Perlen Packaging, the internationally active group of companies in foil manufacturing and film coating, recently presented the new MES suite CAT from T.CON GmbH at the end of March 2011.
As a systems provider of packaging films with a clearly defined pharmaceutical profile, the company takes profit from using a Manufacturing Execution System fully integrated into SAP ERP. It enables the company to run the production fulfillment and tracking processes geared to the needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
Intelligent manufacturing processes are the strategic goal of businesses in the manufacturing industry. Production Intelligence is the strategic aspect of the manufacturing facilities for its production relations. By the seamless integration of SAP ERP with all shop floor confirmation tasks, these requirements were ideally solved for Perlen Packaging.
The commissioning of the system ran almost perfectly. The acceptance of the system by users was very good, no one missed the old system. It was important to prove that it is possible to perform a complex enterprise-wide MES implementation on time and without affecting the daily business.
Perlen Packaging now runs a MES that provides the basis for production intelligence by content linking. New information can be generated and the attributes for simplified analysis are now available. This is not least the continuous improvement process (CIP) benefit and considers sufficiently the human factor of valid order confirmation in practice. Rapid access to current business indicators is made possible by the use of the Business Information Warehouse SAP BI.
