Application Area - Production
beas, Switzerland
For more than twenty years the beas group AG has been solution partner for medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. Since 2002, the company whose headquarters are located in Switzerland, has been focusing on the ERP system SAP Business One and on the development and marketing of industry solutions for the manufacturing and supply industry. Thus they have become one of the leading international SAP Solution Partners. beas' comprehensive solution provides quick and easy access to all company information and to those reports and documents that are needed for the decision-making in all departments of a company: Marketing, purchasing, accounts, production.
The be.as industry solutions consist of several modules that are tailored to the individual needs of the customers. The module APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) is used for fine tuning when order times, processing times, transitional periods, capacity utilization, availability of resources and dates are crucial parameters in the value-added process. Here, beas uses a Gantt chart to compare the schedule-relevant activities to the required resources. The visualization that is realized with VARCHART XGantt ActiveX allows the transparent representation of highly complex data structures with a high number of dependencies.
"The communication between NETRONIC Software und beas went smoothly right from the start. The construction of a first version in a Powerbuilder environment was completed within four weeks. All requirements, amongst others the multilingual interface, could be fulfilled in no time by using the ActiveX control. Due to the very detailed documentation we seldom had to contact the NETRONIC support. If we needed help, however, the support responded quickly and in a professional way", says Martin Heigl, development manager of the beas group AG.
AKO-Agrartechnik, Wangen, Germany
For more than 65 years, the AKO-Agrartechnik has been developing and producing electric pasture fences. Constant innovations characterize the wide spectrum of products of AKO-Agrartechnik. At the site in Wangen, energizers of 12V, 9V and 3V are being produced in different types. The wide-ranging requirements of our customers need a high degree of flexibility and short delivery times.
To meet these requirements the PPS control station has been introduced at the beginning of 2006 to distribute the production orders from the ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the individual workstations in the best way possible. To provide the user with the optimum overview, the application has been developed together with NETRONIC, using the NETRONIC VARCHART ActiveX Control. At the end of last year, the application has been revised so that now also the resource scheduling of staff can be performed in the Gantt chart.
"We wanted to realize the extension of the PPS control station only in cooperation with NETRONIC. They made practical suggestions to solve our problems to our satisfaction and hence to make full use of the versatile new functions of the NETRONIC VARCHART ActiveX Control",says Christian Meiersick, Head of IT Department of the Kerbl group
L-Class, Bulgaria
"VARCHART XGantt is the most modern, versatile and handy Gantt control for diagrams and process optimization presently found on the market." (Nedelko Todorov, Director of Marketing and Business Development)
The ERP&ME System TECHNOCLASS of the Bulgarian software and consulting company L-CLASS is presently conquering the Eastern European market. TECHNOCLASS supports to plan business processes in all sections of an enterprise by an Enterprise Resource Planning system, while a Manufacturing Executing System plans tasks and workloads of machines and staff members in production plants. VARCHART XGantt is used to visualize many different charts in the TECHNOCLASS application.
The tool "MES Optimizer" for example optimizes the workload of the machines by scheduling their tasks that are to be worked off.
The workshop manager can choose between two different planning strategies: "minimal workload of machines" or "constant load". In addition, the production process can either be optimized according to the delivery date (JIT) or according to start date (ASAP). The resource scheduling module of VARCHART XGantt is used for optimizing procedures.
Norriq, Belgium and Netherlands
Norriq, located in Belgium and the Netherlands, is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and focuses on the automotive and beverage industry. Norriq developed an add-on solution using VARCHART XGantt for their client Boucherie.
Boucherie is a manufacturer of machines for making brooms as well as household and industrial brushes. For an efficient planning of the extensive and diverse machine shop for the toothbrush production cells a graphical scheduler became critical.
Norriq replaced the existing ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The production and resource planning charts within Dynamics NAV were realised using VARCHART XGantt. As these Gantt charts can be customized by using a VARCHART XGantt license from NETRONIC Software GmbH, Norriq could easily add the extensions in order to fulfil the requirements of the Boucherie machine shop. The two main requirements for the scheduler are:
- Planning of complex production orders
- Micro-planning the shop floor
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV system in combination with a customized Gantt Chart enables Boucherie today to make better planning decisions and work more efficient then before.
dacore Datenbanksysteme AG, Heroldsberg, Germany
Dacore data base systems has developed a planning software that visualizes and schedules orders for different levels of an enterprise and that is based on VARCHART XGantt. Orders are visualized directly from the data of order administration and can be assigned to resources easily by drag & drop.
