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Planning and scheduling software for Cable industry
Your industry's background:
The cable industry is a specific field. It is involved in a wide range of markets, each with their own suitable logistics. Moreover, cable is a complex product that involves dozens of components. Fragile and heavy, cable must be transported on reels under considerable safety conditions. Halfway between weaving and injection molding, cable requires extensive investments similar to those of iron and steel metallurgy. A cable is increasing difficult to produce on a single line, entailing the creation of inventories and the need for scheduling to avoid crossing the flows.
In this environment, your efficiency comes from optimal use of resources and perfect synchronization of production flows.
Challenges for your industry:
- Deregulation of domestic markets (example: energy market) and increasing competition (in the telecommunications and automotive industries, for example)
- Multiplication of new part numbers
- Pull planning deliveries with the correct length
- Increasingly shorter and more precise lead times
- Need for a reliable solution to transform excellent scheduling into a competitive advantage synonymous with gaining market shares
ORTEMS provides a customized solution, regardless of your type of production or products:
- Standard or special cables
- For any type of cable (energy, telecommunications, ship, infrastructure, industry, underwater, wire, fiber optic)
- In inventory, on order or mixed method
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows to:
- Meet market demand and satisfy customers over increasingly short deadlines: be more responsive and flexible to deliver and manufacture the right cable, with the right length at the right time and in the right location
- Get the most out of your production facilities and increase resource productivity
- Dramatically improve customer service
- Reduce cycle times
- Reduce inventories of raw materials and semi-finished goods
- Help create production runs and increase the lines' productivity
- Dynamically assign orders to production runs
- Control production lead times
- Standardize manufacturing processes
- Increase responsiveness and flexibility
- Improve visibility of flows and control over lead times
Advantages:
- Optimal use of production facilities, take maximum advantage of industrial capacity to meet customer demand at maximum capacity and as quickly as possible
- Decrease in cycle times (up to 50%)
- Reduction in inventories and WIP
- Reduction in labor and subcontracting costs (improved anticipation)
- Reduction in "dimensional load" costs and penalties
- Decrease in management costs (time spent on planning)
- Improvement in customer service rate (up to 50%)
- Increase in productivity (up to 20%)
- 50% decrease in production planning preparation time
- Fast ROI
Our strengths - managing your specific requirements:
- Availability of raw materials
- Heavy equipment, with significant changeover time
- Multi-parameter changeovers, different for each machine
- Limited number of resources
- Customer satisfaction or penalty?
- Multiplication of new part numbers
ORTEMS success stories:
NEXANS:
- Reduction in inventory and WIP: 23%
- Productivity: +1 to 2%
- Improved customer service
- Reliable schedule
- Improved visibility of production, logistics, maintenance, etc.
PRYSMIAN:
- 25-33% reduction in lead times
- 25% reduction in WIP
- 10% reduction in materials and waste
- -10% for setup time
- 20-30% increase in customer service rate
- Administrative time cut in half
- 2% increase in productivity
JSC IRKUTSKKABEL:
- 15% increase in productivity
- Plant wide scheduling with horizon 6-8 weeks and 5500 WOs
