Plastics & Rubber

Whether you produce these products by Injection Moulding, Blow Moulding or Extruders you have common issues of  control of Additives or Colourants and mixing to fill hoppers requiring batch bills of material. You want to plan for yields and monitor actual yield. Bills of Material These need to allow flexibility for alternative raw materials and often with the preparation of pre-mixes.

Standard mix sizes with material percentages in the mix are provided so that you can view the materials as either percentages or pick quantities for a mix.

For injection moulding you may produce more than one product in a shot and your system needs to be able to plan and cost this effectively. If you manufacture rubber products you will need to construct your bills allowing for pph of rubber. The Aware Enterprise System provides all this functionality and more.

Routings

These need to provide the option to use alternative machines with different run rates and therefore, different costings. If you have injection or blow moulding you need to be able to enter the shots per hour and cavities for use in the scheduling and performance monitoring.

Scheduling

You will often have large investments in equipment and often running multiple shifts to improve your return on investment. Consequently, you need to be able to schedule effectively both machines and people to ensure production time is maximised.

The Aware Scheduler will load all unscheduled jobs automatically based on rules you set. The schedule can then be manipulated by your production scheduler to achieve the best result. The Aware scheduler automatically reshuffles all the following jobs when an operation is moved.

Quality Management

Aware provides comprehensive Quality Management functions including tracking of all testing performed on the product during and after production. The system fully conforms to ISO9001 standards.

Traceability

Full batch control provides seamless tracking of batch numbers throughout the supply chain. From a Finished Product Batch Number all the Batch Numbers of intermediate and purchased products which went into the batch are listed. Similarly Entry of a Supplier Batch Number shows all batches of Intermediate Product and Finished Product it went into and which shipments to customers included these products.

Marketing Tools

This industry wants comprehensive marketing tools to succeed in a highly competitive environment. The Aware CRM provides the tool for Sales Reps to manage their relationships with their customers. Aware also provides powerful forecasting, pivot table and graphical analysis of the detailed sales data collected over many years. The system integrates seamlessly with third party analysis tools such as Phocas.