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News Release from: Seiki Systems | Subject: Integrated manufacturing execution system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2006
Controlling orders and workflow
Visitors to MACH 2006 will be able to gain a fast track overview of how orders and workflow can be controlled and managed on the shopfloor to meet delivery dates.
With just 10 minutes spent on the Seiki Systems Stand 5566 in Hall 5 at MACH 2006, visitors will be able to gain a fast track overview of how orders and workflow can be controlled and managed on the shopfloor to meet delivery dates and how utilisation of production equipment can be optimised using a range of individual modules that can be built-up as required to form a totally integrated manufacturing execution system defined by Seiki Systems as iMES Seiki Systems, which has some 6,000 CNC machines connected into its software, can provide a complete suite of production management software tools involving CNC machining for small to medium batch production each of which have been developed as separate modules to meet specific requests of customers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to David Trowell, general manager: "A typical machine shop can have 500 or so live jobs each with five or six operations spread across a host of different CNC machine tools." He then explains how the added complexity of shift patterns can make it so much more complex to comprehend what is happening in a live situation especially when the scene is constantly changing and the due date gets progressively closer.
"At the same time companies are fighting to reduce costs and lead time and always trying to identify spare or unused capacity to improve utilisation and pay back.
Here, getting up to date or unbiased information to make management decisions is very difficult and this is an important area that we address," he maintains.
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Seiki Systems consider the modern theme of 'one-hit' machining in fact further compounds matters.
"This is because from the start, parts are more valuable and complex, often involving more expensive machine tools which become 'Key' production centres.
These have to run at high utilisation and efficiency to gain any sort of effective return on investment," he says.
On the Seiki Systems stand visitors will be able to checkout the advantages of the various modules from a special enterprise resource planning (ERP) system developed for small manufacturing companies to four variants of direct numerical control.
There will be dynamic 'real time' work scheduling, shopfloor data collection which leads to machine monitoring and performance analysis, with the added support of remote status and information gathering, wireless transmission of data and alarm messaging.
On-machine probing data can even now be analysed by Seiki Systems and analytic software is now available to satisfy any production management with its ability to provide up to the minute productivity data on overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
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