What software does Lanshi Plant use to prepare process cards for pressure vessels?
Thread Content
It seems that the Lanshi Plant’s website only promotes its weight assembly capabilities. It isn’t specified what software is used to create the process documents Currently, pressure vessel manufacturing plants mostly use AutoCAD+Excel. Large enterprises like Lansi Plant certainly won’t use AutoCAD to create process cards. Many people don’t know what software they use.
Now, Lanshi Factory is divided into many companies. Actually, the work done below isn’t that good either. There are also many people with only a superficial understanding.
Um... I don’t work at Lanshi; our company uses WORD to create process cards...
These days, WORD is used the most, with AutoCAD+Exce also being used. Actually, any software will do; it’s not necessarily the case that large companies are better at this.
In the manufacturing sector, there’s nothing advanced domestically either; it’s at this level, and no software can make a difference
A milestone in the history of CAPP is the CAM-I’s Automated Process Planning system, which was introduced by CAM-I in 1976. Taking the first letter of its name, it is called the CAPP system. Although there are still different interpretations for the acronym CAPP, referring to it as computer-aided process planning has become the accepted meaning. The role of CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning) is to use computers to develop the manufacturing processes for parts, transforming raw materials into the parts specified in the engineering drawings. It is a process in which geometric information of the part to be processed (shape, dimensions, etc.) and process information (material, heat treatment, batch size, etc.) are entered into a computer, which then automatically generates process documents such as the processing route and the details of the various steps involved in manufacturing the part. Computer-aided process design is also often translated as computer-aided process planning. The International Council for Research in Production Engineering (CIRP) proposed terms such as Computer-Aided Planning (CAP) and Computer-Automated Process Planning (CAPP); the term CAPP emphasizes the automatic design of manufacturing processes. In fact, some commonly used terms abroad, such as manufacturing planning, material processing, process engineering, and machine routing, largely refer to the design of manufacturing processes. Computer-aided process planning falls under the category of engineering analysis and design, and is one of the important preparatory tasks for production. With the emergence of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS), computer-aided process planning is connected to computer-aided design (CAD) at one end, and to computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) at the other; it serves as a bridge between design and manufacturing. Design information can only be transformed into manufacturing information through process design, and it is only through process design that design and manufacturing can achieve functional and informational integration. This shows the important role of CAPP in achieving production automation.
We use CAD and Excel, along with VBA for further development, which helps to improve efficiency a bit; actually, there’s no need to use any specialized software for this task.
We just use Word and Excel; it’s fine