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Planning, Scheduling & MES Solutions
A metals industry supply chain faces some unique problems that make balancing conflicting objectives of customer service, manufacturing lead time/Inventory reduction and productivity a real challenge:
- Highly competitive economic environment is driving improvements in customer services and cost reduction
- Manufacturing equipment is capital intensive and needs to be fully utilised to achieve expected return on investment
- Process unreliability and complex production cycles require inventory buffers and long manufacturing lead times to avoid poor equipment utilisation
- Long lead times generate demand volatility and excessive rush orders which are counter-productive
- Complex process paths and multiple bottlenecks make material flow planning and line balancing difficult
- Energy costs & emissions are increasingly more important
Metals companies are looking to supply chain management solutions to increase customer services without sacrificing productivity or cost.
Broner Metals Solutions is the only company that is dedicated to metals alone and has a complete integrated supply chain management solution that is based on configurable, packaged modules that encapsulate the unique requirements of the metals industry.
For Steel, Broner provides solutions for all areas from the blast furnace, steel making and casting through hot & cold rolling to finishing and despatch. Broner solutions are applicable to all types of steel mill from integrated strip mills, plate mills, through rod and bar mills to section and pipe mills.
For Aluminium, Broner provides solutions for all areas of Primary and Secondary production from the initial refining of bauxite into alumina, through the smelting process, to the casting of ingots or billets, and then through alloying to casting, rolling, finishing, slitting and despatch.
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