Customer Stories: How We Use PICO Templates & Variants for Digital Work Instructions

Описание: Top tips to save engineering time by using PICO Templates & Process Variants! These features make it easy and fast to manage updates across a large set of work instructions—without recreating everything from scratch.

In this customer story, Greg Whitt, Continuous Improvement Engineer at MORryde, and Chris Stewart, Manufacturing Engineer at Pollington Machine Tool, share how they use PICO’s templates and variants to streamline digital work instructions and adapt processes efficiently.

See how customizable templates ensure consistency, while process variants provide flexibility for handling product variations, language translations, and manufacturing changes—all without added complexity.

Some key use cases include:
🔹 Differentiating between left-hand, right-hand parts
🔹 Creating translated work instructions in English and Spanish
🔹 Managing shipping labels for a large number of part numbers
🔹 Re-ordering steps in a set of work instructions and applying changes across multiple processes
🔹 Assigning different torque values for various part numbers following the same build process

Key Takeaways:
💡 Templates for Consistency – Standardized work instructions ensure operators follow the correct steps every time.
💡 Variants for Flexibility – Easily adapt instructions for product variations, translations, and process updates.
💡 Improved Efficiency & Quality – Digital instructions reduce errors, provide real-time updates, and simplify training.

Resources
✅Learn more about how templates and process variants work: https://www.picomes.com/resources/blo...
✅ Download: How to Write Effective Work Instructions by PICO: https://bit.ly/40i4hUT
✅ Sign up for a free-forever cloud-based deployment of PICO digital work instructions: https://bit.ly/3AgEfXD

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