Transcript Software Solutions for the Reinforcement Industry from

LP-SYSTEM
Software for the
Reinforcement
Industry
www.lennerts-partner.de
Presentation of the LENNERTS & PARTNER GmbH
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The headquarter of the LENNERTS & PARTNER
GmbH with 18 employees is situated at Coburg
(Germany).
LENNERTS & PARTNER was founded in 1990 and
resulted from a project for Siemens. At this time a
software was developed to check the power of traction
for produced cables.
Soon this project should be completed and on the
occasion of a student party contacts with the manager
of a rebar shop were established. So we decided to
develop and also to distribute a software solution for
the reinforcement industry.
Presentation of the LENNERTS & PARTNER GmbH
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More than 350 installations in 33 countries The
customers of the LENNERTS & PARTNER GmbH are
structured as follows:
– Pure rebar shops which only use LP-SYSTEM.
– Steel traders which carry on a rebar shop and which
are communicating with its steel trading software via
interface.
– Precast companies which are producing for its own
production but also sometimes supply steel to
construction sites. In precast companies very often
the advantages of the BVBS import are used. Here
the reinforcing data can be imported from an own
CAD software without having to create them again
manually.
Presentation of the Software Solution
The software package is structured as follows:
Commercial Module
Technical Module
(Production Planning)
Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
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The commercial module of LP-SYSTEM manages
main data like products, customers, shape code
catalogue, price lists and so on.
The shape code catalogue will be supplied with
approx. 200 shape codes and can be expanded very
easily on one’s own.
In the commercial module the projects with its
schedules and barmarks (steel, mesh, accessories)
are created and managed.
With the basic module all functions are available which
are necessary for a rebar shop to make production
(tag printing) and to create delivery notes and invoices.
The schedules can be summarized to a delivery unit
and a cargo planning can be made.
Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
Products
Customers
Shape code
catalogue
Elements
Price lists
Employees
Main data
Tag colours
Group of products
Trucks
Mode of payment
Financial accounting
parameters
Accounting
information
Text block
User profiles
Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
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LP-SYSTEM has also the function to create/manage
structural elements.
By means of interfaces also reinforcing data can be
imported from external systems. These can come from
a CAD program or can be read in via the BVBSinterface (e. g. Nemetschek). But also the import of
Bamtec/Spinmaster data is possible.
The basic module has two workstation licences which
are embedded in a Microsoft-network. A Microsoft SQL
data base is used which is open to other systems via
ODBC-interface.
Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
Projects
Schedules
Steel barmarks
Partial schedules
Mesh barmarks
Barmarks
Accessories
Elements
Delivery unit
Cargo
Loading control
Delivery note
Invoice
Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
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Beside the basic module there are various additional
modules. These are for example:
– Import/export of schedules into other subsidiaries
– Purchase module
– Import of reinforcement data from a CAD via
BVBS-interface (e. g. Nemetschek)
– Import of Bamtec/Spinmaster data
– Graphical printout of mesh optimization
– User profiles
– Fixing module
– Interface to an accounting package
– Delivery control
– Interface to financial bookkeeping system
– Credit limit control
– Multi-language version
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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The technical module of LP-SYSTEM registers all
machines and its technical parameters. To guarantee
an exact allocation of the barmarks to the right
machines, this is not enough for us. In addition
‘production lines’ are created. Here machines which
are allowed to work physically together are combined
with each other according to logistic and production
technical criteria.
As it happens very often that one barmark can be
produced on one or more machines respectively
production lines, priorities are created in the system.
The priorities clear up for each steel diameter which
machine shall be used first. If this machine cannot
produce the barmark, the machine with the next
priority will be selected.
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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Beside the automatic allocation of all barmarks to the
machines the production planner uses the system in
special in order to make delivery units. One or more
contracts can be allocated to one delivery unit. Within
such a delivery unit the optimization then will be made.
On the one hand a bar cutting optimization is made for
all bar cutting machines, on the other hand the
barmarks of all coil machines are sorted for each
machine so that there will be no sorting of the tags
after printing.
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
Production
planning
Bar cutting
optimizaton
Production unit
Machine utilization
Printing production
documents
Tags,
production lists,
etc.
Machine
downloading
Manual processing
Special machinery
Customized mesh
Bar cutting
machinery
Data summary of produced
barmarks
Coil processing
machinery
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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In the next step all machines can be downloaded.
This can be made either via
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Online-downloading or
Offline-downloading.
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For the online downloading the data on the machine
are called up via barcode and then transferred from
a PC to the machine via cable or wireless.
The offline downloading is working without
connection to the machine as the barcode (PDFbarcode) already includes all data which are required
for downloading.
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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In the final step it is possible to find out via data
summary:
– Who has produced which item at what time
– on which machine and
– how long did it take?
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On the other side it is possible to see on the screen
whether a schedule has already been completely
produced in order for example to inform customer
accordingly by phone. By means of a statistics data for
an output related payment also can be gathered.
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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The system allows you to answer recurring questions
for example:
– What is the current degree of utilization of the
machines?
– When and for which machines does capacity
overload occur?
– Which production time has (had) an order?
– Who produced the separate items of the orders?
– In which state of production is a certain order?
– Which diameters have I produced in the period
XYZ in which quantity?
– Which day’s production did I have on day XYZ?
– Is my machine capacity sufficient for the planned
production?
– In which state of production is the item?
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These questions have a big influence on the planning
and controlling of the processes in rebar shops.
The answers to these questions allow a permanent
overview of the production.
Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
Conclusions
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Transparency
Flexibility
Higher Productivity/Efficiency
 “Saving/Making” Money!
Software Solution LP-LabelMaster
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LabelMaster is a program enabling the management of
master data from the reinforcement industry as well as
entering of schedules and steel lists (BBS).
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It is possible to print steel lists, tags and possibly
cutting lists for the schedules.
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Then the entered bar marks can be transferred directly
to the machines.
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The program is structured modularly and thus an
optimal adaption to customer’s requirements is
possible.
Software Solution LP-LabelMaster
Basic Module
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Management of machines, optimization parameters
and stock lengths, pooling machines to production
lines.
Join of machines to logical production lines.
Creation respectively processing of shape codes.
Management of steel grades and corresponding
diameters.
Simple entry of steel bar marks with graphical creation
of the shape dimensions
Printing of a steel list with graphical output of the
shape.
Printing of tags with graphical output of the shape and
PDF-barcode for offline downloading of the machines.
Manual allocation of bar marks to other machines after
creation of bar marks.
Several languages are supported.
Software Solution LP-LabelMaster
Additional Features
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Bar cutting optimization – higher productivity and
lower material costs by bar cutting optimization
Cutting list – Printing of a cutting list with PDFbarcode for offline downloading of the machines
Online downloading – direct downloading of the
machines via cable with feedback after production of
bar makrs
Cast management – Registration of incoming material
and allocation to produced bar marks with cast
numbers and certificates
Excel-Import – bar marks entered in a Excel file can
be imported. Also bar marks entered in LabelMater can
be exported to Excel for further processing
Multi User Module – LabelMaster can be used on all
workstations of the computer network
Future – LP-SYSTEM
Future – LP-SYSTEM
Customers in Germany and abroad
More than 350 installations in 33 countries
Abu Dhabi
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Bulgaria
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
China
Denmark
Dubai
Faro Islands
Finland
Germany
Hungary
India
Israel
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Norway
Poland
Qatar
Romania
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
Many thanks for
your attention!