Every company that manufactures and sells one or more products plans its production in detail. All the components are assembled in the correct sequence, resources are used to the fullest, and the product goes through quality assurance before it is sold.
Organizations that produce documents and drawings as their main assets, like Engineering companies, often base their planning and reporting experience from previous projects. These organizations often get paid by progress, which requires accurate progress measurement.
The ProArc planning module gives you full control over planned, estimated and actual progress on drawings and documents. Resources can be added where the risk of delays becomes apparent, and documentation quality can be controlled throughout the life cycle. Mission-critical drawings and documents can be controlled in a specific and well-organized manner.
Instead of one person’s estimate of the status, ProArc Planning provides an actual progress percentage that identifies exactly where you are in document and drawing production.
In ProArc, documents can be grouped in document-packages, where plan- and progress-data for each document can be aggregated to the document- package- level. Progress-data for documents and packages is based on progress chains and related milestones. For each document a set of milestones can be defined and planned. As document production progress, actual dates could be set manually or automatically based on revision or distribution activities. The user may customize the criteria that automatically set the actual date on a particular milestone. Progress data from the document- and document-package level can be transferred to the customer’s planning system.
The graphical workflow designer is used to define the processes to be automated, and business rules and decision points within the Process.
Features
- Milestone chains for individual Documents is used to calculate progress on single Documents
- Documents are grouped into Packages to calculate overall progress for the grouped Documents
- Each Document can be assigned a weight, used in progress calculation for the Package
- Planned, Forecast and Actual dates are used to calculate planned, forecast and actual progress for the Documents and Packages
- A Milestone can be trigged by rules defined in the ProArc configuration, e.g. when a Document has been approved or distributed for a certain reason.
- Planning data can be exported to 3rd party planning tools
- Planning data can be imported from external data sources