visTable^® – Digital Factory Planning Software

visTable® – Plan Clearly. Decide Confidently.

visTable® is software for digital factory planning. It brings together 2D/3D factory layouts, material flow analyses, and planning alternatives in a shared digital factory model. Planning teams can design new production and logistics areas and optimize existing operations – without extensive CAD expertise. This enables teams to quickly visualize changes, compare alternatives using key performance indicators, and make informed decisions about production and logistics.

From Floor Plan to Digital Factory Model

Build a scale model of your factory using existing layout and CAD data alongside customizable objects from the model library. See how machines, workstations, storage areas, and transport routes fit together spatially. This creates a clear foundation for further planning and coordination.

Plan and Evaluate Changes Quickly

Develop alternative layouts and assess their impact before relocating equipment or modifying factory spaces. Connecting layouts with material flow helps you evaluate spatial changes in the context of production and logistics processes.

Understand Material Flows and Identify Unnecessary Travel

Visualize material flows directly within your layout. Sankey and spaghetti diagrams make transport relationships, volumes, and routes easy to understand. Identify where material handling requires excessive effort and which arrangements could shorten travel distances.

Compare Alternatives Using Key Performance Indicators

Which layout makes better use of available space? How do travel distances and material handling effort change? Compare planning alternatives using consistent evaluation criteria. This helps you explain your recommendations and prepare informed investment and operational decisions.

Plan Together and Align on Decisions

Bring factory planning, production, logistics, lean management, and company leadership together around a shared digital factory model. Clear 2D and 3D views make it easier to discuss requirements, understand alternatives, and develop a shared understanding of the plan.

Typical Use Cases

• Planning new production and logistics areas
• Optimizing existing factory layouts
• Planning expansions, relocations, and site consolidations
• Assembly and intralogistics planning
• Optimizing material flow and implementing improvements identified through value stream analysis

visTable® is designed for manufacturing companies, planning consultancies, universities, and research institutions. The software runs locally on Windows.

Explore visTable® with your own planning project: start a free 14-day trial or schedule a personalized live demo.

visTABLE® supports you in the following tasks:

• plant and layout planning
• material flow analysis
• assembly planning
• scenario planning
• route optimization (spaghetti diagram)
• setup workshops
• 3D planning
• provision planning
• logistics process optimization
• implementation of results from value stream mapping

Integrated planning functions support you in validating your layouts. Simultaneous editing of layouts by several people, from anywhere in the world, saves costs and time. Through object-based drag & drop, you generate complex layouts in a timely manner and create transport networks, record material flows. Afterwards, visTABLE® validates every proposed change with regard to material flow, space requirements and safety distance. The immediate display of the layout clarifies many practical concerns before the implementation decision.

The open library includes around 1500 scalable models from the areas of buildings, production, assembly, storage, personnel, means of transport, robots, cranes, areas, outdoor areas, etc. Of course, you can create and import individual models using CAD or 3D programs (e.g. Solid Works®, 3ds Max®, CATIA®, etc.).

Features (extract)

• intuitive operating concept
• material flow relationships and transport networks
• analysis and optimization of material flows
• real-time sank display in the layout
• arrangement optimization
• 3D visualization up to the connection of VR systems
• dimensioning and measuring functions
• collision control
• scalable and open model library

In addition to desktop operation, the software is tailored to modern touch screens and thus also ensures future-proofing for your planning processes.

Resilient simulations with specialist software require a large amount of data - visTABLE® already evaluates the material flow on the basis of three parameters and provides immediate visual feedback. visTABLE® does not require experts to operate it. By using visTABLE® the users become experts and can fully concentrate on the project planning.