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News Release from: Exel Computer Systems
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 April 2005
WElded tubes maker invests in latetst
ERP
Hydro Ellay Enfield, a world leader in the manufacture of welded tubes for automotive heat exchanger applications, has ordered the EFACS ERP system from Exel.
Hydro Ellay Enfield, a world leader in the manufacture of welded tubes for automotive heat exchanger applications, has ordered the EFACS ERP system from Exel Based in Workington, Cumbria, and part of the massive Hydro international group of companies, Ellay Enfield produces precision heat exchange tubing in clad aluminium and solder-coated brass
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is used in the automotive industry for radiators, heaters, air conditioner manifolds, charge air coolers and oil coolers, and in such domestic appliances as air conditioners and fridges.
With GBP 10m turnover, Hydro Ellay Enfield is one of a few companies operating in this highly specialist sector.
Rapid batch production includes roll forming tube and high frequency welding in three mills, operating at anything from 140m to 220m/min.
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Due to be installed in the third quarter of this year, the EFACS ERP system will replace a financial-based business system which is becoming increasingly incapable of integrating the company's planning, ERP and MRP processes.
Integration was considered vital because the company's production planning needs have become more complex and the company has built up a number of 'home-grown' systems to manage inventory, planning and other areas which are not linked together.
This means a considerable amount of manual checking and adjustments need to be made, increasing the likelihood of human error.
Says Fred Williams, Hydro Ellay Enfield's Financial Director: "Our existing system was able to cope before but it was not ideal and the business has recently become much more complex".
"The production processes used to be fairly simple but this is changing".
"For example, we have quite a range of raw material alloy cladding mixtures and one of the main complexities is controlling the raw material which is typically on a 16 weeks lead time".
" The other complexity is that we are getting into other products that require an extended production process, so now there are other processes off-mill that we need to control and it is equally important that we schedule those as effectively as the mill production." Hydro Ellay Enfield looked at several systems and shortlisted three, then went through a rigorous process of looking at how each system met the company's specification.
In the end, Hydro Ellay Enfield chose EFACS because: "We knew we could work with the people at Exel," says Williams".
" "Price was also important but the support that we thought we would get from the company was the main deciding factor," Williams says".
""Exel got a good grasp of our business very quickly and of the issues involved and was able to demonstrate very well how their system would overcome them without any major rewrites, which is exactly what we wanted.".
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