Managing Automation - March 2008 - (Page 25) be more easily integrated with other key Portucel Viana applications. Because its production control and scheduling systems also come from Honeywell, for example, they include out-of-thebox integrations with OptiVISION. That means that, as OptiVISION translates customer orders into production orders and passes them to Portucel Viana’s scheduling system, managers at within the limits asked by the customer, unless we have a technical problem in a paper machine or something like that, we can for sure deliver what the customer is asking for,” Ribeiro says. OptiVISION also comes with pre-built integration with Portucel Viana’s quality management application, Quality OptiMISER, another Honeywell application. That integration allows the company to make sure that customer “Now, in the moment of production, we specifications taken in as part of the origcan check and see that we are respecting inal order are actually complied with at every stage of production. quality before cutting the holes for each “Before, we could only check on qualiorder.” — Portucel Viana’s Ribeiro ty after production,” Ribeiro says. “Now, in the moment of production, we can the company can calculate the optimal produccheck and see that we are respecting quality tion schedule and give the customer a reliable before cutting the holes for each order.” availability date. The end result, Ribeiro says, has been an “Now, we are sure that when we accept an overall improvement in on-time customer delivorder, if the system gives us a production date eries and a reduction in manual processes. s Portucel Viana ● Industry: Corrugated board and paper for packaging Size: 300 employees Integration Initiative: Replaced a collection of unintegrated, standalone systems managing various parts of the order management, scheduling, and quality processes with an integrated set of software Benefits to Date: Elimination of manual processes, improved scheduling, on-time deliveries, and better visibility into quality ● ● ● 25 March 2008
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