CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 July 2009
Product News
Jobshop 2009 R3
Planit’s Jobshop is a flexible, scalable and intelligent production planning and control system offering advanced functionality in the key areas of manufacturing and assembly. The software allows businesses to successfully compete in demanding market conditions, through direct productivity improvements and lower IT infrastructure costs.
This latest release of Jobshop, 2009 R3, adds a number of new features in addition to further developing existing functionality and improving usability throughout the system.
Data analysis and reporting is one of the primary objectives of a manufacturing software solution. Jobshop provides an extensive suite of standard reports, which can be extended and enhanced with the use of Crystal Reports. In this latest version powerful document customisation allows key system documents to be defined for printing, emailing or PDF creation, either via the standard internal print format or a fully customisable document based on a Crystal Report template.
The Crystal option adds exciting possibilities to the external documents feature, allowing users to define the Jobshop data they require on the form and format the document layout in any style. By judicious application of user definable or analysis fields within the Jobshop database it is even possible to customise documents to vary for different customers, suppliers or even applications.
Shop documents and GRN (goods received notes)/stock labels can also be produced and customised using the same procedures. Example layouts of documents are included with the software for users to expand and develop and novice Crystal users can work with their consultant to create the ideal document set.
Jobshop’s costing functionality provides users with a wide variety of options based on standard, current or actual costs. All purchasing, manufacturing and associated costs are determined within a single database engine; ensuring reports are based on consistent and accurate data. Another new development in Jobshop 2009 R3 is aimed at helping estimators assess process times more efficiently and with greater consistency and accuracy, by building the planned labour times from a toolkit of synthetics.
Standard processes can be defined as a series of formula based steps using a new graphical formula builder. Constants and variables can be incorporated and linked to specific materials and work centres. When applied to an estimate the user is prompted to enter the pertinent data as required by the formula and the resultant operation time is calculated.
Jobshop incorporates complete ‘cradle to grave’ parts issue control. For sites using the existing sized stock part functionality in Jobshop, new length or area based materials can now be defined directly within the estimate just like any other material. If the job is won then Sales Confirmation will allow creation of these parts as standard. Sized stock has been further extended to cover coil material. New conversion factors allow purchasing in sensible units and off-cut returns are calculated automatically.
Of key interest to aerospace and motorsport companies producing carbon fibre composite parts, the shelf life functionality in this latest release has been extended to recognise temperature sensitive parts. The shelf life of such components or materials automatically reduces in line with their exposure to ambient temperature. The exact degree of degradation can be specified as a factor against each part.
To make accounting easier the VAT category applied to a Sales Invoice is now delivery address dependent rather than customer orientated.
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