Assembly Planning with Infor LN

As part of a successful migration from Infor LN to CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise and its further development, many companies face the challenge of mapping complex assembly processes in a stable and transparent manner.

When you need to manage product variety, cycle times, and material availability all at once, traditional production planning isn’t enough. With Infor LN, our project experience, and our proprietary applications—Enterprise Assembly Job Control for assembly and Enterprise Manufacturing Job Control for production-related feedback—you can achieve transparency, process reliability, and stability in your assembly operations.

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Do you also face these challenges?

Effectively implement Just-in-Sequence (JIS)
Maintain stable assembly line operations despite a wide variety of variants
Implement batch size 1 economically in assembly
Make materials, drawings, and feedback available directly on the assembly line
Reduce manual coordination, media breaks, and incorrect postings

What you can achieve with us

Greater stability on the assembly line

Greater transparency by order, station, and processing status

Faster response to deviations and rework

Greater process reliability for complex assembly operations

Practical expansion of Infor LN rather than standalone solutions alongside the ERP

Why Assembly Planning Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage

In many companies, the real problem isn’t planning in the ERP system, but rather implementation on the production line. The greater the variety of variants, the more critical sequencing, material provision, access to drawings, and feedback become in the actual production context.

Especially in line production, assembly lines with a high proportion of variants, and scenarios involving batch sizes as small as 1, traditional production logic is often no longer sufficient. In such cases, a solution is needed that is specifically designed for the requirements of assembly—including station-based control, robust sequencing, and digital support directly on the shop floor.

Traditional production	Installation Management
General production sequences	Precise sequence planning
Focus on Manufacturing	Focus on assembly lines
Very little variant logic	Processes with a wide range of variations
Standard Production Data Collection	Worker guidance at stations

Why Infor LN Assembly Management offers more for the assembly line than a traditional production module

The requirements in assembly differ fundamentally from those of traditional parts or mass production. In cycle-based assembly, material flows, work sequences, variants, and feedback must be closely synchronized.

That is exactly what Infor LN Assembly Management is designed for: it helps companies plan and reliably execute complex assembly processes involving fixed stations, defined cycle times, and a wide variety of products in a structured manner.

What requirements Infor LN Assembly Management addresses in the assembly line

Precise sequence planning

for clock-cycle-based assembly processes rather than rough production sequences

Control via fixed line stations and

for a robust assembly line

Flexible bills of materials and workstation-based material control

so that materials are made available exactly where and when they are needed in the assembly process

Support for a wide variety of products

in flow production and order-based assembly environments

Automatic adjustment of dependent supply lines

when the order is changed, to ensure that rescheduling can be managed

Accurate post-project costing

better cost control in the assembly process

Optimized material flows and just-in-time delivery

to reduce inventory and manage supply to the production line based on demand

Where companies hit a wall without a solution designed for easy installation

The traditional production module reaches its limits especially when cycle times, sequence planning, flexible bills of materials, and the synchronization of dependent lines all come into play. Assembly management addresses precisely these issues and creates the conditions necessary to ensure that the assembly line can not only be planned but also controlled reliably under real-world conditions.

Our solutions for shop floor processes in production and assembly

With Enterprise Assembly EA 7 Infor, we support assembly-related operations on primary and secondary assembly lines all the way through to the finished product. The application provides order-specific information directly within the operational context and creates greater transparency, process reliability, and stability in the assembly process.

For prefabrication, we offer Enterprise Manufacturing EM 4 Infor, our own solution for digital status updates and information provision.

Enterprise Assembly EA 4 Infor: Mobile worker guidance directly on the assembly line

EA 4 Infor is designed to meet the needs of the assembly process. The application supports workers directly on primary and secondary assembly lines, providing the current assembly order, follow-up orders, line station, assemblies, tasks, variants, and other order-related information within the context of the assembly process.

What EA 4 Infor specifically enables

Assembly order allocation based on production lines
Structured management of assemblies and tasks in the assembly process
Availability of variant information, drawings, and options directly at the production line
Support for rework and material-related follow-up processes in the assembly context
Reliable status updates in cycle-based assembly processes
All data is reported to the ERP system in real time

EA 4 Infor excels particularly in situations where a wide variety of products are assembled on the production line and information needs to be available at the right workstation at exactly the right moment.

The Benefits of EA 4 Infor for You

No media breaks during assembly

Complete process reliability for feedback

Immediate response to deviations

Always up-to-date order data through constant communication with the ERP system via REST API

High availability thanks to the integrated offline mode

This is how the EM 4 Infor and EA 4 Infor are interlinked

In EM 4 Infor, a production order is being processed in pre-production.

Parts or assemblies are manufactured and digitally tracked.

These components are sent to the assembly line.

At EA 4 Infor, they are installed on main or secondary lines as part of the assembly order.

This creates a seamless digital process from prefabrication to assembly—closely integrated with Infor LN and designed to meet the requirements of discrete manufacturing.

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Thomas HeinkeHead of sales department

+49 371 2371-214

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