Foundry ERP Software - Opti Kompakt

Highlights of OPTI.kompakt:

Planning• Integrated operations schedule and parts

list as a continuous resources plan• Simple, fast and exact to the last cent cal-

culation of all manufacturing steps • Takes just minutes to enter a new part by

duplicating and adapting resources plans• Similarity search• Integrated materials database • Provides enquiries with schedules while ta-

king the complete schedule chain into ac-count

• Automatic material requirements analysis• Workfl ow and release-controlled interdepart-

mental work

Production• Displays all manual and mechanical mould

processes• Automatic scheduling across all manufactu-

ring steps taking capacities and bottlenecks into account (MRP II-run)

• Flexible, scalable feedback chains in pro-duction

• Procedure-controlled administration of all tools and patterns for moulds and cores

• Integrated test planning and certifi cate ge-neration

• Detailed planning for each day or shift using add-ons

• Seamless links between foundry-specifi c modules ensure synchronised processes

Reporting/GIS• Integrated web-based GIS, (Foundry Infor-

mation System) – continuous information system about all data relevant for the pro-duct and production

• Management information for decision-ma-kers

• Comprehensive standard reports and real time evaluations

• Visual planning using the utilization and ca-pacity cockpit

• Open database

Compact price Complete coverageUnrivalled performance

Medium-sized foundries have special requirements for their corporate soft-ware. OPTI.kompakt provides you with an optimised FRP system (Foundry Resource Planning) specially tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized foundries with 5 or more workstations.

Every foundry is special. The OPTI.kom-pakt modular principle makes it possible to adapt it flexibly to your requirements. From detailed planning, service planning, claims and knowledge management through to in-tegrated charge calculations – we deliver a whole range of modular solutions. This also means that OPTI.kompakt can grow with your company. In addition to its informative and easy to operate user interface, OPTI.kompakt is convincing on so many levels, with its simple handling, comprehensive

displays and the fact that it integrates typi-cal foundry processes. All of this is provided at an unbeatable price combined with short implementation times.

More than 30 years of experience and process structures from more than 100 foundries have gone into our FRP system. OPTI.kompakt consolidates our developments in a pre-configured standard solution.

Combine this with our consultants’ ex-pertise and you will soon notice that you have not just bought a software solution, you have also gained a long term success-oriented partner for your company.

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THE COMPACT FRP SOLUTION

OPTI.KOMPAKT

The core functions of OPTI.kompakt:

Planning & CalculationIntegrated resources plan: OPTI.kompakt is fully aligned to the way foundries really work. That is why, in contrast to other systems, we do not consider work schedules and parts lists separately. All of the resources needed for the manufacture of a particular cast part are displayed within a tree structure in a multi-step resources plan. It doesn’t matter whether it concerns self-produced components (cores, patterns, melt), purchased items (filters, feeders, sand) or work pro-cesses (pattern, clean, finish, internally or externally). The logic of the resources plan is integrated throughout all levels of OPTI.kompakt.

• Simple to create new parts and variants• Fast, reliable calculation of all or specific levels taking all

possible costs into account at the touch of a button, including purchased parts and external services

• Similarity searches for articles already calculated• Calculations archive• Administration of all technical parameters in the parts master • Integrated, comprehensive materials database, with saveable

test plans

SalesThe sales section guarantees reliable and clear creation of offers, or-der processing, dispatch organisation and invoicing.

• It takes just a few days from receiving an enquiry to sending out the offer

• Support for all types of order, such as sample and first sample, individual, series and make and take orders for products as well as for patterns and tools

• Saves all customer agreements, a wide variety of MTZ and ETZ models, all metal pricelists with all columns and the relevant values (LME, VAW etc). All surcharges can be saved specifically according to customers, parts, materials or processes.

• Problem-free adaptation with inflation increases and automatic information to the customer about price changes

• Displays a wide range of logistics principles such as preview, fixed orders, consignment stock or commercial goods

• Seamless interaction between the production and control plan-ning: fast feedback regarding customer’s preferred dates

PurchasingIn the purchasing module you can organise your company’s procure-ment activities clearly and efficiently. All the information which is nee-ded by the purchaser about suppliers and purchased articles is saved in the master data and linked with storage/consumption and price units as well as a variety of parameters for controlling procurement and technical specifications.

• Administration of all the different types of order details such as framework orders, individual orders, manual and automated order tracking

• Detailed price sheet function with price conditions such as amounts, discount tables, delivery conditions and metal price-lists

• Material requirements, purchased parts and external services are recorded according to orders or generated automatically as accumulated weekly amounts or they can be recorded manually

• Takes into account minimum available stock requirements, order lot sizes, replacement times and the orders which have already been triggered Overview provided at an early stage in order to optimise order quantities from the point of view of costs and liquidity

• Integrated reminder and dunning process for suppliers.

