CIS of Troniks ("Tronix")

General description

Appointment, general description of functions, functional structure

1 Introduction

This document gives the general description of the TRONIX system for manufacturing enterprise. In process of development and completion of a system the document is constantly updated.

2 Purposes of implementation of TRONIX

2.1 A strategic objective of implementation of TRONIX at the enterprise is production cost reduction, acceleration of speed of construction or repair of the ships and vessels and also reduction of terms of preparation of production, improvement of product quality and, as a result, decrease in cost value, increase arrived also formation of competitive advantages of the enterprise.

2.2 Implementation of technologies of work with use of the uniform electronic description of a product at all stages of preparation of production, production and acceptance of finished goods. The electronic description should become the only source of information on a product – the standard of the enterprise, with a possibility of ensuring data exchange with partners and clients.

2.3 Information support of work of designers and technologists by uniform relevant bases of the normalized conventional components and products, bases of materials, the equipment, tool, consumption rates of materials and labor costs.

2.4 The full-function inventory control providing as storage of the nomenclature with a binding to projects and accounting orders, and "boiler" accounting of often used materials and products.

2.5 Information support of services of the financial and economic block during the developing and control of budgets for separate projects and on the enterprise in general; financial planning and control; financial and managerial analysis.

2.6 Use of typification of design, technology and management processes, automation at their repeated application that allows to save up "knowledge base" of the enterprise and to receive an essential gain of labor productivity in production preparation.

3 General TRONIX functions

The TRONIX system at the present stage is the system of the class MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning) with the ERP elements (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PDM (Product Data Management) of systems specialized under features of the Russian shipbuilding and document flow (ESKD and industry standards).

According to a production cycle of the ship-building enterprise in TRONIX functional modules – the implementing following groups of functions are selected:

3.1 Production preparation

• acceptance of information from the designer in the electronic structured formats of data
• management of documents and engineering specification of a product
• management of the enterprise of electronic archive
• change management
• project management
• management of technology data
• creation and management of a production and technology network model of construction of the ships and vessels

3.2 Preparation of repair production

• formation of arrays of RKD at their absence by the repaired ship, the vessel
• formation of repair sheets and network diagram of repair
• cost determination of points of the repair sheet and subsequent control

3.3 Planning

• planning of building slip production (planning of shipyard)
• planning of small-lot production (medical sanitary station)
• planning of repair work
• work planning on TOS and the equipment
• materials requirement planning and equipment
• planning of labor resources

3.4 Material supply

• requirements analysis in Inventories on sets of orders and purchase planning
• Tracking of security of the Inventories plant on each position taking into account existence in the warehouses which are in production, ordered, paid in way, etc.
• purchase management of Inventories for needs of the main and auxiliary production and REN (including the MRO and MK)
• tracking of purchases of Inventories
• Acceptance of the purchased Inventories
• Shipment of Inventories (products, excesses)
• Accounting and planning of waste
• Tracking of expenditure of Inventories on regulations
• Timely, identification of deviations of actual expenses from planned (normative) for the purpose of acceptance operational managerial solutions (including on elimination of the arisen disproportions)

3.5 Material accounting

• accounting of warehouse stocks in natural and monetary value
• accounting of material costs of the main production on projects, accounting orders, planned and accounting units

3.6 Economic analysis

• calculation of planned and actual cost of the order
• cost analysis on purchase of Inventories (to order, for the period, etc.)
• the analysis of the actual material costs in value term
• stock analysis of Inventories in value term
• Assessment of actual cost of products

3.7 Support functions

• maintaining reference books of TRONIX
• personnel management
• control of executive discipline
• control of information in processes of design-technology preparation of production, planning and supply

4 Functions of system modules

The user provides access to the TRONIX resources through the specialized the automated jobs (AJ) - the system modules focused on certain employee groups of the enterprise. Thus, the automated workplace gives to the user this or that set of systems capabilities (functions). This feature set, if necessary, can be changed by administrative units of TRONIX.

