Streamline Production Planning
The Layout Creator Module gives estimators, customer service staff, and production planners the ability to create layouts for any existing design, without needing to rely on the design team. Whether working with newly created projects from the Standards Library, designs imported from other CAD systems, or designs already present in the Impact database, users can generate production layouts and plan the routing for production efficiently. This capability frees up your designers to focus on more complex, higher-value designs, helping to increase productivity and win new business.
Key Benefits
- Self-Sufficiency in Layout Creation: With the appropriate permissions, non-design staff can create production layouts for existing designs, reducing the workload on your design team.
- Optimised Machine and Sheet Utilisation: Machine and sheet utilisation data allow users to maximise production efficiency, ensuring that resources are used effectively.
- Detailed Layout Information: Layout data provides vital details on finished sheet sizes, knife-to-knife dimensions, and Number Up, allowing users to fully understand the production requirements.
- Accurate and Consistent Layouts: The Layout Module mirrors the functionality of Impact CAD, ensuring layout accuracy no matter where it’s created, maintaining consistency across the entire workflow.
- Flexible Layouts: Generate layouts for any existing design, newly created designs from the Standards Library or import designs from other CAD systems for easy integration into your workflow.
- Streamlined Production Planning: Enable production planners to access production information and plan routing, improving operational efficiency and reducing delays.
- Free Up Designers for Critical Projects: By allowing non-design personnel to manage layouts, designers can focus on complex and innovative designs that add more value to your business.
- Improved Collaboration: Estimators, customer service, and production teams can work more closely together, accessing the data they need without designer intervention, ensuring a smoother workflow across departments.
Related Modules
Boost Layout Efficiency with the Standards Library
Take your layout capabilities to the next level by combining Layout Creator with the Standards Library Module. With the Standards Library, users like estimators and order entry teams can quickly generate standard designs that are immediately ready for layout. This allows your team to bypass the design department for routine tasks, creating layouts for production directly from pre-defined standards. This ensures faster turnaround, reduces the strain on the design team, and keeps production running smoothly.
Streamline Layout Reviews with the Design Annotation Module
When paired with the Design Annotation Module, the Layout Creator Module allows users to streamline the review and approval of layouts. Estimators, production staff, and designers can easily mark up layouts with annotations, highlighting necessary changes or adjustments. This collaboration ensures that layouts are thoroughly reviewed before final production, reducing the risk of miscommunication and ensuring all changes are clearly documented and acted upon by the design team.
Module Dependencies
To utilise the Layout Creator Module, customers must have the Design Library Module. The Design Library provides access to the design files and information needed to create and manage layouts effectively. Additionally, customers may also consider purchasing the Standards Library and Design Annotation Module to further enhance their design workflows by automating standard designs and streamlining the design approval process through direct annotations.
Feature Change History
The following changes have been made to this feature.
| History of Change | Version |
|---|---|
| New Layout Creator module added | 2024.1 |