Profitable Production for Your Customers

Production Management from Melt Shop to Market

Increasing variety of orders? Decreasing quantities per order? Shorter delivery times? The production process in metals is driven by a cumulative complexity. Therefore real time tracking with integrated operational quality processes becomes more substantial.

Be it feedstock quality, routine material handling or correct execution of the individual process steps in the plant/ at shop floor level – PSImetals Production continuously captures, controls and monitors all production data and processes in metal production. Pre-defined key performance indicators (KPI) – optionally as realtime information or as a trend – enable the online evaluation of current and future production situations.

This enables significantly improved process efficiency, higher yield and cost savings.

The following areas are covered:

Material & Stock Management
Schedule Execution
Production Tracking
Production Order Lifecycle

Available for:

Industry: Steel, Aluminium, Copper
Process: Coking plant, blast furnace, melt shop, rolling & finishing
Products: flat products, long products, tubes
Tracking units: batch, single pieces, lots, bundles

WHAT ARE YOUR BENEFITS?

Standardize, Automate, Benefit

Higher process effiency by a seamless integration from process control to ERP as well as a horizontal integration of all production processes
Intelligent decision support and automated user guidance for shopfloor along the production process for primary metals
Support of fast close by perpetual inventory

Single source-of-truth: consistent process status and history information
Easy process configuration based on predefined templates for metals specific lines
Adaption of business processes to customer needs by graphical workflow management
Ongoing documentation of gained know-how

Material & Stock Management

Administration of all material types
Goods receipt, movement tracking and goods issue on material and batch level
Management of scrap yards, bunkers, small part areas, semi-finished products and equipment

Schedule execution

Fast reaction to production issues by modifying released line schedules
Management of line schedule states

Production tracking

Tracking of material flow
Registration of all production data in the different facilities
Basis for reporting and quality control

Production Order Lifecycle

Managing production orders during their lifetime
Status management

WHY PSI?

Benefit from the Market Leader for Production Management in Metals

[Translate to English:] Production: Component Module

Transparency across the whole process chain from melt shop to shipping
Integrated processes between planning and production
One factory model for all PSImetals modules supporting a comprehensive production management combining SCM, APS and MES
PSI owned, compact and flexible SCADA system for collecting and analyzing real-time data for process control and decision making
Artificial Intelligence at PSI: Choosing the best mix for industrial questions combining Neural Networks, advanced Fuzzy Logic and Operations Research
Java-based software technology for a high configurability and intuitive user interfaces, optimized for daily tasks in steel and aluminum production