TRONIX consists of the following main modules: 4.1 Tronix Catalog

• management of the normative reference information
• Qualifier of materials and products

o Support of hierarchy of the qualifier of any degree of enclosure o Layer management of access for users to different branches of the qualifier o Support of full (compound) name of a product or material. An ability to manage structure of the name for each branch of the reference book. o Support of different sets of attributes of the nomenclature for each branch of the qualifier o Management of qualifiers of attributes o Support of the user qualifiers providing fast viewing and search of "the" nomenclature

• The reference book of materials, purchased products, assemblies, medical sanitary station (products on the depersonalized, front and project drawings), the equipment, tools and the industrial equipment

o Support of structure of products of any degree of enclosure o Viewing complete structure of a product, including enclosed o Viewing applicability of a product or material in all design documents, PUE, documents of the movement o Support of old and new designations of products o Unique codification of all used nomenclature o Management of coefficients of transfer of quantity from some units in others with support of automatic translation of the same units of measure (for example: meters, centimeters, millimeters) o Search in names (simple and compound), to designations, set of attributes o Sorting according to any attribute o Support of the protocol of changes according to each nomenclature o Support of own restrictive list of the nomenclature (mini-reference book), with a possibility of its use in other applications of a system o Management of technical specifications on technology equipment, a binding to it of possible parameters of the materials processed on it

• Auxiliary lists, reference books and qualifiers

o The list of material substitution, applied on each project (replacements under protocols, without correction of RKD) o The list of replacement of nomenclature codes of the designer by the codes which are applied at the enterprise at automatic information processing o reference book of coefficients of transfer of units of measure of quantity on each nomenclature o the qualifier of types of coverings, including the translated table of designations of the coverings applied by different designers o qualifier of professions

• Reference book by partners

o Possibility of classification and search of partners in different signs

• Qualifier of documents (ESKD)

o Support of hierarchical classification o Support of old and new designations of classification groups

• International qualifier of work types (SFI)

o Support of hierarchical classification and cross-references

• Qualifier of premises

4.2 Tronix Document

• management of design documentation and structure of products
• Opening and project description (ship, vessel)
• Management of the list of design documentation

o All types of design documents (maker sheets, sheets of the order, specification, sheet of ZIP and supply, etc.) o Control of receipt of documentation from the designer o Reconciliation of existence (validity) of documents for construction orders o Management of structure of the document (specification) in the structured type  Maintaining any hierarchy level of headings in the document  A binding everyone making (position) to the reference book of the nomenclature, premises, coverings, nodes o Management of all design technical requirements and process parameters (pressure upon durability, density, sign of sewing, etc.) at any level of the document. o A binding of electronic images of documents in any formats

• List of premises of the project

o Technical and geometrical characteristics of premises

• processing of the transport files arriving from the designer (the protocol is implemented and approved on real projects of TsMKB Almaz, SPKB, CDB Vympel, CB Aysberg, Volga-Caspian by the PKB, etc.)

o verification of the nomenclature on compliance to reference books of codes, designations, units of measurements, premises, coverings

• change management

o possibility of viewing change history of each component of the document o management of notifications, installation of their communication with changeable documents

• Work with applicability of nomenclature positions

o A possibility of obtaining the complete list of applicability on projects, accounting orders o A possibility of carrying out automatic design replacements in the documents or positions selected on applicability

• release of design documents

o sheets of the order o specifications o sheets of applicability according to design documents o , etc.

• Additional opportunities

o Copying of documents in the project or in other project together with all descriptions of a design part of the document and together with technology descriptions of PUE connected with this document. o Project "cloning" at serial construction at which both the design, and technology project description, including the sequences of works repeats.

• management of structure of products of medical sanitary station, nodes (isolation, fastening, etc.)
• processing of transport files with structure of the products or nodes arriving from the designer
• Management of design material substitutions and consumption rates in products
• release of design documents

4.3 Tronix ACAD

– communication of drawings of ACAD with design documents

• Work with data in the environment of ACAD

o Creation and document retrieval of the project o Creation and search of sections and positions of the document o Binding of positions to subjects of the drawing o Data entry about Inventories of a position from reference books of Tronix o Input of units of measure, weight and quantity

• Viewing data on positions of drawings

o Selection of the selected positions on the drawing o Data retrieval about a position of the selected subject of the drawing

4.4 Tronix Technology � management of technology information and structure of works

• description standard technology and business of processes

o Reference book of standard work types of all productions of the enterprise o Descriptions of the parametrized standard technology processes on work types o Descriptions parametrized standard business of enterprise management processes o Descriptions of standard technology processes of production of products of medical sanitary station

• Processing of RKD

o The indication of technology regulations on materials o Putting of process parameters o Separation the KD component according to technology of works (DI, the metalwork equipment, the joiner's equipment, removable, fixed, etc.).

