
Process Authoring
Change the Application, Not the Code
FlexNet® Process Builder is a Business Process Management (BPM) tool that gives non-technical personnel the dynamic authoring capabilities they need to adjust processes to meet changing requirements. With FlexNet Process Builder, you can adapt processes on the plant floor, at any point in the process, with full integration to existing ERP systems. Using XML-based Web Services technology and drag and drop tools, FlexNet Process Builder enables you to adapt to and control manufacturing complexity without resorting to laborious custom coding. FlexNet Process Builder enables you to respond to changes in market demand, business strategy and regulatory compliance, while maintaining continuous improvement initiatives to keep pace with Six Sigma requirements.
Key Functionality
- Allows for definitions of processes that drive complex, event-driven situations
- Configures execution processes that guide workers through in-flow tasks as well as controls how they handle unplanned events and exceptions
- Defines processes from a library of standard functions, or customizes processes
- Allows calculations to be performed on data acquired from functions, such as data entry validations and queries
- Enables assignment of resources to a process or any part of a process
- Integrates machine resources with execution processes
- Permits enforcement of revision level control when deploying processes and process components
- Supports primary and alternate routings and rework
- Identifies and tags operational activities as value-add or non-value-add in support of Lean manufacturing
- Edits and/or attaches detailed work instructions including multimedia-based instructions
- Links to multiple types of documentation, including engineering drawings, specifications and materials
- Attaches pre-defined specifications and characteristics of process elements to entire process, operation, or step

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