CAMeLEAN^®'s General Assembly facilitates a holistic view of product and process design as integral components of the overall product lifecycle and enables product design to be sensitive to process constraints and capabilities. With its extensive collaboration capabilities, it allows engineers, designers, managers and operatives to contribute towards designing an effective Assembly Process Plan. It visualizes the sequential flow of processes within the Assembly line and allows users to define the process relationships and logical associations between key components of the assembly operations i.e. resources, personnel and product parts. By employing a template metaphor, it allows the capture and reuse of Best Practices and assists Manufacturing Companies in their ISO Compliance with its complete revision tracking system. It enables simultaneous Product, Resource and Process planning and facilitates configuration management and Plant Layout Optimization.