• formation and maintaining planned and accounting units, saturation by their resources

o binding of positions, headings or documents RKD of shipyard to PUE o determination of technology allowances, material substitutions o work type binding (standard technology process) o binding of PUE to the construction order, accounting order, article of SFI o formation based on the TPP of the actual technology processes of production of parts and constructions by all types of productions with determination of a route of the step-by-step movement and change of their status (crude material, procurement, a semi-finished product, assembly, a finished product) o determination of labor input (regulation) of PUE with breakdown by professions of the main workers or manually, or is automated through parameters and standards, or automatic calculation on the basis of the description of the standard technology process (STP) of data of RKD and process parameters o determination of duration of accomplishment of PUE o calculation of welding materials o determination manually or automatic calculation of the nomenclature and quantity of auxiliary materials

• formation and maintaining production and technology network model of the order, binding to the schedule

o Formation (at a stage of contract study and data of the engineering design) the enlarged works both in Troniksa, and in other project management systems with a binding of resources from preliminary project documents (sheets of the order) for determination of planned requirement and the diagram of purchases of Inventories. o Installation of communications and the sequences of works (network diagram) as at the bottom level (works of sections, transactions), and at the top level (PUE, the enlarged works), as in manual, and automatically on the basis of the TPP. o Comparison of two construction orders on compliance to the nomenclature of PUE, providing, etc.

• Control of completion of works on production preparation (confirmation of the termination of the description of work, regulation, transfer on planning).
• release of technology documents

o Route process charts o Material cards o Cards of a complete set o Vedomosti of controlled transactions o By repair orders of the sheet of acceptance of the order for completeness and dismantling sheets o , Etc.

• process description of production of products of medical sanitary station

o putting of a route on workshops and sections

• task of technology regulations and requirements
• release of technology documents

o Technology dresses on production of products of medical sanitary station with a route of the movement o The Standard Technology Dresses (STD) on production of products of medical sanitary station with a route of the movement o The automated technology dresses on the basis of the typical technological work order o , Etc.

4.5 Tronix Material � management of supply with material resources

• Management of a part of the nomenclature reference book

o Maintaining the price label - the nomenclator with an opportunity to determine the price depending on a batch, delivery date, etc. signs. o Management of attributes "It Is Recommended to Purchase", "It Is Not Made", for restriction of a possibility of use of the nomenclature in new construction

• The analysis of deficit of Inventories on the basis of automatic calculation of requirement of the plant for Inventories for all orders and works. Requirements can be analyzed in the type unrolled on terms. It is possible to vary purchasing amount from total requirement of the plant to requirement on the project, the construction order, the accounting order, a period, specific work.
• maintaining information on purchases of Inventories (agreements) and tracking of their status (payments, delivery dates, etc.). Automatic accounting of this information when calculating need for Inventories (accounting in ensuring the works beginning after the delivery date).
• formation of receipt documents Inventories on a warehouse

o with a possibility of a binding to accounting orders

• control of issue of Inventories to order
• management of a business remaining balance
• stock analysis of Inventories at the plant and detection of above-standard excesses and illiquid assets
• maintaining reference book of suppliers
• Control functions by supply process
• fixing of the nomenclature to contractors
• analysis of loading of contractors
• requirement analysis in Inventories and its changes on contractors
• Release of documents

o Purchase agreement Inventories o Goods receipt note o Receipt order o Invoice o Commodity-transport delivery note, etc. o The choice of requirement on the project, the accounting order, division o , etc.

4.6 Tronix Inventory � management of an inventory control

• acceptance of Inventories on storage
• holiday of Inventories
• accounting of existence of Inventories in an accountable warehouse
• inventory of a warehouse (with a possibility of use of data terminals and bar code stickers)
• ensuring storage and issue of completely delivery items by the structure (complexes of the main machines, arms, communications, etc.)
• release of documents of the movement Inventories

o Internal delivery note o Intra shop requirement o Return from processed o Delivery note on a holiday on the party o , etc.

• completing of Inventories under a certain work on requests of workshops stocks of one or several warehouses
• release of documents

o Delivery note on finished goods o Delivery note on a set o , etc.

4.7 Tronix Planning � management of production planning of the enterprise

• formation of the perspective plan (for the period) constructions of the order
• automatic (in the presence of communications between PUE) formation of the operating plan (for a month) taking into account loading of workshops and the current execution of works and also changes of the perspective plan
• Automatic check of security of planned activities with warehouse stocks and "goods in way"
• tracking of execution of works
• formation of planned documents

o obligatory nomenclature of works o monthly plans of workshops o necessary works under closing of other works (UP/USh) o , etc.

