Tecnomatix 9 improves planning productivity of manufacturing planning processes. At the same time, Tecnomatix drives manufacturing productivity in many areas, including optimization and commissioning of robotics and automation, manual workplace configuration, and optimal placement of equipment and material flow. Manufacturing planning is a critical activity within the part manufacturing process. When done well, manufacturing planning can boost your production performance, shorten production time, eliminate costly errors, and even help to improve computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tool utilization. Best in-class manufacturing operations are more productive because they use manufacturing planning software to define and validate the part manufacturing process digitally, share tooling and resource libraries between planning and shop floor departments, and connect the plan data directly to shop floor systems such as DNC (Direct Numerical Control) and tool management. Tecnomatix’s Part Planning and Validation solution helps you define better manufacturing plans and synchronize planning data with the shop floor. Tecnomatix Part Planning and Validation manages all product and and related process information to help manufacturing engineers, CNC programmers, tooling managers, machinists and other members of the organization to share work instructions and work as a team.