Ascon Digital Planning
Transform your planning processes with innovative solutions. Benefit from optimized production planning and engineering processes and create a closed, digital loop of data consistency across all project phases.
Ascon Digital Planning enables you to work with harmonized and processed data from various sources along the digital process chain and to make it available throughout the entire product development process.
Benefits of Ascon Digital Planning
Why should you work with Ascon Digital Planning
Continuous Data Availability: The availability of consistent and up-to-date data in the product development process reduces waste, costs and time, as all employees involved work with uniform data of the same quality.
Closely linked product development process: A fully integrated and transparent exchange between planning, engineering and production leads to a more agile and optimized process, with a faster time-to-market and higher ROI.
Intuitive Process Planning: A low-code solution to design processes and automation capabilities, based on pre-defined models, will enable you to work faster and more efficient. Skilled worker shortages are avoided.
AI and ML to Support Planning: AI and machine learning support analysis, pattern recognition, decision making, process optimization, knowledge management and transfer. Best practices are established to optimize and automate planning tasks and results, and routine tasks are handed over to AI.
Technological and Strategical Advantage: Digitally transforming your planning and production processes enables the bidirectional integration of data and information, making the information available and transparent for everyone involved. Ultimately, you will benefit from higher quality, reduced costs, and shorter lead times.
Our mission
is to reduce the burden on production planning and make it smoother. Efficiency, accuracy and flexibility are improved, effort and time are reduced, the quality of the output is increased and the risks of an incorrect production plan are minimized.”
Features
What’s inside the Digital Planning?
Closed Loop:
We empower your planning, engineering, and operations teams to work with fully transparent and integrated data. All teams operate with unified data, from heterogeneous sources, ensuring consistency in planning and execution. The platform harmonizes data to meet the specific needs of each team at every phase, facilitating seamless collaboration. Insights and updates are instantly accessible to others, enhancing efficiency and supporting the planning of new products or facilities.
Geometric Validation Enabler:
Experience an Industrial Metaverse gateway that enables a visual, geometric and 3D validation of a new or existing manufacturing plant. The conditions of the plant can be taken into account even in the early planning phase. To avoid any breakdowns (collisions, missing power supplies, etc.), visualize and validate new structures and equipment before the actual installation.
Manufacturing Process Design:
Design, implement and optimize manufacturing processes for your entire production. Processes are checked for efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness, but also for problems, risks or other disruptions before you actually start or change production.
Simulate Material Flow:
Validate the entirety of your production systems, using a dynamic 3D visualization (e.g. Nvidia Omniverse or Threedy). Model, validate and simulate all processes to ensure a smooth production process.
Resource and Layout Planning:
A central resource catalog provides suitable resources with the required skills in the context of the assembly task. Criteria such as minimizing transport routes and times, machine accessibility, modular arrangement or safety issues are taken into account in the optimal positioning. This model supports decision-making, communication and collaboration, which leads to more efficient and adaptable production.
What can Digital Planning be used for?
Resource Planning
Common resource library simplifies planning.
The central provision and use of uniform resource information throughout the product development process enables resources to be standardized.
The single source of truth avoids inconsistencies and redundancies, which leads to an accelerated planning process and increased quality.
Planning of Variant Production
Plan and produce variants on the same production line.
Planning and production can quickly be updated and optimized, based on current data from machines. Quick adaptations to new input, such as customer preferences, means faster reaction to market changes.
Greenfield Planning
Plan your new production facility with ease.
All relevant parameters, requirements and specifications are defined, e.g. equipment, manufacturing processes, layouts for machines and facilities, safety and compliance requirements.
Brownfield Planning
Easy modernization, conversion, expansion of existing systems.
The possibility of simulating and testing planned changes based on a digital twin (new or existing) allows the early identification of potential risks, bottlenecks or problems.
End-to-end Data Availability
Use existing planning data to learn and save time and effort.
One continuous data model for all resource and process planning means every planning, engineering and production step is done on the same basis. This leads to less re-work and time and cost saving.
Resource Planning
Planning of Variant Production
Greenfield Planning
Brownfield Planning
End-to-end Data Availability
End-to-End Automation
End-to-End Automation – Ascon Qube
The Digital Planning technology is part of the revolutionary Ascon Qube.
Consistent, end-to-end data availability and continuity enables you to leverage the entire data base from previous projects to make informed decisions and gain insights for future projects.
Ascon Qube is an edge-to-cloud platform that lets you break free from hard-coded PLCs and integrate heterogeneous landscapes. Live-synced digital twins deliver complete transparency and an interface to execute low-code changes.
Ascon AIM offers you the possibility to benefit from the extensive experiences of our consulting experts, who will accompany you on your way to a flexible and digital production.
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