METALLURGY
TOWARDS SMART CASTING
Funcasa MEIN is a company dedicated to the manufacturing of components for diverse machinery (forestry, recycling, wood, metal, and stone processing) using the shell molding process. Currently, it is expanding its focus towards high-demand sectors such as railways.
CHALLENGE
Funcasa is in the midst of a transformation, reorienting its strategy towards higher-value products and international markets, which requires modernizing its information systems.
They faced the lack of a robust data model, manually entered, scattered, and duplicated data, and unconnected machines that could not support the new traceability and efficiency requirements.
SOLUTION
With Savvy, it is possible to extract, process, and present data effectively for decision-making, in a simple way.
The most outstanding solutions have been:The capture of data from old PLCs.
The way of processing information in a structured manner and preparing it to add value.
The powerful data visualization and analysis tools.
RESULTS
Funcasa MEIN has gone from a process visibility that largely depended on what the operators reported, to now having total and real-time visibility of what is actually happening on the machines.
This translates into continuous process improvement, with the optimization of each stage by precisely identifying the quality of the production process and its relationship with the characteristics of the parts, as well as effective control of production times that allows for tighter and more precise planning.