How to choose factory layout software
Delivering new products, relocating manufacturing facilities, and global collaboration all require the right technology to bridge gaps, adapt to change with agility, and enable digital, automated ways of working.
Explore the capabilities you need to:
- Optimize your factory design
- Increase manufacturing throughput
- Improve time to market
- Reduce non-value-add processes
- Reduce errors and rework
Key qualities to look for in factory solutions
Integrated data across the factory lifecycle
Ideal solutions don't exist in silos. They enable collaboration by unifying everyone–from all disciplines and stages–around a single data source.
Digitalization of the factory
Mature factory layout workflows rely on highly visual digital representations of equipment, layouts, and buildings that aggregate always-up-to-date data.
Convergence of industries
Digital factory planning is only half the story. The other half is BIM. Whether a greenfield project or retrofit, your technology should enable you to design within the full context of the building.
Insights from inside the factory
“It is absolutely necessary for us to have highly efficient and flexible factories regarding all aspects: sustainability, productivity, and global infrastructure. This efficiency and flexibility is the basis of our resilience.”
– Maximilian Viessmann, CEO, Viessmann Group
Breaking Down the Barriers to More Collaborative Factory Projects, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
"Digital platforms are key to enable seamless coordination between the different subject matter experts involved by offering access to the latest information."
– Rupert Hoecherl, Managing Director & Partner, io-consultants
Breaking Down the Barriers to More Collaborative Factory Projects, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
Software for facilities layout
Product data management software—available as Vault Basic, Vault Professional, Vault Office