Production and control planningThe PPS-System is the right instrument for the operational and strate-gic planning of your production. With the PPS-System, the scheduling and capacity situation can be controlled and monitored quickly and re-liably for the short and long term and for all scheduling levels and bot-tlenecks. The PPS-System shows its particular strengths in planning and synchronising mould, melt and casting processes. The different types of continuous and discontinuous processes can be synchronised for the different types of foundry and availabilities and capacities can be checked:

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• Tool availability, preparation and provisioning of tools, moulding box and pit availability

• Coordinates the moulding shop and core production, if necessa-ry taking into account the pattern board and core box availability and combinations, provision of liquid melt for several moulding shop areas and material qualities, if necessary formation of casting batches

• Takes account of the required cool down and holding times • Process and capacity-utilization for finishing cast parts, if neces-

sary with external services • Formation of heat treatment batches • Integrated detailed planning with filter functions as an add-on• Simple to set up sensible feedback chains for seamless tracea-

bility• Provides foundry workers with information via the integrated

foundry information system with checklist functions, particularly for critical work-steps

• Automatically generates comprehensive documentation

The PPS-System covers the needs of all types of foundries, for typical series producers as well as for discrete producers. It is possible to access the latest valid production plans online or to transfer them to the production management systems, e.g.in moulding plants, so as to control operations in the control centre.

Materials managementThe materials management section provides the solution for efficient stock management for all products and primary products, purchased or stored materials including load carriers, containers, pallets etc. with different inventory accounts.

• Plants, locations, quarantine store, external service providers, consignment store, intermediate store, dispatch store

• Incoming and outgoing bookings, inventory and stock evalua-tions derived from production information messages

• Evaluates semi-finished and finished stock• Item management, articles can be managed via ID and batch

numbers as inventory• Permanent inventory via operational sequence statements• Various evaluation procedures for inventory

Pattern management / tool management• Pattern management comprising all the tools needed in the

production and their variants (die casting tools, pattern boards, core tools, moulds, CNC tools, inspection equipment etc.)

• Displays complex pattern structures and all technical parame-ters in the resources plan (with pattern parts list and tool card)

• Monitors tool-life, number of castings and maintenance intervals• All tool processes recorded, (fitting times, repairs, provisioning,

cleaning, dispatch etc.)• Monitors tool availability (casting limit exceeded during produc-

tion, tool is being serviced etc.)• Creates seamless lifecycle reports• Records and stores documents (drawings, photos, Office files)• Tool amortisation• Release procedure / blocking procedure

Comprehensive information system and evaluations• Comprehensive, web-based information system, accessible from

all masks• Integrated foundry information system covering all levels• Proactive management information, automatically fresh on your

desk • KPI – performance figures for all sensitive areas• Workflow-components• Checklists to accompany processes• Foundry worker’s information cockpit

»With OPTI.kompakt we have now got costs and production under control. Our expectations have been more

than fulfilled.«

Stephan Buchholz, Managing Director, Buchholz & Cie. Giesserei GmbH

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Since 1984 RGU GmbH has been develo-ping standard technical and commercial software solutions to support business pro-cesses efficiently.

Based in Dortmund, this company is spe-cialised in providing complete solutions packages covering everything needed for production planning and control systems in foundries and the metal processing in-dustry.

The result is corporate processes which are structured so efficiently that business success can be planned for.

This is achieved by means of cooperation, precise analysis and skilled consulting ser-vices which take up the customer’s specific requirements and put them into practice.

After more than 30 years in the IT sec-tor, RGU has grown to become one of the leading providers of innovative software technologies for PPS systems in Germany. Throughout Europe more than 120 custo-mers now rely on PPS and FRP solutions from this Dortmund software company.

Other services from RGUThe fact that our products focus on the foundry industry is no coincidence. Working on every implementation we have a strong team of consultants who have their roots in the foundry industry. That is why we are also a strong partner at your side when it comes to providing product-independent advice, for structuring foundry processes or when creating specification catalogues for introducing software systems in found-ries. We know what we, and you, are talking about.

What does FRP stand for?FRP is derived from ERP, the well-known abbreviation for Enterprise Resource Plan-ning. Instead of looking at the often un-clearly defined “enterprise” we focus solely on foundries, which have significantly dif-ferent processes from those described in standard ERP systems – and that is why we have called it FRP – Foundry Resource Planning.

We would be delighted to tell you more about OPTI.kompakt in person and look forward to receiving your enquiry.

Or find out more on the internet at.:www.rgu.de

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Phone: 0265-278 6774

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