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Bridge, Digital Manufacturing Software Solution
Accelerators
Bridge provides ready-made integrations with third-party solutions, significantly reducing implementation time, costs, and risks. Leverage these proven accelerators to enhance your operational efficiency and achieve rapid deployment success.
Google Workspace
A full scope industrial document management system for organizations using Google Workspace.
Enhance Google’s collaborative documentation features with comprehensive document management capabilities:
Value added:
- Structure complex documents assembling files but also reusable groups of files to create procedures or packages.
- Link documents to industrial context (production lines, products, partners, or a combination of these attributes) to facilitate contextual access.
- Role-Based Access Control: Manage access to document libraries based on roles and organizational hierarchy (vs using Google’s less effective approach).
- Formal Version Management: Add structured version control to Google’s change tracking. (Snapshot formally approved versions to feed “as designed” reporting.
- Approval Workflows: Fully configurable stages, reviewers, and escalation paths, including parallel and sequential approvals, rework loops, and multi-level workflows for addressing objections and blocking issues.
- Document Distribution: Distribute documents to the field with contextual industrial portals (touch screen, production context driven, secured and tracked access using NCF cards…) for quick and easy access.
- Optional Security Enhancements: Document encryption for additional safety and compliance with standards like TISAX.
- Local Document Buffering: Optional read-only document local buffering for consistent response times and high availability/business continuity.
- Feedback Mechanisms: Feedback loop from document consumers to owners for questions and redlining to connect the production line back to the engineering department.
This fully integrated solution can be implemented in a few days, and integration with other manufacturing systems like MES is also possible.
APRISO (Dassault Systeme) MES Integration Accelerators
Enhance Apriso’s native capabilities with Bridge accelerators
Save time and money while increasing your agility by extending Apriso’s execution capabilities with Bridge out-of-the-box solutions. Fully integrated with Apriso, these accelerators can be implemented in days and managed by your business team for optimal agility and cost efficiency.
Key Features:
- Document Management and Approval Workflow:
- Efficiently manage complex document structures for standard operating procedures.
- Implement formal enterprise workflows to release documents (electronic work instructions, manuals, procedures) integrated with Office 360 or Google Workspace.
- Distribute documents using the Bridge portal or directly from Apriso execution screens.
- Enhance Apriso’s version objects management (Products, Processes, BOMs, Routings, Specifications) with configurable, role-based workflows.
- Training and Certification Management:
- Manage worker training and certification within Bridge, and interlock Apriso’s production execution flow in case of training or certification non-conformance.
- Formalize training plans and certification requirements.
- Plan and execute training sessions (group, self, on-the-line, or in-class), and manage trainers.
- Monitor skills and certification expiration based on dates and skills usage.
- Interlock Apriso’s execution flow if training is required or certification has expired.
- Anticipate training needs before new product introductions or process changes.
- Optimize certification processes to reduce training costs.
- Trace training and execution activities for compliance audits.
- Event-Driven Reactions:
- React to production events (new product on the line, line status changes, operator check-ins/outs, shift changes, non-conformance, process or test results out of specifications) with digital checklists or escalation workflows.
- Control temporary or periodic procedures (quality, production, safety, maintenance, calibration).
- Execute workflows on touch screens, PCs, phones, or from the Apriso execution portal.
- User-defined flows requiring no programming or IT support.
Several million checklists are executed monthly in conjunction with Apriso solutions, ensuring seamless integration and enhanced operational efficiency.