Individual calendars display the availability of a resource in detail. For holidays and other workfree periods a separate view can be used and scheduled dates are directly passed on to Microsoft Outlook or to the time recording software. Filters and the simultanous display of different planing levels even with numerous orders results in instant and concise charts. Different selection options allow to mark for example all orders of the same customer. Different time grids, zoom and printing functions complete the range of functions of this planning software.
Didelme Sistemi s.r.l., Castellanza, Italy
"In the past, we used a commercially available scheduler, but the operator interface was not at all friendly and it was impossible to customize the application according to our clients' needs. VARCHART XGantt with its number of methods, properties and events solved our problems brilliantly." (Luigi Borghi, General Manager)
JobScheduler is used to set up production times for the printing and binding shops of graphical industries. It shows resources load, evidence problems (overload, delay etc.) and allows the operator to move tasks among different compatible machines.
I.S.I.s.r.l., Casoni di Podenzano, Italy
The ICARO production plan management started from the longstanding experience in the field of the management of manufacturing processes to supply the planning and production plants management people with a simple and powerful decision making support.
ICARO is based on VARCHART XGantt and allows you to operate interactively on the active production plan so as to manage, in relation to a short period, situations different from what had been scheduled, due, for example, to breakdowns, to operators or resources unavailability, to delays in material delivery. The user has a set of procedures at his disposal that automates and controls the plan interventions, so as to provide operative solutions to the jobs and machine load planning, following the requested delivery dates and the plant production capability. ICARO can easily be interfaced with ERP and MES systems.
JOPP GmbH, Bad Neustadt, Germany
The graphical production control panel by JOOP is a VARCHART XGantt application which allows the supervisors to schedule and to monitor ongoing production tasks.
PDG Systemhaus, Pforzheim, Germany
The module Tool Construction is based on VARCHART XGantt and comprises planning, production and statistics / evaluation of the tools registered in the production plan of a device to be produced. In the production plan, for each production step of a device, the required tools / pieces lists of the tools can be allocated. Tool construction planning is done graphically by using Gantt charts. After dispatching, production orders for the tools to be produced are generated and can be printed as a chart. Different types of orders can be generated: orders for new productions, for replacements, for mending and overhauling. By periodical notifications the actual state of construction is realised and compared to the plan.
Different types of evaluations document the construction process of a new tool. To monitor the life cycle of a tool, a statistics on its use and a history of its repair and overhauling events are maintained.
based on online data from the production (production and machine data acquisition) allows for optimum present state planning in detail.
All the important information of the production process is present in the control panel. The user can recognize deviations promptly; he can interfere and settle the problems immediately. Integrated disposability analyses allow to verify the feasibility of intended actions. All data relevant for planning can be accessed by the user.
ssb GmbH, Munich, Germany
The Media-Planung control panel is the pivotal application in the DISO software, a solution for printing shops and industries based on VARCHART JGantt. In this client-server application all changements of planning are displayed graphically as colored bars.
A user can move the tasks, which are displayed as bars, simply by drag & drop to a different machine or to a different day. Interactions are checked for a number of plausibilities to ensure a failure-free flow of tasks. Messages from the machines are also graphically displayed to inform the user on current operations and their present state.
Thinkwise Software, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Thinkwise Software has developed a new graphical planning tool for ERP. It enables users to display a Gantt chart, to calculate "what-if" scenarios and to put up their plannings.
For this, two VARCHART XGantt components were connected in parallel. In the top chart, working times are displayed while in the bottom chart calculations and their results are indicated. Applying NETRONIC components allows for maximum versatility; problems are easy to solve. Getting an application to run is just comfortable. One can focus on the problems of the customer easily during the programming process. The support offered by NETRONIC proved very helpful and added to improve code efficiency and performance.