• formation of the perspective plan of the production of medical sanitary station at the plant coordinated to the plan of shipyard
• automatic generation of works on production of starts of medical sanitary station

o starts on a batch of the same products on all order o starts on products under requirement term on a product in the diagram of construction of shipyard o start of products under the general work program of the plant (warehouse shop)

• Automatic generation of dresses on production with formation of routes of parts, labor inputs of a tsekhokooperation and srokovy materials requirement and component parts
• formation of the operating plan taking into account loading of workshops and the current execution of works and also changes of need for medical sanitary station
• tracking of execution of works
• release of documents

o the agreement for counteragency works o selections of products by different parameters o Needs and plan for materials o Needs and plan for component parts o Plan of workshops for tsekhoperedacha o Requirement and plan of workshop for materials o Requirement and plan of workshop for component parts o Requests and delivery notes on materials and component parts from a warehouse o Delivery notes on receipt of finished products on a warehouse o Other technology and transfer documents

4.8 Tronix Operational � operational planning and delivery of Inventories under the plan

• Formation of the operating plan of works by builders
• Confirmation by supply of the fact of the agreement, payment, delivery, delivery date
• Adjustment of the work plan (material substitutions, removal of unsecured)

4.9 Tronix Workshop - management of operational activity of workshop

• Formation of electronic requests under the planned works
• Control of security of requests with the nomenclature of a warehouse
• job sharing on shop contractors
• tracking of a status of shop stocks of Inventories and formation of documents on providing workshop and separate works as resources
• tracking of execution of works and corresponding costs
• closing of works
• accounting of the actual labor input on PUE on crews (workers)
• Release of documents

o the list of requirements of Inventories by the set parameters – on premises, on systems, on constructive group, on work types, on construction areas, according to drawings, taking into account existence in a warehouse o report of workshop on accomplishment of the plan o the request for a complete set under the plan of workshop or under PUE o Delivery note on return o Delivery note on finished goods

4.10 Tronix Dispatching

• industrial process control of workshop
• formation of daily step-by-step brigade plans
• the daily analysis of loading by all types of resources
• tracking of execution of the plan (scheduling of works)
• maintaining report of execution of real-time operations

4.11 Tronix Analytics � economic cost analysis and stocks

• calculation of planned order cost regarding material costs for formation of the corresponding budgets
• cost analysis on purchase of Inventories (to order, for the period, etc.)
• the analysis of the actual material costs to order in value term for adjustment of the corresponding budgets
• stock analysis of Inventories in value term for inventory management and determination of parameters of regulations of stocks
• release of documents
• Distribution of labor input by professions by the project

4.12 Tronix Personnel

• Management of personnel records of personnel
• management of an organization structure of the enterprise
• maintaining personnel structure of the enterprise
• formation of standard documents

4.13 Tronix WorkFlow

• management of operational work of divisions
• receiving tasks of divisions from a management subsystem production
• task allocation on contractors
• ensuring interaction of divisions for the solution of operational issues ("electronic memos")
• Use of standard processes of Tronix Technology subsystem
• control of loading of contractors
• status monitoring of works (the notification watching a work progress)
• tracking of history of each task
• fixing of results of execution in a management subsystem production

4.14 Tronix Interaction

• organization of interaction of the enterprises
• fixing of questions between the organizations (CB plant, the plant customer)
• distribution of questions between contractors
• control of the course of problem solving
• the analysis of quantity and quality of questions and answers in different aspects

4.15 Tronix Repository � Electronic archive of design, technology and managerial documentation

• Support of document revisions and history of its changes
• Access rights restriction to electronic archive
• Protection against changes and removals of documents
• Inheritance of history when copying

4.16 Tronix Metrology � metrological accounting

• accounting of existence of measuring instruments and control (SI)
• work planning on checking and status monitoring of SI
• accounting of data on checking and about SI status
• Calculation of the annual diagram of metrological control
• formation of the different reporting for plant's management and higher metrological bodies

4.17 Tronix Browser � subsystem of viewing information of CIS of "Troniks"

• Viewing all basic information categories in the single interface
• Disclosure of the connected categories of data to information of the bottom level
• Transition to adjustment of data in the main forms of a system
• Filtering and data retrieval on a sample

