WITH SMARTWIP,
LET YOUR WORKSHOP
BE AT YOUR BECK AND CALL
A connected workshop control panel, intelligent and collaborative
WITH SMARTWIP,
Comply with your production objectives
Our Industry 4.0 tools provide you the necessary support to manage and optimize your workshops.
Control your delivery times
• Get to know the estimated lead time of each of your WOs.
• Follow your manufactures during all stages of production.
• Anticipate the appearance of bottlenecks & optimize your lead times.
• Control your service rates with a clear and proactive view.
Save time in your workshop scheduling
• Eliminate time-consuming tasks.
• Quickly organize your work orders.
• Let SmartWip continuously generate your production schedule.
• Remotely follow up your productions and adjust your sequences.
Reduce your mental workload
- Get a real time tracking of your WOs progression,
- Manage your works in process with ease and organize your queues,
- Let the SmartWip numerical twin do the complicated calculations.
“The ConWip approach has been applied in the Thales’ workshops within the defense mission systems in a technical repair environment: small flows, high product mix, difficulty to develop versatility, erratic input flows, highly variable routing times…
In this context, Wipsim helped us a lot with the ConWip loops dimensioning, the environment and constraints are such unstable that it certainly was not easy.
Additionally, the WipSim tool’s asset is in its ability to quickly design the behavior of a ConWip working line and do so with sufficient precision and consistency to carry out parametric impact analysis of the line (change of resources, improvement of a routing operation variability, development of the versatility…).”
Translated from French
“The ConWip approach has been applied in the AREVA Saint Marcel site. This site designs and manufactures the heavy equipment for nuclear power plants, namely reactor vessels, steam generators, pressurizers, etc.
The ConWip has been implemented in the welding and prototyping area. This area has several functions : it is the place where the welders do their qualifications, where the operating procedures are validated and where the control samples are manufactured to be tested in the plants.
The Wipsim simulator was necessary for the correct dimensioning of the work in process, and to ensure a risk-free transition between the initial situation and the lines management with the ConWip pull system”
Translated from French
In the context of a line set-up of the production processes, we have been led to work with the ConWip approach, simple and powerful method to control our work in process and lead times.
The simulation of the line has been done with the WipSim software, which allowed us to confirm our supply dimensioning, but also to easily target the flow bottlenecks and to establish a roadmap of various projects to run onto the line to improve its capacity. »
Translated from French
All the features in one control panel
Value Stream Mapping
Identify the tasks to improve
Fever chart
Follow-up the evolution of your queues
Pacer chart
Comply with your production objectives
schedule view
Anticipate any kind of delay
Dashboard
Precisely analyze your line’s performance
Interfaces with your applications
Synchronize your data with your ERP, your MES, your commercial management.
Waiting area
Visualize the pending workload
Conwip Area
Control your works in process and lead times
Incidents or Problems Zone
Follow-up the problems solving
Subcontracting view
Control your subcontracted flows
Short-Interval Management (SIM)
Manage the ocurrences on your lines
QSE Indicators
Ensure the Quality, Safety Environment reporting
Digital Twin forecast
Improve your visibility on the future situation of the workshop
Data Analytics
Directly access the key performance indicators of the workshop
Data saving
Archive the production event history
Simple & Efficient
• Easy to install and to use,
• The power of visual management, improved by the digital potential,
• Visual and accessible works in process control,
• Direct visualization of the current and future bottlenecks,
• Visual follow-up of the production performance,
• Real-time tracking of your works in process,
• Field scheduling,
• Subcontracting follow-up.
Intelligent & Connected
- Calculated and continuously updated lead times,
- Real-time key performance indicators,
- Flow analyze and Value Stream Mapping,
- Entirely integrated to the digital chain,
- Can be linked to your ERP, your MES, your commercial management.
Shared and Collaborative
- Multiple, shared and simultaneous accesses,
- Local and distant access,
- Support for the Short Interval Management,
- Production issues solving put in history.
