Overview

Welcome to the DPM Process and Resource Definition User's Guide! This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product. This overview provides the following information: DPM Process and Resource Definition in a Nutshell Before Reading this Guide Getting the Most Out of this Guide Conventions Used in this Guide
DPM Process and Resource Definition in a Nutshell
DELMIA Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM) Process and Resource Definition serves as the foundation for DELMIA's DPM family of vertical process planning and simulation applications. It provides core functions to create, visualize, and verify manufacturing processes, and allows users to create process libraries containing process templates that are based on best practices. With DPM Process and Resource Definition, users can completely define a process by creating hierarchies of operations and sequencing those operations. Users can add additional detail to their operations by assigning both products transformed by the operation and resources that act on the products. DPM Process and Resource Definition supports basic tools for concurrent engineering of products, processes, and resources (PPR). It provides four different viewers from which to edit process information: the PPR tree view, the PERT chart view, the Gantt chart view, and the 3D inventory view. Altering the data in any view automatically alters it in all others. Users can verify the accuracy and performance of the designed process by employing a set of internal and external simulation analysis tools. Finally, DPM Planner allows users to document their processes using convenient standardized formats such as HTML. DPM Process and Resource Definition is an essential tool for process engineers and simulation engineers who work in areas such as aero assembly, auto assembly, body-in-white, powertrain and inspection. DPM Process and Resource Definition is available for Windows and UNIX platforms. Note that some add-on products, such as the Manufacturing Hub and Engineering Requirement Planner, do not have UNIX versions.
Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.
Getting the Most out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to start a session and load text from a library. Once you have finished, you should move on to the Basic Tasks section, which deals with handling the basic product functions, followed by the Advanced Tasks section which covers more advanced topics such as the Manufacturing Hub and 3D state management. The Workbench Description section, which describes the Process and Resource Definition workbench, and the Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options, will also certainly prove useful. Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.