The sheet metal industry is looking for a really hefty automation stroke, wants to know everything about the possibilities for this and is willing to invest in it. This conclusion pull Henry Kooiker of Wintheon and Ronald Potter Wicam Benelux from the great interest in their meetings’ Plaatwerken anno 2016 in Deventer and Gorinchem.
No one really knows which way to go with the sheet metal but that the sector faces major changes to what you’ll need, as each sheet metal trader seems well aware. “We see roughly two sides go,” says Henri kooiker . “You have companies that want to be, while others are focused on a kind of bol.com for sheet metal customers around the corner with its serial products to be processed as efficiently as possible.”
Enough make margin
What all plate processors have in common is that their series are varied and smaller and delivery times shorter. In addition, they feel the pressure to make enough margin in that situation. Ronald Potter: “It’s quite a difference whether you may make one product or a series of six. One product anyway lower revenue yields, but the margin you make them is also another smaller because you have to do relatively more. So the set times and the preparation time should be shortened and you have to remain flexible. These are the major needs of the moment. Software can fill these needs to a great extent. Moreover, the volume increases in the companies, producing significant capacity challenges. The past year illustrates this: in 2015 Wicam most machines ever taken by companies using “
Effective software integrations
Wicam. and Wintheon have worked intensively in recent automation projects at BOZ Group in Bergen op Zoom and the Cromvoirtse in Oisterwijk. That gave them the idea to organize the meetings ‘Plaatwerken anno 2016′, especially for SMEs.
Kooiker and Potter agree that plate work anno 2016, plate work with effective software integrations. She informed the participants in the meetings in Deventer and Gorinchem therefore the possibilities in the field of integration, automatic calculation, less inventory and shorter lead times.
These are all topics that strong life. Because they led to firm interaction. A strong point of the meetings was that many different parties together (next Wicam and Wintheon also machine builder LVD, ERP software producer Knight and of course many suppliers), creating a beautiful exchange of information. all the suppliers want to know the capabilities of its software and are very curious about what their colleagues. Together they discussed about what customers in the near future expect from them. It was also discussed what their expectations are from software vendors and the software itself.
One of the conclusions was that the parties in the chain need to cooperate more to good with all the changes to go. Everyone is convinced that will change the customers’ wishes. It will be in the business to business market for sheet metal to be like in the business to consumer market; customers want their material possibly the order in the evening with a appje on their smartphone. There’ll come a variant beslist.nl: who needs sheet metal can on a digital marketplace make its choice between different providers. TNO is currently working on something. There will be a new generation of buyers, which – unencumbered by knowledge but with all the technological possibilities to create a design – such as sheet metal to buy a pair of shoes. “They just load their drawing and that we must take up and process,” predicted one of those present in the hall the future.
In any case, it is important to all the developments together in conversation remain. So see Henri Kooiker and Ronald Potter, too. It’s therefore thick that Wintheon and Wicam next year meetings’ Print Edit anno 2017 “will be organized.
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