Iron & Steel
Technical Contracts for Industrial Plants emerge between two very different organizations. One organization for which the technology is purpose for production of a completely different product. And one organization which purpose is exactly that technology which it is inventing and engineering.
Two different focusses that create a common document being basis for the execution and delivery of a Industrial Plant Project. Different understanding of the technology described therein often leads to different points of opinion over the same object. The clearer the common picture of the project is, the better the project execution will render itself. In the complexity of the technologies of the Industrial Plant inconsistencies require additional human interaction in the production process that may unnecessarily bind capabilities of staff members. Or influence the customers organization such that only part of the full plant potential will be available to him.
One key area for the successfull investment of a steelmaker into capital equipment which forms his basis of organizational operation and results where support will bring such project to a much better starting point than without.
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Production Organization is often handed over to IT solutions that perform automatic or semi-automatic Production Planning functions. Such approach is fine for production of a portfolio built of uniform products in varying batch sizes, for typical batch prduction. Our customer however is producing specialized rubber based products where customer orders tend to be unique and the base of different articles is conseiderable big.
Organizing production here is a process that involves Customer requirements, current production, individual production processes and changes in the production schedule are the norm. Without the intelligence of the relevant employees in Sales, Logistics, Production and Process Experts any automated Production Planning System would limit the capacity of what is possible.
In close cooperation with the Product Division of our customer, he invented a IT Platform that represents various views of the current order lineup and production situation with scheduling of new orders to customer delivery requirments.
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