As automated machines took place in businesses foundry industry has changed the practices in foundry business and now we are going towards best practices for foundries. Foundry industry can concentrate more on business then other technical issues.
It is my experience about foundry men that they are hard worker and dedicated as this business demands. I found them busy in non productive things that can easily fix with the help of our foundry software. As like the machine, foundry software is one of the important tool that helps to concentrate on business rather analyzing non productive things. Foundry software is a tool that is as important as tool invented by foundry engineering to boost up production
These things motivated me to develop the exclusive product for foundry business. We started development in 2004 and we concluded mini ERP solution type product for foundry needs.
Foundry software covers the needs for small, medium and large foundries for all sections such as Marketing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Material, QA, Finance, Accounts and HR
Key Benefits of foundry ERP Software Solution
Cost Effective Solution that is easily affordable to every one!!!
Unlike other ERP packages, Foundry Software Solution is cost effective customize ERP package for foundries.
Easy to Use!!! Foundry ERP Solution is specially designed for foundry industries and hence all terminology, menu and reports designed especially suitable for foundry industries. This specialization empower small & medium foundry members to shape up their organization with all benefit of best prevailing business practice & standard automatically, once they implement Foundry Software for their company.
Easy to Implement & Maintain with Minimum Resources!!!
Considering limited resources in form of “available IT infrastructure” and “tech savvy manpower”, foundry software is designed in such a way that it is very easy to use with simple GUI screen and can be managed with single or multiple computer in network with user’s based security restriction.
In following segments foundries can be benefited by ERP solution for foundries.
- Production Planning Control
- Marketing Department
- Pattern Shop
- Moulding Shop
- Fettling Shop
- Dispatch
- Material Testing
- Attendance and Wages Calculation
- Store department
For above departments followings are the clear measurable benefits that foundries can have if they use our foundry software.
- Easy to track available or non available patterns.
- Powerful pattern number generation system
- Pattern stock at your fingertips
- Budget setting for financial year
- Foundry software can set budget for value (INR, USD), No of heats, Casting, Rejection
- Alerts against Actual work and budget
- Alert against planning and actual
- Complete details to record for order posting with terms and conditions
- Weekly production planning
- Daily production planning details
- Shop floor – Mould planning details
- Shop floor – Core planning details
- Material Consumption planning details
- Day to day production summary report
- Day to day rejection report
- Day to day material consumption report
- Day to day passing report
- Day to day heat treatment report
- Day to day dispatch report
- Complete traceability of ordered item from order acceptance to customer rejection
- Shift wise, date wise and supervisor wise production summary report
- Heat wise and number of heats or shift wise heats management
- Casting family to specification wise breakup e.g. CI, CI Alloy, SS, CS, CS Alloy
- Third party recovery analysis
- Order position statement
- Online to cast load details i.e. it gives data for planning of casting as per delivery date and casting weight.
- Online to cast to load helps to plan to stock level of charging material for the production.
- Excess cast report
- Complete rejection summary
- Rejection reason wise rejection summary
- Rejection as per the total production
- Graphical Statistic of first, second and customer rejection
- Electricity consumption report
- Tight integration between sales invoice and material test certificate
- Easy history backup
- Comprehensive stock valuation report
- It maintains stock register up to date
- Quotations and it’s follow-ups
- User can generate labels and envelopes
- Day to day material inward register
- Pending items to receive against purchase order
- Day to day Material issue register
- Specification wise charging material details
- Reordering item list
- It maintains complete attendance and wages of worker on the basis of Heats, number of days including OT hours and consumed liquid material
If we think beside this foundry domain, technically foundry software can give other technical benefits to foundry software users.
It is window based software so GUI and ease of user is by default user can have.
Database is RDBMS. It is on MS SQL. So it can handle large volume of data.
Full system reporting via crystal report
It got facility give rights of software as per their work profile.
It allows handling multiple companies to work with the software.
Beside of above foundry ERP Software solution can be integrated with Spectrometer machine, PLC integration for heat treatment, Weigh scale integration for weighing scraps or raw materials.
In short, any foundry can obviously benefited by foundry software.
Chakravarti Panthi
14 May 2009