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

In practice, prefabrication, material flow, and assembly must work together seamlessly. That is precisely why we use Enterprise Manufacturing Job Control (EMJC) and Enterprise Assembly Job Control (EAJC)—two applications that cover different stages of the process and complement each other when used together.

The logic is simple: EMJC manufactures components. EAJC assembles components.

While EMJC supports digital feedback and information sharing in prefabrication, EAJC oversees the assembly process on primary and secondary assembly lines all the way through to the finished product.

Enterprise Manufacturing Job Control: Digital Production Feedback

EMJC supports production-related processes in prefabrication and manufacturing departments. The application provides a view of ERP production orders directly at the workstation and links them to drawings, item information, and confirmation data. This enables parts and assemblies to be manufactured in a more digital, transparent, and efficient manner.

What EMJC specifically supports

Make production orders visible digitally and on mobile devices at the workplace
Initiate completion notifications and reorder requests directly from the shop floor in real time and transfer them immediately to the ERP system
Make drawings, bills of materials, and product images available within the order context
Support production-related feedback across multiple workstations simultaneously
Document pre-production processes in a system-integrated and traceable manner

EMJC is particularly relevant for companies that want to further digitize their prefabrication processes and bring production data acquisition (PDC) processes closer to the actual production floor.

The Benefits of EMJC for You

Streamlined BDE processes

Instant access to order-related information

Less manual adjustment

Full transparency of order status through constant communication with the ERP system via REST API

Better support for shop floor processes closely tied to production

High availability thanks to the integrated offline mode

Enterprise Assembly Job Control: Mobile worker guidance directly on the assembly line

EAJC 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 EAJC 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

EAJC 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 EAJC 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 EMJC and EAJC are interlinked

In EMJC, 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 EAJC, 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

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