Labview for MRP

[Riccardo73]

Has anybody developed a simple MRP based on Labview?  I manage a production department of a small composite company and I'm looking for a MRP, which could be flexible enough to follow to continuous change and complexity of the process

Thanks to the integration to the databases, I think that Labview has some features that are very interesting: flexibility of the system, simple integration with measurements (for aeronautic production we need to measure temperature, umidity, oven and autoclave cycles and so on), ability to shape the program according to the production flow.

Thanks a lot

Riccardo Sotgiu

[GerdW]

Hi Riccardo,

do you mind to explain your TLA (3 letter acronym)?

Wikipedia knows a lot of them - and we don't talk about micronized rubber powder, don't we?

[Sam_Sharp]

I am not aware of any - what sort of things are you looking for it to do? I've done some work with storing/reporting production test data in the past.

[Riccardo73]

I mean a real MRP to control the production line. The fact is that, along the line, I need to collect information from the people (timing mainly)and information from the process, which come from sensors (overn, autoclaves, US sensors etc.). That's why I'm wondering if Labview can be used. 

[Riccardo73]

Sorry I've not been clear, I'm looking for a Labview based Manufacturing Resource Planning software. 

[Sam_Sharp]

Yes, LabVIEW could be used - just like any many other languages (e.g. C++, VB etc.)! It would probably consist of an application (or multiple) that would talk to a centralised database.

As I said before - I doubt anything like this already exists in LabVIEW, so you would probably look at having a bespoke system developed.

My initial feeling that since this is a very database heavy application - you might want to use a language more suited to dealing with databases (e.g. web) for the reporting/analysis but then perhaps use software written in LabVIEW to populate the data from the line (e.g. interfacing with hardware).

[Riccardo73]

It was exactly my idea: a backbone written in Labview, which has interfaces with the different databases.