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As a pillar industry
in China’s economy, iron & steel industry has made an active
contribution to its sustainable growth. This industry has
experiencing a changing productive and marketing environment
and shows a trend of multi-variety small-lot production
according to order sheets, opposite to its advantageous
traditional pattern of small-variety large-lot production. In
the recent ten years, iron & steel businesses is facing a
greatly-changed competitive setting and costumers’ needs for
product types and specifications ( i.e. width, thickness,
plating and mechanical properties, etc.) are diversified more
than ever, characteristic of large-variety and small volume.
In such a situation, iron & steel businesses feel it
increasingly tough to predict the demands of costumers. To
replace the traditional prediction-centric push-typed system
with the demand-centric pull-typed system will be the most
effective operational strategies and the prediction-centric
productive pattern is changing to the order-centric productive
one and large-lot production in the past to large-variety
small-lot production. Under this productive model, sales
personnel should know the productive sector very well to avoid
signing unreasonable contracts while personnel responsible for
production and planning should know previous and present
productive data, combine small orders on basis of practical
productivity and make scientific and reasonable planning for
production . Only by doing such, can they give productive
factories scientific instructions, coordination and organize
production quickly and accurately in terms of sales contracts.
To meet challenges
from the new market in a good manner, all iron & steel
businesses are pushing informationization construction.
Powerise Software, in its informationization project in
Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., has accumulated lots of
useful experiences and formed an iron & steel
informationization solution, very suitable for this
profession.
Goals of PowerIS :
establish a whole-process quality-tracing controlling platform
based on product norms and metallurgical norms, and establish
a brand new productive flow management model tracking down
order sheets all the way.
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Goals of
product and metallurgical norms: establish product and
metallurgical norm coding system and its quick searching
system, and form e-name cards for clients’ required products
and set up conditions for standardized productive processing
and checks;
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Goals of
unified production-sales planning and real-time dynamic
optimization management: conduct dynamic follow-up checks in
the course of the information convey regarding measurement and
quality in the stages of production, supply and sales, and
fulfill the product flow planning management and real-time
dynamic management under metallurgical norms;
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Goals of raw
and processed material management: establish an all-the-way
management system associated with raw and processed materials,
cargo arrival prediction, collection and treatment of
measurements, collection and treatment of quality check
information, flow management of raw & processed materials and
fuels storing and withdrawal, raw & proceed material and fuels
inventory management, and classified account settlement of raw
& processed materials and fuels’;
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Goals of
all-the-way order sheet management: Center around costumers
and satisfy their individualized needs; make a quick
metallurgical norms for special products; join together the
processes of clients’ contracts, metallurgical norms, order
sheets, labor list and cargo delivery records;
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Goals of
order-oriented inventory management: achieve the objectives of
order-centric storing position management and automatic
storehouse selection in cargo delivery through the connection
among the inventory list of finished & semi-finished products,
labor list, quality control check lists, order sheets,
contracts and costumers;
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A sustainable
coordinated work platform for businesses: As a complicated
productive unit with a big managerial system, an iron & steel
business needs a management system, able to get compatible
with not only various network and business-treading systems,
but also operational flow and office work
flow.
Contents of PowerIS
IS
Management system of
product norms and metallurgical norms: e-name-cards are made
and the product norm codes define the type, criteria and plate
number of products to provide clients with accurate
information. The product norm codes, driven by the system, can
convert automatically to instructions for productive activity
and quality control, acting as a bridge linking the clients to
production management, and automatically convert ‘client
language’ to the ‘pitch point’ of ‘productive language’. It is
a package of work instructions concerning product size, size
tolerance, packing, technological processing parameters and
fully represents clients’ requirements in productive
instructions.
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Based on the
product metallurgical norms, establish the product logistic
model characterized by all-the-way tracking management
centering around order sheets.
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Form the raw
& processed material and fuel flow management model combining
the processes of cargo arrival, measuring, quality check,
storing, account settlement and productive consumption based
on material and fuel supply contracts and thus achieve the
objective of tracing down measurement, quality check and
account settlement based on supply ordering numbers.
Main Characteristics of PowerIS IS
Metallurgy and other
production-flowed manufacturing industry are mainly
characterized by a continuing processing associated with some
raw materials’ chemical or physic phasing and changes and
therefore need dynamic and real-time adjustments of productive
planning. PowerIS IS can perform wonderful functions of
integrated planning making and real-time optimization and the
experiences accumulated in its practice, from product and
metallurgical norms, logistic and monitoring management,
measurement and quality control models, can be adapted fully
to the needs of metallurgy and other production -flowed
manufactures.
PowerIS IS will
enable businesses to move forward to a higher management level
in every aspect. Not only can the system standardize the
managements of metallurgic industry in production, supply and
sales sectors, boost its product quality, shorten the cycle of
capital turnover, increase work efficiency, lower supply costs
and control inventory stock, but can also extend to other
fields and its excellent practical extension to many areas
like e-commerce, CRM and SCM, database, data mining, web
searching, web shopping, web ordering, etc. is already a fact
today. This system makes a business turn into a new
costumer-centric system with a view to satisfying ever
changing market needs and forming a costumer-oriented and
packed service management regarding marketing, sales,
production, supply and quality control.
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