 | SMARTEAM Workflow (WFL) provides workflow automation and management that streamlines your business processes and expedites engineering changes. WFL enables you to manage project workflow, track project status, and automatically route work from one stage to the next. You can initiate a workflow by choosing from a list of pre-defined engineering change processes (ECP/ECR/ECN/ ECO) or easily custom-define additional workflow processes. WFL supports embedded flowcharts, for the simplified representation and automation of complex business processes. An alert mechanism notifies managers of past-due processes, prompting them to send reminders to the relevant parties. WFL supports national language support (NLS), enabling process representation in most languages. This product is available through the SMARTEAM Engineering (SEG), SMARTEAM Electronics (SET), and SMARTEAM FDA Compliance (SFA) configurations, or as an optional product with any SMARTEAM configuration. Features
- Streamlines business workflow by linking people, information and processes together
- Manages all enterprise workflow processes to shorten time-to-market and increase return on investment (ROI)
- Comprised of four components:
- Flowchart Designer supports unique business processes and now supports multi-level workflow capability through embedded flowcharts
- Workflow Manager provides improved strategic decision making
- SmartBox keeps the work in motion
- Workflow server drives and tracks all workflow processes used across SMARTEAM solution
- Alert on processes that are stacked
- Optional: BOM change process management, through use of BOM WhiteBoard
Key customer benefits
- Reduce time to market, by automating company's business processes
SMARTEAM Workflow (WFL) reduces time to market by enabling you to: - Share information online
- Run processes in parallel when needed
- Involve all related parties through an electronic process
- Meet deadlines through better control of the overall process
- Reduce the time for Engineering changes
Every manufacturer is required to undergo product change processes. Changes to new products take place at all stages like design, purchasing, tooling, and manufacturing. Changes to released products are also common upon customer feedback, field service requirements, new technologies, changing market needs, and new regulations.
- Improve Engineering change process by:
- Respond faster to customer requirements
- Perform better analysis of the affect of a change (cost, engineering time)
- Eliminate errors and improve quality
- Paperless mode
- Connecting to the PDM repository keeps all parties coordinated within a highly secured environment
- Meet ISO, FDA, and other industry requirements
- Optimize resource utilization
SMARTEAM Workflow (WFL) enables companies to monitor and identify bottlenecks by specifying a due date time for each task (node) and for the overall process. - With the Workflow Manager, managers can view which tasks are past due, review workflow status, and even make routing changes on-the-fly and resolve bottlenecks.
- The new Alert Mechanism enables managers to periodically check past-due processes and nodes and send reminders to the responsible parties. The Workflow Manager provides statistical reports, showing the average time for all processes and allows advanced searches using any process attributes. This enables strategic decisions to be based on a global perspective of the company's work processes, both at any given moment and over time.
- Reduction in overhead related to information distribution
Allows electronic distribution of the latest version of document automatically forwarding all information upon completion of work on the previous step.
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