PuK - Process Technology & Components 2024
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Pumps and Systems<br />
Smart Factory<br />
Fig. 3: Construction drawings in Fabasoft Approve, Photo © : Fabasoft Approve<br />
data and document management<br />
system, which serves as the linchpin<br />
of the quality processes. The team<br />
members have direct access to the<br />
digitized lists, which ensures that no<br />
outdated specifications are in use.<br />
Whenever a standard changes, the<br />
software automatically replaces the<br />
relevant sections. As a result, the<br />
smart quality documentation always<br />
meets current legal requirements.<br />
The supplier companies benefit from<br />
this system as well. They are now always<br />
in the know as to when which<br />
inspections are to be carried out and<br />
which documents are to be submitted.<br />
If correction loops become necessary,<br />
these can also be mapped<br />
via the newly created, end-to-end digital<br />
quality process.<br />
Successful path to the<br />
Smart Factory<br />
Fig. 4: Digital supplier documentation, Photo © : Tom Werner via Getty Images<br />
a challenge in the past. The reason: tachments – the manufacturer printed<br />
out the documents, checked and<br />
The teams created the standard test<br />
plans and the QCPs using Microsoft<br />
Excel – with the disadvantage in SAP.<br />
scanned them, and then saved them<br />
that it required a lot of manual effort<br />
and was prone to errors. Each or-<br />
a use case as well. The company in-<br />
KSB turned this “pain point” into<br />
der was accompanied by a document troduced a platform on which it modeled<br />
an end-to-end digital process<br />
containing the collected quality requirements<br />
for all components. The – including an interface to SAP. This<br />
docu ment was sent by e-mail to the platform enabled the technical order<br />
processing team to digitize the<br />
responsible supplier, who then had<br />
to face the task of filtering out the information<br />
relating to their part of the plans at the Pegnitz plant. In concrete<br />
majority of the existing standard test<br />
delivery from the overall inspection terms, this means that the applicable<br />
norms and standards are now<br />
plan. After sending back the requested<br />
test certificates – again as email at- always available in the cloud-based<br />
The two use cases show the potential<br />
opened up by the intelligent automation<br />
of processes at KSB. A<br />
cloud-based data and document<br />
management system now enables<br />
the Group to take its quality management<br />
processes to a new, futureproof<br />
level. KSB also benefits from<br />
the smart data environment created<br />
along the supply chain, in which<br />
the exchange of information works<br />
seamlessly – ideal prerequisites for<br />
successfully navigating the path towards<br />
a Smart Factory.<br />
The Author<br />
Andreas Dangl is an entrepreneur<br />
and Managing Director of Fabasoft<br />
Approve GmbH. In his function, he<br />
supports industrial companies in<br />
the introduction of smart software<br />
for the management of technical<br />
data and documents.<br />
www.fabasoft.com/approve<br />
32 PROCESS TECHNOLOGY & COMPONENTS <strong>2024</strong>
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