MES and Integrated Management for Wire and Cable Manufacturing
Connect visibility and traceability across wire drawing, stranding, extrusion and cabling.
Industry background
Wire and cable supports power, construction, communications and manufacturing. Often called the economy's “arteries” and “nerves”, it carries electricity and information and is essential to motors, instruments, meters and electromagnetic-energy conversion in an electrified, information-based society.
Published industry background reports that wire and cable accounted for one quarter of the output value of China’s electrical industry, ranked second only to automotive, achieved a product-variety fulfilment rate and domestic market share both exceeding 90%, and overtook the United States in total wire-and-cable output value. Enterprise numbers and technical standards also increased.
Technical architecture
The solution uses a message-driven dynamic enterprise-information system based on XT Framework. Object-oriented and component-based design and intelligent data caching support security, stability, extensibility, maintainability, continuity of design and reuse of resources.
- Integrated collaboration between design, process-planning and production departments.
- A three-tier architecture for security and flexibility.
- Configurable built-in parameters and customizable interfaces.
- Fully modular composition and end-to-end workflow navigation.
- Custom enquiry schemes and printing are available throughout workflows.
- Report-development functions and multi-level data traceability.
- Component-based visual data acquisition supporting secondary development.
- SPC process-quality analysis using international-standard algorithms, with multiple monitoring, reporting and early-warning methods.
Application scope
The integrated solution is driven by sales orders and forecasts, centred on production management and uses manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) for overall planning balance. It connects information processes across internal and external operations. Users select modules to suit their business.
- Manage cable-product model data and automatically calculate production schedules and material-supply plans to reduce manual calculation effort.
- Optimize logistics and connect supply and demand chains, targeting economical purchasing, lean inventory and rapid sales.
- Support efficient, lean and collaborative cable manufacturing through acquisition, dynamic scheduling, cut-to-length control, quality optimization, material supply and SPC, aiming at make-to-demand and specified-length manufacturing.
- Automatically roll up complex BOMs and routings for standard-cost control.
- Trace the origins and subsequent use of business data.
- Configure executive enquiries with the reporting centre to provide timely, comprehensive and accurate decision support.
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