Global and open-minded, regional and familiar – this is the motto of TOX® PRESSOTECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG. Characterized by high quality standards and customer satisfaction, the company designs and manufactures individual solutions tailored to specific customer requirements, including pressing, riveting, clinching and punching for a wide range of industries. From individual components to fully customized special-purpose machines, TOX® offers a broad product range that is manufactured not only at its headquarters in Weingarten but also at five other locations worldwide.
Reliable deadlines, a high level of transparency and a reduction in work in progress and throughput time by 30 percent are the result of optimized planning by FELIOS.
“If we compare Weingarten with our site in China, we handle roughly the same volume of orders. In Germany, however, we have only half as many people available to process them.”
The growing order volume and increasing market dynamics have significantly raised the demands on production planning. This was further complicated by the concept of 'simultaneous engineering', where production scheduling begins even before the product design is finalized. As a result, there are permanent changes to the ongoing process.
All these challenges prompted the company to look for a dynamic planning system. In view of this complexity, the SAP ERP system in combination with Excel spreadsheets was no longer sufficient for reliable planning.
At TOX® PRESSOTECHNIK, FELIOS has been used as a supplement to the existing SAP ERP system since 2012 and is implemented via standardized interfaces. This enables the add-on to retrieve all planning-relevant data from SAP, write it back after processing, and create optimized schedules to achieve the best possible overall results.
THE RESULT
“With FELIOS, we can now conveniently reschedule even complex and constantly changing orders.”
Michael Laub, responsible for scheduling / work preparation, warehouse logistics and facility management at TOX® PRESSOTECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG
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