Melting and casting is a metal thermal processing technique, serving as one of the fundamental processes in modern mechanical manufacturing industries and an indispensable part of the manufacturing process for electromechanical integrated equipment. Electromechanical integration manufacturing, as a typical branch of the hybrid manufacturing industry, has melting and casting as the process manufacturing aspect in the first half of the product manufacturing process, while the machining aspect in the latter half is characterized by discrete manufacturing.

The hybrid production method, also known as a hybrid process, semi-process, or discrete-continuous process, is a complex production approach that combines both continuous and discrete production processes. It ensures effective management of the internal supply chain within hybrid production companies, helping to reduce costs, improve product quality and delivery times. This poses a challenge to the functionality and flexibility of ERP software. The Fantian Software casting industry solution leverages the flexibility of the Fantian ERP software to start with process formula management and casting techniques within foundry enterprises, assisting in standardizing business processes, ensuring product quality, enhancing production capacity, and achieving refined cost accounting management.

Fangtian Casting ERP Enterprise Management Suite, a comprehensive set of enterprise operation components, to help casting enterprises operate more efficiently, with a casting and melting ERP system architecture diagram.

Fangtian Software's Solution for the Melting and Casting Industry, establishing a formula-based production management process and building a refined cost accounting management system.

1. Refining formula process standard management

The formula-based TianTian melting and casting solution effectively supports a multi-input, multi-output production model:

Supports five types of inputs: material type, equipment type, labor type, miscellaneous type, and operational specification instruction type.

Three types of output can be defined: finished products, by-products, and co-products.

To better gather quality inspection information, pre-set quality inspection plans at each input and output stage, supported by data models, enable the software to collect and produce cost and quality inspection results related to the entire production process.

Supports the functionality to combine multiple formulas into a new processing flow, used to define inventory data, simplify standard production, and streamline all processes between inventory and cost activities.

2. Flexible modeling of the casting production workshop

Most ERP software is not suitable for the complex production site management of foundry and melting enterprises, as their underlying data models are designed for discrete manufacturing businesses. The Fantian Foundry and Melting Solution can achieve:

For the melting and casting process: manage production processes according to formulas.

For the machining process: A rigorous discrete manufacturing business process is incorporated with a batch requirement planning subsystem, enabling better product and semi-finished goods production scheduling, as well as material procurement planning, based on product or equipment capacity. This ensures rational production scheduling, enhancing the executability of production plans; it is also more suitable for planned production and order-based production models, significantly improving work efficiency and accuracy.

3. Quality Control and Traceability Management

The "Centralized Quality Control and Inspection" feature of the "Fangtian Refining and Casting Solutions" provides centralized quality control for all application modules. Businesses can set standard quality inspection plans based on material and transaction types. When actual business transactions occur, the system centrally collects quality inspection results from the entire supply chain.

The Fantian Foundry & Casting Solutions offer batch and serial number tracking for all incoming and outgoing materials. In case of product issues, detailed maintenance records can be kept, and the original production status and materials used for the product can be traced. This also allows for identifying products from the same batch and checking their sales or inventory status.

4. Fangtian + MES Manufacturing Execution System

Strengthen workshop operation planning, allocate personnel and labor hours reasonably, provide timely and accurate production feedback, ensure transparency of production data and schedules, while improving the completion rate of production plans and product delivery times.

Track the entire production process from raw material production to finished product storage with barcode technology, capturing all events in real-time, ensuring full transparency across the factory and workshop.

Ensure clarity and transparency throughout the production process, quickly identify the root causes of quality issues, develop targeted measures to resolve quality bottlenecks, achieve product quality traceability, and reduce quality costs.

Real-time record and monitor production processes, task completion, staff efficiency, labor productivity, equipment utilization, product pass rate, defect rate, and other conditions. Utilize the system's comprehensive statistical information query function to promptly identify issues during execution and implement improvements.

5. Precision Cost Calculation for Casting and Machining

Fangtian Foundry Industry's cost breakdown includes: material costs, labor costs, manufacturing expenses, and processing fees. It also allocates costs across the casting workshop processes, covering various products such as finished products, by-products, by-products, and intermediate products.

The cost calculation method employs a batch and step-by-step approach, offering flexible settings for allocating labor and expenses to accommodate various complex situations. It truly frees financial staff from the tedious manual tasks of data collection and cost allocation, providing management with cost information more quickly and accurately, thereby enhancing the company's management decision-making capabilities.

6. Intelligent Warehouse Management

Innovative integration of barcode labels with RFID technology, intelligent devices throughout the entire logistics process, achieving digital and intelligent control of products.

Establishing application scenarios for automated equipment such as three-dimensional shelves/cabinets, utilizing technologies like the sub-mother cart system, four-way穿梭车 technology, multi-level穿梭车 technology, ground four-way light to heavy AGV technology, goods-to-person picking systems, WMS (Warehouse Management System) software, and WCS (Warehouse Control System) system, achieves the solution: "Shelves + Robots = Automated Storage and Materials Handling System."

7. The integration of Smart Light Industry and Intelligent Manufacturing Scenarios

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The integration of Fangtian Software with relevant intelligent manufacturing hardware equipment: Siemens/Panasonic/Foxconn/Honeywell.

Fangtian Casting's ERP integrated solution for the industry helps businesses create a digital workshop, providing a comprehensive digitalization plan for enterprises from design to production, from procurement to warehousing, and from sales to finance.