Manufacturing and Industrial
Software for Pipe Manufacturing
Extrusion runs where length, wall thickness and pressure class define the product and the certification.
Pipe is made in continuous runs and sold in specified lengths, classes and standards. The specification is the product: a run that drifts on wall thickness is not a lower grade, it is a different product with different certification. Recording run parameters against the batch is what makes a certificate mean anything.
What gets in the way
- Run parameters drift and the effect on class is discovered at testing
- Batch identity is lost between extrusion and the yard
- Test certificates are issued from records assembled afterwards
- Offcuts and short lengths accumulate without being tracked
- Standards differ per customer and are held in individual memory
What the software handles
- Run parameters recorded against the batch as it is produced
- Test results captured per batch with the standard applied
- Batch identity carried into the yard and onto dispatch
- Short lengths recorded with dimensions rather than binned
- Certificates generated from the batch record rather than compiled
What changes
- Certificates that trace to the run they describe
- Class disputes answerable with recorded parameters
- Short lengths sold rather than scrapped
- Customer standards held in the record, not in one person's memory
Software for your pipe manufacturing business
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