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SPECIAL Author: Harald Seidemann, Managing Director, IPS Expert GmbH, Würzburg Guss Expert – the foundry ERP system is ready for China The Sino-German Green Foundry Summit Forum in Qingdao – attended by association representatives, numerous Chinese foundry representatives, and specialists from Germany’s foundry sector – took place for the second time in September 2015. The event provided an opportunity to discuss a very interesting topical subject: development towards Foundry 4.0, the information technologies that will be necessary for this, and a suitable communication platform. Industry 4.0, and particularly Foundry 4.0, involves the setting-up of a network to provide all the necessary information in real time to every entity involved in the value-creation chain for the production of castings. It also means the possibility and ability to extrapolate and automatically adjust the further flow of production and values on the basis of the information obtained. Foundry 4.0 is characterized by a wide-ranging and comprehensive human-machine and machine-machine dialog. Access to the relevant data and results takes place both via the internal company network as well as via secured communication paths, such as VPN and the internet. In addition to PCs (which can already be described as ‘classic’), increasing numbers of iPads, tablets and smartphones are being used here. The foundry manager is thus always kept informed about the general situation in production; current processes in production; the state of individual aggregates and, not least, the stage of processing of the customers’ orders. The exchange of all data with customers, suppliers and external workers also takes place digitally via electronic data exchange and web access. Sino-German Green Foundry Summit Forum in Qingdao: At the event the development towards Foundry 4.0 was dicussed (Photos and Graphics: IPS Expert) The foundry’s customers can check out the state of processing of their orders at any time via the web, with the help of a browser-enabled device, e.g. on an iPad or smartphone. For the foundries this means that their machines and aggregates must be equipped with networking capability, and a comprehensive internal network constructed by means of cables, WLAN, switches, etc. If this is already a major task when building a foundry from scratch, it is a disproportionally greater challenge in the case of an existing foundry. In addition to the enormous tasks facing the hardware and the technical solutions, the software used – the Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) – must be designed in such a way that networking in the sense of Foundry 4.0 is possible. Guss Expert – the special ERP system for foundries – achieves this and is therefore the solution for foundries on the way to Industry 4.0, in particular. Following use in Germany and Europe the system can now also be employed in Chinese foundries. In addition to resource planning, costings and sales it is, in particular, the areas of production planning and production/machine data acquisition, as well as electronic data interchange (EDI) with customers and suppliers that are responsible for the real-time processing of data in Industry 4.0. The timing of the start and end of a work sequence as defined during throughput scheduling and capacity planning is the prerequisite for placing the production order on the planning grid for weekly or daily planning. Feedback from production via production/ 48 Casting Plant & Technology 1/2016
The different modules of the ERP-/ PPS-software Guss Expert machine data acquisition is compared with the defined schedules – and particular events that are important for further work steps are triggered. Guss Expert and the consulting services of IPS Expert GmbH, Wurzburg, Germany, or its Chinese partner company Qingdao Forward Green Foundry provide support for foundries regarding permanent process monitoring as well as the reorganization of processes in the sense of Industry 4.0. www.ipsexpert.de Competence and Innovation. DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING OF PROTOTYPE AND SERIAL PRODUCTION TOOLS FOR ALL CASTING PROCESSES Meissner AG 35216 Biedenkopf-Wallau Germany Phone +49(0)6461 802-0 info@meissner.eu www.meissner.eu Casting Plant & Technology 1/2016 49
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