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Flow Planner is the market leading tool for anyone with responsiblility for material flow analysis, factory layouts, and tugger route design
If you were asked to determine the utilization of the fork truck drivers in your plant, would you create something that looks like this spaghetti diagram? Would your results be accurate? How long would it take to perform the analysis?
Calculating the distance from Point A to Point B is not necessarily difficult, if you only have to do it once. What if you have thousands of different paths? What if you need to be more detailed and include things such as fork truck acceleration or stop points at intersections?
Flow Planner helps by calculating the exact distance between points on the drawing, routing the material handling equipment through the aisles, and providing both visual and quantitative results.
Working within AutoCAD, Flow Planner can automatically generate material flow diagrams and calculate material handling travel distances, time and cost. With variable-width lines color-coded by product, part or material handling method, users quickly see how layouts should be arranged and where excessive material handling should be eliminated from the manufacturing process. The ultimate result is a better factory layout.
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