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Integration is what makes systems work together, not in pieces.

We bring together conveying, processing, packaging, and automation into a single connected system.

ERP Integration

Organizations that integrate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with production planning achieve significant efficiency gains. Integration can take various forms, using trusted, secure technologies.

Four basic questions:

  • What needs to be made?
  • What resources (materials) are available?
  • What has already been made?
  • What resources have been consumed?
  • Pneumatic conveying system with elevated hoppers, a rotary sifter, and platforms on a polished brown floor.
  • Winding conveyor lines carry white bottles through a bottling plant with overhead blue piping.
  • Stainless steel tanks, a cone hopper, and bags on a mezzanine platform beside orange electrical cabinets.
  • Dense stainless piping surrounds a process skid with a teal-screen HMI panel and stack lights.

Generally, the first two questions are answered by the ERP system, and the remaining two by the production planning and batch management system.

After security, which is paramount, an integration must consider timeliness. Production systems are near real-time. An operator scheduling batches needs to know nearly immediately whether resources are available. Conversely, ERP solutions are satisfied with being five minutes behind real-time, an eternity on the plant floor.

Caching transactions can be extremely important. Internet service providers, on which WANs depend, are not 100% reliable. One of our client’s facilities operated with minimal interruption for three days, using stale inventory data and telephoned production orders, while caching transactions for raw goods consumed and finished goods produced.

Whatever technology ultimately supports the integration, it is best to start with a detailed integration plan that defines each data column for every transaction. Such a plan not only guides development but also precisely documents the integration, benefiting future additions or modifications.

Magnum provided a total solution for us from the start of the plant to the warehouse, (as well as) all the equipment and all the engineering needed to complete our process. Magnum was with us step by step, revision through revision, ensuring us they could fill our needs as a company.

— Chris Gentry, Engineering Manager, The Quartz Corporation
Chris Gentry, Engineering Manager

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