Plataine's Total Production Optimization solution is a complete metal fabrication plant management system that combines real-time shop-floor visibility with the most advanced job-shop scheduling and nesting capabilities.
The system provides you with visibility into the entire manufacturing process and allows you to control and optimize all production activities—from quoting the job through the nesting of the pieces, to cutting, forming, assembly, and shipping.
Automated Real-Time Scheduling -
Eliminate Wait Time Between Stages
As customer orders are received, Plataine automatically assigns the work to the appropriate work centers and machines for cutting, forming, welding, and finishing—all this while considering the current status of each machine, following your defined job priorities and due dates, and minimizing wait time between production stages.
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Maximize Material Utilization with Optimized Nesting
Plataine’s ability to generate the most efficient nesting against any competition has been proven in hundreds of test cases and implementations. One way in which Plataine can increase material utilization is by merging multiple orders. With integrated scheduling and nesting, Plataine can simultaneously optimize both material utilization and delivery times.
Optimize Machine Tool Path
With integrated nesting and tool path programming, Plataine is able to generate high-yield nests while ensuring that tool paths are feasible for your machines, eliminating the need for manual machine programming. Plataine creates optimized tool paths that maximize cutting speed and throughput, allowing you to fulfill your customer orders in the utmost expeditious manner while making the most out of the investment in your equipment.
Define Your Own Rules
Plataine doesn’t force you to change the way you work but rather incorporates your knowledge into the way it operates. The system allows you to define the rules and parameters that make every nest and tool path suitable to the machines you operate, the material you cut, and any other considerations specific to your environment, such as:
- Using common line cutting to increase material yield
- Allowing gaps to be reduced while keeping spacing requirements for individual pieces
- Defining unlimited number of lead types to match material and shape variances
- Maintaining complete control over the cutting process, including cutter speed, vertical movement, and cutting head heat
Better Information – Better Decisions – Better Results
Plataine helps you decide:
- Which order to process
- How to nest and cut the pieces
- On what machine(s)
Plataine helps you know at all times:
- Which orders have been completed
- What each machine is cutting and scheduled to cut
- Your actual material utilization
Plataine helps you improve your bottom line:
- Increase material utilization
- Improve machine throughput
- Shorten delivery times
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