Production management
- ERP connection to slitters, welding and finishing lines.
- Monitoring of production lines in real time.
- Automatic recording of the duration of all production line statuses (downtime, setup, production).
- Electronic management of production orders (requirements, cycle, operations, product)
- Machine downtime analysis
- Precise costs with reliable data by Cost Centre, Production Order, Article, etc.
- Real-time production dashboards, certain and shared (set to the maximum limit, performance, efficiencies, productivity by machine and department).
Production management
- Non-compliance Management in an integrated form and directly in line.
- Management of raw materials compatibility rules on loading.
- Precise waste analysis with 2nd choice management by production order, article.
- Integration with the SPC module (control plans and measurements integrated with production)
- Specimen identification and complete integration with the Test Lab.
- Exportability to Excel of all information for local processing.
Logistics management
- Management system updated automatically on inventory.
- Evidence of the status of materials.
- Evidence of allocation of all materials (WIP).
- Blockage of materials according to its status.
- Prevention of handling errors.
- Real-time visibility of inventory by Steel Make, Dimensions, Warehouse Bay, Production Order, Article.
- Full automation of shipments, transport and deliveries.
- Visibility of the location of bundles to be loaded for each production order.
- Real-time inventory of all warehouses.
Technological product tracking
- Barcode identification of each production order (coil, strip of bundle of pipes)
- Tracking of each order by batch/heat/series.
- Search for bundles belonging to a heat, series, batch.
- Associations of events in the field with a heat / series (SPC measurements, downtimes, non-conformities, etc)
Welding/finishing line SPC (Statistical Process Control)
- Control Plans by article/customer.
- Feedback plans/control methods in computerized form, no need for paper and paperwork.
- Automatic generation of requests and specimen identification.
- Full computerization and integration with the test lab.
- Product / Process / Attribute management.
- XR / XS / XMR / XNP (Cp, Cpk, Sigma, etc.) control charts.
- Statistics for the various parameters measured by heat, steel make, dimensions, etc.
Benefits
- Elimination of paper and paperwork.
- Automatic field reporting of any out of range (allocation error or defect?).
- Univocal information, that is “repeatable” and constantly updated.
- Run-time control of welding process data and heat treatment, associated with the product.
- Field control datasheets.
- Definition of different control plans by product and location (standardization of controls for similar products).
- Data collection and immediate availability.
- Predefined and immediate data analysis.
- Easy data retrieval for further processing/analysis.
- Immediate release of shipping material.
- Quickly available laboratory information.
- Test lab data duly organised and analyzable.
- Clear and understandable reporting.
- “automatic” product certification.
- Production orders “by characteristic”
- Identification/traceability of the entire product via barcode (from coils through strips, semi-finished and finished pipes, and individual specimens for the test lab)
- Accurate recording of downtimes.
Case History
Arvedi Tubi Acciaio
For Arvedi Tubi Acciaio, Stain has developed an ad hoc project, based on the Stain+ Suite, i.e. the complete and integrated software for the manufacturing industry, from which a specific verticalized module for the Control of Production, Warehouses, Quality and Traceability has been developed for TUBE & PIPE MILLS.
