A detailed listing of features and benefits appears below:
| DISCUS Planner Feature | Pertinent Business Benefit |
|---|---|
| Maintain a routing and defined operations for a specific part | Reduces the effort to coordinate characteristic planning with other systems such as ERP |
| Maintain routing templates with reusable information | Reduces the time and labor to create comprehensive process planning documentation |
| Customizable inspection methods, sampling plans, etc. | Ensures that system works with existing databases and terminology |
| Assign characteristics to specific operations where produced and/or inspected | Ensures that all characteristics are being properly defined throughout the production lifecycle |
| Review application of Characteristics by operation | Reduces quality escapes by helping to validate the changes in characteristic values between operations |
| Create work instructions and process illustrations for each operation | Improve yield by enabling production personnel to concentrate on requirements for the specific operation |
| Automatically create operation inspection characteristics | Reduce the time and labor to create comprehensive process planning documentation |
| Text markup of illustrations by operation | Improves communication by allowing customized information for each operation |
| Filter Characteristics and display drawings side-by-side | Reduces time to link related characteristics and ensures that all characteristics have been properly assigned |
| Export a complete process plan with instructions, illustrations, etc. | Reduces the time and labor to create comprehensive process planning documentation |
| Export Characteristics and operations to customizable Excel reports | Provides format for additional downstream applications such as inspection sheets, setup sheets, etc. |