Going through the motions can be beneficial

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YOU'VE probably heard of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and even Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI), but now a software developer has come up with something that it claims can do what the other systems can't. Launched in Australia last month, PLMA'sTecnomatix software suite, enables companies to accurately pre-plan factory capacities, throughputs and requirements in terms of machinery, conveyers, storage bays and locations, numbers of forklifts, widths of isles, etc. "It allows manufacturers, to do 'what if s' and analyse different scenarios," said PLMA's director Dennis Colusso. "All this means more accurate and reliable data about manufacturing throughput and the manufacturing process, which can then be interfaced to ERP systems and the like."