Technomatix Software from Siemens helps Curtiss-Wright reduce manufacturing cycle time by 50%

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a diversified company that designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow contr...

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a diversified company that designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications. Curtiss-Wright offers the industry’s broadest product set including graphic cards, I/O cards, digital signal processors used on air, ground and military platforms. Curtiss-Wright management recently set an ambitious target of achieving a 50 percent cycle time reduction over the course of two years. As part of that effort, Embedded Computing is doing everything it can to streamline its production process. The management decided to implement Technomatix MES Electronic software from Siemens which issues and tracks work orders but also goes the extra step of including the information needed for manufacturing (design files, drawings and bills of material), which it accesses from the other applications. Tecnomatix delivers this information electronically to manufacturing engineers and shop floor personnel, eliminating the labour that used to be required to obtain and distribute these documents.The Siemens Tecnomatix solution tracks a circuit card through the production process, monitoring work in progress and collecting quality data along the way. Quality data from Tecnomatix flows back to SAP for cost management evaluations. While Tecnomatix updates SAP, there is a cost saving which does not require data to be re-entered into SAP. Finally Embedded Computing has eliminated approximately 40 percent of the nonvalue added activities on the production floor since implementing this manufacturing execution system. These efforts have contributed to a 25 percent reduction in cycle time in a year, putting the company on track to reach its 50 percent target in two years. DOWNLOAD VALVE SOLUTIONS APP. WANT TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCT? FEEDBACK @anand_rkrishnan