Frequently asked questions about SmartWip control panels
What does the SmartWip digital twin provide?
The SmartWip digital twin projects you into the future from the current situation, and forecasts the state of your workshop in the next days. It also gives you visibility on the lead times of each Work Order, on the queues’ congestion, and the quantities that will be produced within each family.
SmartWip est il obligatoirement connecté avec mon ERP ou mon MES ?
Non, SmartWip peut tout à fait être déployé sans connexion (on parle alors de mode Stand Alone), les ordres de fabrication seront créés et gérés manuellement directement dans l’application.
Quelles données faut-il transmettre à SmartWip si je veux l’interfacer avec mon système d’information (ERP, MES, etc..) ?
SmartWip repose sur les bonnes pratiques du management visuel en atelier, il utilisera donc les informations qui vous sont utiles au quotidien pour piloter la production. SmartWip est très personnalisable et chaque utilisateur peut y faire ses propres choix en matière de données à interfacer. Par exemple, les numéros de commande ou d’ordre de fabrication (ou de réparation en MRO), les noms ou codes clients, les codes articles, les familles d’articles, les quantités de pièces, les numéros de lot, la référence des gammes et de leurs opérations ainsi que leurs temps opératoires, etc…
SmartWip est-il un logiciel de planification et/ou d’ordonnancement ?
A la fois Oui et à la fois Non… l’objet de SmartWip n’est ni de proposer une mise au planning automatisée des ordres de fabrication suggérés par MRP (PIC/PDP/CBN) ni d’en optimiser la séquence sur la base de contraintes préalablement paramétrées. SmartWip est avant tout un outil de pilotage d’atelier destiné à donner de la visibilité sur l’encours et les files d’attente dans l’atelier. Il embarque cependant un moteur de simulation/jumeau numérique qui calcule en continu les dates prévisionnelles de sortie des Ordres de fabrication à capacité finie. Grâce à cette visibilité en temps réel de la position des OFs et de leur délai prévisionnel de livraison, l’utilisateur peut ainsi faire facilement et en connaissance de cause, ses choix de pilotage et d’ordonnancement en en connaissant instantanément l’impact sur le planning de livraison / la performance / le respect des engagements.
SmartWip est-il accessible à distance ?
Oui, si l’application est installée sur un serveur avec un accès distant, elle utilisable depuis n’importe quel poste pouvant s’y connecter, localement ou à distance. L’application étant pleinement intégrée à l’écosystème informatique du Client, elle se conforme aux règles de sécurité et d’accès en place.
Plusieurs utilisateurs peuvent-ils travailler simultanémement avec SmartWip ?
Oui, SmartWip est conçu pour permettre un usage collaboratif, il peut donc être utilisé par différentes personnes qui contribuent au pilotage de l’activité, depuis des postes différents et de façon simultanée.
Can we use SmartWip without using CONWIP?
The Origins of SmartWip
📅 Initially, SmartWip was designed to digitize paper CONWIP workshop management boards. This development was in response to the users of the CONWIP pull system method who wanted to digitalize their processes.
💡 The software aimed to meet the specific needs of the industrial users of that time for managing and planning workshops using the pull system method.
Evolution of Needs and Software
🔄 Over time, the demands of users and the capabilities of our planning tool have evolved. Thanks to regular updates, SmartWip has technically adapted to support not only the CONWIP method but also other flow management methods.
Can I use SmartWip even if I use the push flow system?
✅ Yes! ✅
🔧 SmartWip stands out for its flexibility and open approach. It functions like an interactive whiteboard where users have complete freedom to configure their columns, name their categories, and choose the tickets to integrate. This software imposes few restrictions, making it compatible with various flow management methodologies, including the push flow system.
🏆 This is also why SmartWip can be considered a light MES for planning. Close to the field, simple, and highly adaptable, it complements traditional IS (MES, ERP, APS, …) which have a broader functional coverage but are also more complex, more specific, and more expensive!
📈 Today, many companies use the SmartWip solution without using CONWIP.
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