4.18 Tronix Administrator

• management of the rights
• connection of users to TRONIX
• investment of users with basic rights for work in a system
• formation of categories of users and reference of users to the corresponding category
• setup of document flow and document type
• determination of the license of category of users on accomplishment of certain functions during the work on automated workplaces
• authority delegation to administrators of user groups with an opportunity:

o investment of users of the corresponding group with some rights within the competence o accomplishment of some special or especially responsible functions according to specialization of the administered user group

4.19 Tronix Control

• the automated control of information

Control of information in processes of design-technology preparation of production, planning and supply:

• management of control procedures of information

o Last notifications according to documents in a day o The number of the documents RKD loaded into a system but which are not processed by designers o The list of medical sanitary station prepared for generation o Lack of a route, structure or labor input of medical sanitary station at the positions of the reference book applied in documents RKD o The report of number of PUE with exceeding of requirements for terms o The positions of specifications which are not tied to PUE (not having a route) o The technical sets which do not have labor input o Etc. (in total more than 50 procedures)

• management of mailing of results of verification of information on e-mail (frequency, targeting).

4.20 Tronix EXP-IMP

• module of export/import of data to TRONIX
• Management of automatic procedures of transfer/acceptance of information from other automated systems (accounting, financial management, PDM, etc.).

o Interaction of automated systems is performed on the basis of the description of a logical structure of the transmitted data and compliance to its physical structure of the interacting systems.

4.21 Modules of import of data from CAD systems

• «Tribon»

o The module of formation of transport files on the structured documents o Module of obtaining information on geometry of pipes (branches of pipelines)

• «Foran»

o The module of reconciliation of the Foran and Tronix databases on structure and structure of the applied nomenclature a product component, for the organization of control of parallel project development and preparation of production

4.22 Interaction modules with technical means

• The data exchange module with the data terminal of barcodes for carrying out the automated inventory of a warehouse
• Connection of executive systems of managing directors:

o Pipe-bending machines o Measured lines of cutting o Assembly stands o Etc.

4.23 Data exchange modules with project management systems

• «MS Project»

o The module of unloading of the Tronix project or its part for the analysis or documentation o The module of loading of the project (project changes) in a DB of Troniks

• «Spider»

o The module of loading of the Spider project in the Tronix project

• «Primavera»

o The module of unloading of the Tronix project or its part for the analysis or documentation

4.24 Additional functions of a system

• Recording of changes according to all major types of information with a possibility of viewing results of changes, their date and time, authors.
• The data preparation module according to specifications from text documents allowing to organize massive information input on earlier constructed projects of a large number of unskilled contractors

5 Principles of creation of TRONIX

In a system the following software and methodical solutions are used:

• all data which collect and used in TRONIX are stored in the single database organized by means of the Oracle DataBase database management system;
• role access control to data and applications (change of the automated workplace functions according to requirements of user groups);
• technology the client/server or three-unit architecture with the application server and the Web interface;
• modular structure of the software;
• identification and recording of actions of the user;
• graphic user interface;
• an open data structure and exchange protocols with external systems;
• means of designing of applications (Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer);
• uniform software requirements of jobs.

6 Key advantages of TRONIX

• absolutely ratio, best in the industry, price/quality;
• low total cost of ownership;
• high efficiency;
• specialization under shipbuilding (a system is created and developed by specialists shipbuilders);
• fulfilled, not requiring big resources, technologies of implementation, training, a support and maintenance;
• the highest implementation speed in the industry (it is necessary to design and write nothing "from scratch", a system is in a type, ready to an immediate eksluatation);
• possibility of remote administration and maintenance;
• the amplest opportunities for integration into any other software products;
• a possibility of creation of add-on modules according to terms of reference of the customer;
• the unconditional reliability and excellent stability checked by years of operation in the different organizations;
• unsurpassed scalability (our system works both at small, and at averages, and at large enterprises);
• a possibility of free use at one enterprise of any necessary number of automated workplaces;
• a possibility of free receiving modules, functions and so forth, developed for other enterprises of the industry;
• a possibility of creation based on our system of a common information space between geographically remote enterprises and the organizations;
• possibility of consultations and methodical support of colleagues shipbuilders of the leading ship-building enterprises of Russia;
• at implementation - lack of need of radical redrawing of business processes at the enterprise;
• at implementation - lack of need of large-scale computer retrofitting of the enterprise.

A system is implemented and works at the Russian enterprises of shipbuilding:

• JSC Baltic Shipyard
• JSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf
• JSC Sea Plant Almaz
• JSC Nevsky Design Bureau
• JSC Yaroslavl Shipbuilding Plant
• JSC Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Plant