responsibility
- Disposition of parts.
- Effectivity dates for components in BOM:
- Start date of change
- Stop date of change
- BOM mass change capability
- Integrated with MRP processing
PRO:MANs Leads management option puts you in control of sales leads.
Simplify lead entry, follow-up, media results tracking, and conversion from lead to
customer.
- Enter and maintain lead data
- Auto assigned to Rep based on product and geographical area
- Generate follow-up reports and action lists
- Includes Publisher and Media files to track literature and publication effectiveness and
costs
- Generate follow-up mailing lists
- Convert leads to customers
- Reduce or eliminate duplicate leads
PRO:MANs Lot Tracking option tracks parts by lot number from the time a part is
received, through Stores and multiple levels of work orders, until the final assembly is
shipped.
- Lot control by part
- Lot number tracking for all inventory transactions of parts under lot control,
including:
- Purchase order receipts
- Unplanned receipts (no PO)
- Issues and returns to work orders
- Issues and returns to General Ledger Accounts
- Work Order receipts
- Shipments
- RMA transactions (when the RMA option is present)
- Lot labels for identification of parts and for hard copy records such as:
- Purchase receipts
- Picklists for work orders
- Packing slips for shipments
- On-line history of all transactions of a specific part and lot
- Inquiry to all lots issued to a work order or receipts from a work order
- Compatible with the standard bar code extension and the RF-BAR Code Option
PRO:MANs Project Accounting Option is used create and track special projects and
the budgets and costs associated with them.
- Enter and maintain Project Codes
- Collect labor to projects
- Issue material to projects
- Purchase material or labor to projects
- Produce project Recap reports
- Charge project costs to GL accounts
PRO:MANs Radio Frequency Bar Coding Option is available to manufacturers with
special inventory needs such as large warehouses, high volume parts picking environments,
or other special material handling needs.
- Utilizes hand held RF laser scanning units
- Provides real time data information and updates
- RF Bar Codes many uses include:
- Pick material for work orders without paper pick lists
- Put away material by location
- Use to fill shortages prior to putting material to stock
- Pick material to ship, without shiplists
- Transfer inventory between locations
- Perform random inventory audits or cycle counts
- Inventory transactions are real time; eliminate out of date quantity, lot and location
information.
PRO:MANs RMA option supports the processing of returns of product from customers,
for repair and return, or exchange of all or part of the product. The module allows
for data to be entered and managed separately from standard outbound or return sales
orders.
- Create and maintain RMA records with details for Customers or End Users tracking:
- Customer Bill and Ship address
- Multiple items on a single RMA number
- Serial numbers
- Purchase date and source
- RMA types and payment codes
- Problem description and comments
- Ability to print an RMA receipt screen to record the:
- Actual items received
- Date of receipt
- Method of shipment
- Comments and other details
- Optionally launch a special work order to track repair costs
- A RMA repair screen is used to track:
- Actual items used in repair, with costs
- Labor used to repair
- Service codes
- Invoice comments
- Internal comments
- Capable of printing a RMA packslip when the product is ready to be shipped
- RMA invoices are generated and costs and revenues posted to the general ledger
PRO:MAN's SPC consists of three major components:
- Defining the process
- Proving the process is capable
- Periodically checking and tracking specification and control limits to ensure that the
process is still capable and that "good" parts are being produced
SPC Benefits
- SPC provides the tools to:
- Improve quality and productivity
- Increase customer satisfaction through improved quality
- Produce only conforming parts
- Reduce or eliminate costly rejections
SPC Process Definition
- Maintain SPC gauge data
- Maintain constants for SPC calculations
- Define and maintain standard SPC characteristics
- Capable of attaching standard characteristics to standard work order operations
- Capable of attaching standard characteristics to part routings
- Standard reports for:
- Gauge listing
- Calibration tickler for gauges
- SPC Constants
- SPC Characteristics
- Operations using SPC characteristics
- Routings using SPC characteristics
SPC Data Collection
- Ability to print work orders with SPC operations and graphs
- SPC operations can be modified on open work orders
- Measurement collection for single or multiple characteristics
- Measurements can be entered by the operator or with electronic measurement devices
- On screen X-bar and R-bar graphs are updated for immediate process feedback and
correction prior to producing nonconforming parts
- Measurements can be updated after collection
SPC Control and Analysis
- Capable of selectively exporting data to a variety of statistical graphing applications
or spreadsheets
- Capable of recalculating SPC values to refine the process
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