Manufacturing software aids efficiency

Production Logistics Pty Ltd
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Tuesday, 13 July, 2004


Melbourne-based industrial injection moulder CL Plastics & Consultants has been an Aspect PL user for over 5 years.

General manager Rob Parker said that Aspect PL has made a crucial strategic contribution to achievement of high levels of customer service and manufacturing efficiency.

"At CL Plastics we specialise in high-tech engineering thermoplastics for specialty applications in areas like medical equipment, agriculture, water pumping and filtration. We have been able to achieve both high levels of customer service and manufacturing efficiency through the visibility and precise control provided by Aspect PL.

"Aspect PL has enabled us to increase our floor space and moulding capacity, to cope with increased demand, without any increase in production planning staff levels. It also contributed greatly to us achieving quality accreditation quickly, simply and cost effectively." he said.

Aspect PL is a real-time machine monitoring and production control software package developed in New Zealand in response to the specific needs of a NZ plastic moulding company. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of discrete product manufactures such as injection moulders, die casters, repetition engineers and blow moulders.

Aspect PL runs on a standard computer network and is web-enabled so managers or owners can see how their plant is performing in real-time from anywhere in the world.

It is licensed on a machine basis so companies can provide access to all relevant employees without additional costs.

It also complements the operation of Kan-Ban systems.

For smaller companies, without ERP or MRP, Aspect BA (the Business Applications Module) is available that provides additional functionality. This module provides features including product costing, stock control, order intake, order picking and dispatch functions.

Parker continues: "One of the features of Aspect PL is the linked documents feature which enables existing quality and process documentation to be integrated with little effort.

"The production monitoring screen and drag and drop visual scheduler provides all users with a real-time view of what is actually happening on machines at that point in time - it is truly a revolutionary approach to production planning and control and involves a major culture change.

"We have found Aspect PL to be very user-friendly with the upgrade path well able to address our requirements as we have grown."

Aspect PL is fully portable - it will operate on PDA devices providing a handheld mobile access almost anywhere in a factory.

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