Combining data from different IT systems and machinery delivers crucial information for optimising production
For more than 30 years, the Austrian company Schinko has been an established manufacturer of machine housings. The company sees digital transformation as an essential part of its strategy, which is why it is focusing on digitalising the core activity of its business: production. The most important goal for Schinko was to track what is happening in real time on the shopfloor and use this information to optimise production flows and processes. GFT was appointed as a consulting and implementation partner to work on the following:
- Gather data from different machines (laser cutting machine, punching and bending machine) as well as different software systems like ERP and Line Metrics – Cloud
- Create logical links between various data sources using algorithms and calculation logic to merge related data sets (e.g. from orders), or calculate key figures such as strokes per minute at order level
- Provide advice on creating meaningful dashboards based on all collected data over different time periods such as the here and now, individual days, weeks or months