Description
ystematic production and process digitization are becoming competitive advantages for businesses such as steel service centers and fabricators. To meet the rapidly changing needs of our customers and the customers they serve, Messer’s mission is evolving from providing solely first-rate machinery to also guiding our customers into their digital transformation with our Intelligent Cutting™ service.
With our Intelligent Cutting™ service, a key part of the Messer Experience, we ensure that every experience is positive and consistent. Together we are your partner in mastering today’s challenges. In that spirit, we provide solutions to businesses and create automation around your production processes. Together, we can build digital strategies to advance your company above your competition, making you competitive now and in the future.
Intelligent Cutting™ can boost your business’s efficiency and productivity, decrease downtimes and errors, and save money.
Digitization not only helps improve your business’s efficiency and raise productivity, but provides products and services with unique selling points for your customers. Also dubbed as Industry 4.0, the digitization revolution has helped companies such as Amazon generate its first $1 billion in revenue in just five years.
Transforming your business to a digital operation can only result in tremendous money and time savings for your business, but improves workflow and creates ease and satisfaction for your team.
In a snapshot, when your business digitizes your production, your team can:
- Enjoy having access to production information in real-time.
- Share information with all parties involved in the production.
- Record all running processes and see their status at a glance.
- Track your production orders completely and consistently.
- Test and simulate virtual changes in your production.
- Implement improvements faster.
- Discover potential mistakes.
- Work more efficiently, reduce costs and save resources.
When your business brings aboard Industry 4.0 digitization advancements, your whole value chain can also benefit from:
- Efficient machine utilization that delivers a greater output.
- Detecting and reducing money-wasting errors.
- Minimized and shortened downtimes.
- Enhanced scalability.
- Increased freedom to add to new innovative projects.
Let’s explore a number of features that Messer’s Intelligent Cutting™ service can introduce to your business and the many benefits they will provide as part of the Messer Experience.
Paperless production can expedite the production process while providing competitive advantages.
One benefit of Messer’s Intelligent Cutting™ is moving your business to paperless production. In the steel and thermal cutting industry for example, all production information assets and production processes—sales orders, work preparation instructions, production orders and schedules, part unloading information and delivery packaging instructions—can be converted into digital form. This conversion process can lead to virtually paperless production with complete transparency, ensuring everyone involved in the production process has access to real-time information required to execute tasks and provide system feedback.
One benefit of Messer’s Intelligent Cutting™ is moving your business to paperless production. In the steel and thermal cutting industry for example, all production information assets and production processes—sales orders, work preparation instructions, production orders and schedules, part unloading information and delivery packaging instructions—can be converted into digital form.
This conversion process can lead to virtually paperless production with complete transparency, ensuring everyone involved in the production process has access to real-time information required to execute tasks and provide system feedback.
When your business eliminates outdated work instructions, your team can work with greater efficiency, agility and flexibility. Your team can also reduce waste, end “tribal knowledge,” meaning only a select few know assets and processes well, and help your business reap financial rewards that can help increase your competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Connected machines help provide data and eliminate the need for questions about production orders.
Another benefit Messer’s Intelligent Cutting™ service can help your business with is to create an environment of connected machines. When your business’ machines are able to gather and share relevant data as part of an integrated digital environment, your business stands to reap the maximum benefits the entire digitization process can provide.
Digitization at the machine level begins with automatically transmitting the most up-to-date production orders to machines so operators can make decisions while having access to the latest production plan. Your team will no longer be burdened with finding the answers to production order questions such as “Is this part already cut?”, “Is this order already packaged and ready for shipment?” and “What was my machine utilization this shift?” All these questions will be easily answered, thanks to having connected machines in your workplace.
This kind of transparency also provides the data that’s required for your business to achieve continuous production processes and material flow improvements, delivering practically real-time feedback when fine-tuning production processes. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are easily developed and tracked with access to appropriate data.
Finally, connecting machines via Messer’s Intelligent Cutting™ service results in a real-time overview of production, enabling easy comparison of planned vs. actual runtimes. This high level of transparency enables your team to evaluate the true cost per part while ensuring production scheduling reliability. Industry 4.0 production, or digitized production, combined with the latest information and communication technologies guarantees that existing resources will be utilized to their maximum levels. This high-tech production also ensures efficiency in operational management, production planning and control, work preparation, and machine operation. Predictive maintenance helps service and maintenance with their repair needs.
