Melting and casting is a metal hot processing technology. As one of the basic processes of modern machinery manufacturing industry, it is an indispensable processing link in the manufacturing of mechatronic equipment. As a typical branch of the mixed manufacturing industry, mechatronic manufacturing has the characteristics of process manufacturing in the first half of product manufacturing, namely, melting and casting, and discrete manufacturing in the second half, namely, machining.

The hybrid production method is also called a hybrid process, semi-process or discrete-continuous process. It is a complex production method that has both continuous and discrete production processes. It can achieve good management of the internal supply chain of hybrid production enterprises, help enterprises reduce costs, and improve product quality and product delivery. This is a test of the functionality and flexibility of ERP software. Fangtian Software's smelting and casting industry solution uses the flexibility of Fangtian ERP software to start with the process formula management and casting technology of foundry enterprises, helping foundry enterprises to standardize business processes, ensure product quality, improve production capacity, and achieve refined cost accounting management.

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Fangtian Software provides solutions for the smelting and casting industries, establishes a formulated production management process, and builds a refined cost accounting management system.

1. Standardized management of smelting formula process

Fangtian's smelting and casting solution based on recipe management can well support the production model of multiple inputs and multiple outputs:

It can support five types of inputs: material type, equipment type, labor type, miscellaneous type, and operation specification instruction type;

Three types of outputs can be defined: finished products, co-products, and by-products;

In order to collect quality inspection information more comprehensively, pre-set quality inspection plans are specified for each type of input and output link. With the support of a comprehensive data model, the software can comprehensively collect and produce costs and quality inspection results related to the entire process.

Supports the function of extending recipes, which can combine multiple recipes to form a new processing flow to define inventory data and simplify and standardize all processes between production, inventory and cost activities.

2. Flexible modeling of foundry production workshop

Most ERP software is not suitable for complex production site management of smelting and casting enterprises because the underlying data model is designed for discrete manufacturing enterprises. Fangtian smelting and casting solutions can achieve:

For the smelting and casting process: manage the production process according to the formula;

For machining: a batch demand planning subsystem has been added to the rigorous discrete manufacturing business process, so as to better compile production plans for products and semi-finished products at each stage and material procurement plans according to orders, reasonably schedule production according to product capacity or equipment capacity, and improve the feasibility of production plans; it can be better applied to planned production and order-based production modes, greatly improving work efficiency and accuracy.

3. Comprehensive quality control and traceability management

The "centralized quality control and inspection" function of Fangtian Smelting and Casting Solution provides centralized quality control for all application modules. According to the material and transaction type, the enterprise can specify a standard quality inspection plan. When the actual business occurs, the quality inspection results of the entire supply chain are collected centrally.

Fangtian Smelting and Casting Solution provides batch number and serial number management for all incoming and outgoing materials. When a product has a problem, the repair status can be recorded in detail and the original production status and original materials of the product can be traced. In turn, the same batch of products of the product can be found, as well as the sales or inventory status of these products.

4. Fangtian + MES Manufacturing Execution

Strengthen workshop operation planning, reasonably allocate personnel and working hours, provide timely and accurate production feedback, ensure the transparency of production data and progress, and improve the completion rate of production plans and product delivery time;

The barcode technology is used to track the entire production process from material production to finished product storage, and all events that occur during the production process are collected in real time, making the entire factory workshop completely transparent;

Make the product clear and transparent throughout the entire production process, quickly discover the causes of quality problems, formulate targeted measures to solve quality bottlenecks, achieve product quality traceability, and reduce quality costs

Real-time recording and monitoring of the completion status of production processes and processing tasks, personnel work efficiency, labor productivity, equipment utilization, product qualification rate, scrap rate, etc. Through the system's comprehensive statistical information query function, problems in the execution process can be discovered in a timely manner and improvements can be made.

5. Refined cost accounting of casting and machining

Fangtian foundry industry solution provider divides the cost into: material cost, labor cost, manufacturing cost and processing cost. At the same time, it allocates the cost of each link of the foundry workshop, including each product: finished product, joint product, by-product, intermediate product, etc.

The cost calculation method adopts batch and step method, and provides flexible settings for labor and cost allocation to adapt to various complex situations. It truly frees financial personnel from complicated manual work such as data collection and cost allocation, provides cost information to managers faster and more accurately, and improves the management decision-making level of the enterprise.

6. Intelligent warehouse management

Innovatively integrate barcode labels and RFID technology, and intelligent equipment throughout the entire logistics process to achieve digital and intelligent management and control of products;

Establish application scenarios for automated equipment such as three-dimensional shelves/three-dimensional containers, and realize "Shelves + robots = solutions for automated warehousing material systems" through information technologies such as mother-and-child cart systems, four-way shuttle technology, multi-layer shuttle technology, ground four-way light and two-heavy AGV technology, goods-to-person picking systems, WMS (warehouse management system) software, and WCS (warehouse control system) systems.

7. Combination of light intelligent manufacturing scenarios

Fangtian's solutions for the Industrial Internet:

Omni-channel solutions/core operations management (T-ONE ERP)/agile R&D management (PLM)/intelligent manufacturing solutions (IMS)

Fangtian's solutions for external IoT:

Fangtian Cloud Platform/Big Data Predictive Analysis/Fangtian Software Internet of Things Solutions.

The combination of Fangtian software and related intelligent manufacturing hardware equipment: Siemens/Panasonic/Foxconn/Honeywell.

Fang TianFoundry ERPIndustry-integrated solutions help companies build digital workshops and provide them with integrated enterprise digitalization solutions from design to production, from procurement to warehousing, and from sales to finance.