Implementation of Web Based Manufacturing Process Planning Workflow in a Pressure Die Casting Industry

Today’s manufacturing industry requires product data management system (PDM) for efficient product development and production. Manufacturing industries must deal with competition, time to market, reduction of the cost of doing business, and rapid development of new services and products. To address these requirements industries must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their systems and applications to support evolving business processes. In the part of the PDM solution, workflow management system facilitates creating and executing workflow and controlling, monitoring, optimizing and supporting business processes. This paper proposes an approach to implement web based manufacturing process planning workflow in a pressure die casting industry to overcome the bottleneck associated with the workflow of the company. The advantage of this work is its efficiency and flexibility of data management and the business processes are explicitly defined. Manufacturing process planning workflow has been implemented to support the business process of the pressure die casting industry.