Factory Commander
Factory Commander(R) is a Cost and Resource Evaluation model that can be applied to any discrete manufacturing or assembly operation. It performs high-level cost analyses of overall factory and individual product costs, manufacturing capacity and revenues.
Japanese
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Windows 95/98/ME,
Windows XP/2000/NT
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The decision making process surrounding new facilities or new product lines requires that the operation's, cost structure be accurately evaluated. Product pricing, product mix, and production ramp rates are just a, few of the many considerations facing planners. Factory Commander(R), a cost and resource evaluation, software, provides planners easy and accurate projections. Because the software relies, to a great extent,, on Activity Based Costing (ABC) principles, it allows planners to effectively isolate the major sources, driving product costs. This leads to high-level economic projections, such as income and cash flow, statements, enabling management to anticipate what will be their cost drivers and to what degree. This in, turn allows for intelligent strategic decisions to be made based on a strong analytic foundation. , Example Output: Five Year Cash Flow , The applications for Factory Commander(R) are wide ranging. For instance, a variety of electronics, manufacturing technologies, semiconductor fabrication, IC assembly, flat panel displays, disk drives,, solar panels, etc., can benefit from this software without compromising the unique aspects associated, with their manufacturing process technologies. Also, because its focus is on making representative,, first-order economic analysis, it is ideal for planning for many types of capital intensive projects such as, future factories, new product lines, and facility retrofits. , As a resource evaluator, Factory CommanderTM can assess many of the critical capital and operational, requirements in environments that change over time. For example, assessments can be made on a, quarterly or yearly basis for:, Facility floor space (user-specifiable classes), , Tool counts (user-definable groups), , Direct and indirect labor staffing (user-definable groups such as operators, maintenance, technicians, supervisor, etc.), , Materials/consumables cost and quantities (user-definable items), , Utility costs, (multiple categories) and , Overhead costs (user-definable categories). , Predicting and understanding the issues related to resource usage enhances a manufacturer's ability to, prepare for them. For instance, during facility expansions and ramp up, anticipating tool requirements, over time can assist in the capital planning and minimize additional investments. , Factory Commander(R) also computes the tool-related and step-related volumes as well as the, associated unit costs based on user-specified demand for each time period. This allows for capacity and, economic analysis to be accomplished for new or changing product lines, and provides output that assists, with strategic decisions surrounding production-related matters. For instance, the software can project, the effect on costs and resources of a new product's introduction, or it can assess the potential cost, reduction produced by process improvements or advances in equipment productivity.