The document discusses issues with using MS Excel for engineering data across multiple factories, including siloed data that cannot be easily shared and delays in product launches. It describes how a system called Assembly Planner facilitates collaboration within and between factories by providing a shared database and engineering tools and enabling standardized workflows and access to engineering process data across the entire enterprise. This accelerates new product launches and transfers while also communicating best practices between sites.

1. MS Excel
Data Silos within Factories
• Data cannot be easily shared between engineers within the
same factory, nor with sister factories or corporate.
• Reliance on MS Excel for engineering planning delays new product
launches, prevents concurrent engineering, and affects data quality.

2. Assembly Planner
Collaboration Within Factories
• Factories benefit from a single set of reusable process data, located in
a sharable database system with integrated engineering tools.
• Assembly Planner facilitates collaboration among engineers within the
same plant, and helps standardize work flows and outputs across plants.

3. Assembly Planner
Collaboration Across the Enterprise
• Data access can be granted for users beyond each factory, allowing
engineering process data to be shared across the enterprise.
• Sharing data between factories accelerates the launch or transfer of
products, and communicates standard best practices between sites.