SUPPLIER’S PERSPECTIVE/供应商观点
Planning for the Future 规划未来
Synchro ERP, Gwynedd, U.K., provides metalcasting indus-
try specific enterprise resource planning software around the world. Global Casting Magazine asked the company to provide its views on the industry and how it must adapt its technological resources to the coming age. Chris Collins, Synchro CEO, Simon Adlington, global installation manager, and Barbara Nolan, marketing director, provided the answers.
How long has your company been serving the metal casting industry?
Synchro ERP have been in the Cast Metal software business since 1975; initially known as Dewtec Software Systems. Te first foundry production system was devel- oped by a university lecturer and his students; the software system was deemed a valuable commercial asset and Dewtec Software Systems was born. Synchro ERP is the fourth generation system with each subsequent developed in house; Production Control, MRP/ MRP II and ERP.
How has the casting industry changed over the years? As metal casting production has globalized, and you can
now buy castings from all around the world and still get qual- ity products on your doorstep at the required dates, foundries have been forced to get ever more competitive as the number of foundries competing for ‘their’ business has increased. Tis in turn has meant that ever increasing and complex analy- sis has to be done of all aspects of the foundry to search for ways to reduce cost in all forms. In order to capture this data foundry specific software has developed ever more sophisti- cated methods of data capture and analysis. Fortunately the advancement in technology has greatly aided this process in that we now have touch screen terminals out on the foundry floor both supplying and accepting data, barcoding is now widely used to ensure more accurate data collection and more and more data is now automatically collected from its source rather than having to be manually input (chemical analysis, mechanical property analysis, data from automated produc- tion or processing machines and robot handlers).
How have foundries’ needs changed? In the 30+ years that we have been supplying software to
the foundry, two major things have changed in the way that foundries operate. First, the number of foundries that supply to a wide
range of industries and casting types has sharply reduced and the number of foundries that supply to a niche market has increased. Tis has led to foundries having very specific needs that the software needs to service; some of these include much higher quality requirements, serialized casting tracking, tighter control of metal specification, etc Secondly, foundries have found their customers requiring
英国Gwynedd的 Synchro ERP公司为世界各地的铸 造企业提供定制的企业资源规划软件。《世界铸造》 杂志请该公司提供其对行业的看法，以及其科技资源 如何适应即将到来的时代。Chris Collins, 首席执行官, Simon Adlington, 全球安装经理, Barbara Nolan, 营销 总监, 他们提供的答案。
你们公司为铸造业服务了多久?
Synchro ERP公司在1975年就已经开始铸造软件业 务，最初被称为Dewtec软件系统。第一款铸造厂的生 产系统是由一位大学讲师和他的学生们开发的，这款软 件系统被认为具有商业价值, Dewtec软件系统因此诞生 了。Synchro ERP公司是这个软件系统公司的第四代, 即 从生产控制，到MRP / MRPII和ERP。
铸造业如何改变多年来因为它涉及到生产控制，例如如 何跟踪生产，铸造厂日常工作安排的信息，铸造厂生产 控制的作用等？
由于铸件生产已经全球化，在您的家门口可以买来自 世界各地的铸件，在规定的日期，仍然可以得到优质的产 品，铸造厂已被迫以往任何时候都更具有竞争力，大多数 铸造厂为“他们”的竞争商务活动有所增加。这反过来又 意味着，不断增加和复杂的分析有许多工作要做，各种形 式的搜索各种方式来降低成本。铸造业的专用软件为了捕 捉数据开发越来越复杂的数据采集和分析的方法。幸运的 是，技术的进步极大地帮助我们，现在触摸屏终端均提供 和接受数据，条形码在目前广泛使用，以确保更准确的收 集越来越多数据，这个过程中自动收集数据，而不必手动 输入（如：化学分析，力学性能分析，数据从自动生产或 加工的机器和机器人处获得）
为什么铸造厂需要改变，以及生产控制软件如何来满足 这些改变的需求？
30多年来我们一直给铸造厂提供软件，铸造厂运作的 方式，两个主要的东西已经改变了。
首先，许多铸造厂在铸件类型和所供应的行业的领域大 幅减少，而供应某一特定的市场增加。这导致了铸造厂对
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