Progress Manufacturing Software

Robust Manufacturing, Quality Products

Progress helps your team build unique, complex products that have to work really well anywhere in the universe.

Trying to build and operate mission-critical components with spreadsheets, email, and paper travelers is risky.

The process is inefficient and costly, and the information you need is scattered, incomplete, and outdated.

Building unique, complex, and creative products is always rewarding. Seeing it successfully work is amazing -- from deep sea to deep space.

Which tool will you use first?

 

Tools

Manufacturing Planning Sheets

The MPS tool provides functions to create and manage manufacturing planning sheets (a.k.a. travelers), provide real-time MPS status displays, track part shortages, manage mixtures, and perform many other MPS functions. See more 

Controlled Stores

The Controlled Stores tool provides functions to manage purchase requisitions, purchase orders, stock receipt and to issue stock. There are also functions to generate reports, export data, print labels, and perform other stock management activities at up to two physical sites. See more

Calibrated Equipment

The Calibrated Equipment (CAL) tool provides functions to create and manage assets, manage calibration records, manage MPS association records, and other calibrated equipment functions. See more 

 

Document Control

The Document Control tool provides functions to manage drawings, Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), documents, and forms. There are also functions to generate reports, export data and perform other document control activities. See more

Job Tracker

The Job Tracker tool provides functions to create and manage job requests, track resource usage, and costs, and export resource use and cost information. See more


 

Manufacturing Planning Sheets

  • Create and manage MPS records
    • Assign release, operation change, and closure approvers
    • Create and manage individual MPS operation steps, including functions to perform (sign), add, edit, void, move, change assigned person or group, perform change review signatures, in-depth mixture management functions, email notifications, record use of calibrated equipment, record supplemental info, and moreCreate/integrate drawing records
    • Create/integrate drawing records
    • Assign project-specific and general procedures
    • Create and manage inspection and non-conformance report records
    • Create and manage as-run test records
    • Create and manage part requests
    • View issues parts
    • Create and manage installed parts
    • Attach files and manage attachments
    • Attach images to questions, various display options
    • Associate assemblies
    • Create and manage notes
    • Access history tracking records for individual operations and the overall MPS
    • Generate trailer and full MPS PDFs
    • Generate the MPS in XML format
    • Assign special requirements color schemes to MPSs
  • Track MPS record status via real-time displays
  • Search and manage part requests
  • Search and manage inspection records
  • Search and manage installed parts
  • Perform extensive search functions for all record types
  • Allow role-based access to all functions
  • Generate customized reports, export data, perform system management functions, manage support tables, and other functions
  • Provide online help for all functions and roles
Tools

Controlled Stores

  • Generate and manage purchase requisitions, track purchase orders
  • Receive stock, manage stock receiving records, including QA inspection functions
  • Manage and search inventory (stock), including barcode search
  • Issue stock, manage stock issue records and Manufacturing Planning Sheet (MPS) associations
  • Perform extensive search functions for all record types
  • Allow role-based access to all functions
  • Generate customized reports, print various types of labels, export data, perform system management functions, review procurement status of ordered items, return items to vendors, issue shipping tickets, manage support tables, and other functions
  • Provide online help for all functions and roles
Tools

Calibrated Equipment

  • Create and manage calibrated equipment assets
  • Create and manage calibration records for each asset
  • Create and manage MPS association records for each asset
  • Perform extensive search functions for all record types
  • Allow role-based access to all functions
  • Export data, perform system management functions, manage support tables, and other functions
  • Provide online help for all functions and roles
Tools

Document Control

  • Create and manage drawing tracking records and drawing distribution records with MPS links and ECOs
  • Create and manage ECO records, associate ECOs with drawings
  • Create and manage project document records and document distribution records with MPS links
  • Create and manage form records and form issues
  • Perform extensive search functions for all record types
  • Allow role-based access to all functions
  • Perform extensive drawing and document revision functions
  • Generate customized reports, print labels, export data, perform system management functions, manage projects, manage support tables, and other functions
  • Provide online help for all functions and roles
Tools

Job Tracker

  • Create and manage job requests
  • Create and manage resources used for each job request
  • Link job to an MPS
  • Perform extensive search functions for all record types
  • Allow role-based access to all functions
  • Export data, perform system management functions, and other functions
  • Provide online help for all functions and roles
Tools

Architecture

The core “application” components of the Progress™ web application are built on the Java platform, known for its ease of development and deployment on multiple platforms, as well as stability and scalability. The extensive libraries included with the Java Development Kit (JDK) include methods for handling network access, database access (via JDBC), file system I/O, multi-threading, and error handling. There are several web “framework” components that support Progress, including the Apache web server and Tomcat servlet container; both are projects of the Apache Software Foundation and have good reputations in the areas of performance and stability. The Oracle database product provides the database framework component of Progress. Oracle is a reliable, maintainable, and scalable database solution for applications hosting a data store. Recent versions have also improved the backup and recovery process, allowing for easy automation of data backup and improved recovery options, as well as improvements to query capability and database virtualization. Additionally, Progress can be configured to run on a single Oracle database instance or in Oracle’s database cluster environment using Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) technology. All software components, whether built in-house or using existing software, can be deployed on Linux, Solaris, or Windows operating systems. These architectures have proven to be stable and easily maintainable. There is a particularly long-term heritage with Linux and Solaris. Progress was developed using the SwRI Clarity software engineering process.