Selected Customers
About Ruukki
Ruukki supplies components, systems and total solutions to the construction and mechanical engineering industries. The company has a wide selection of metal products and services. Ruukki has operations in 24 countries and employs 12,000 people. Net sales in 2004 totalled EUR 3.6 billion.
Project Scope
The planning solution developed at Ruukki is an implementation of the Quintiq Metal Scheduler Industry Solution and takes into consideration customer-specific constraints, logic and algorithms. Material reservation is supported with a highly interactive form, provided by the Industry Solution, supplemented with Ruukki-specific rules to locate suitable slabs efficiently. Additional support is given by an automatic assignment optimizer.
Next to material reservation, strand creation is supported using a graphical representation of slab sequences and a strand optimizer; also scheduling of sequences on the casters is supported using a gantt chart and a simulation of the upstream resources.
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About ThyssenKrupp Steel
ThyssenKrupp Steel is a global player holding leading positions worldwide. The segment is organized into the business units Steelmaking, Industry, Auto and Processing.
The Steel segment of the ThyssenKrupp Group is focused on the production and distribution of high-quality carbon steel flat products and the provision of product-related services. The segment is based on the operating holding company model and is led by ThyssenKrupp Steel AG as the largest single operating company.
Project Scope
Building on the orders provided and consolidated by ThyssenKrupp’s own systems, the Quintiq APS solution provides an analysis of order backlogs and draws up the initial rough sequencing. It sequences the continuous casters, generating weekly plans and the final casting programs. The software also performs an evaluation of ThyssenKrupp’s key performance indicators (KPIs), productivity and delivery compliance. This KPI analysis functionality ascertains the quality of each sequence and the associated sequence planning in real time.
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About Dofasco
Dofasco is a leading North American steel solutions provider. Product lines include hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized, Extragal™, Galvalume™ and tinplate flat rolled steels, as well as tubular products and laser-welded blanks. Dofasco’s wide range of steel products is sold to customers in the automotive, construction, energy, manufacturing, pipe and tube, appliance, packaging and steel distribution industries.
Project Scope
The Quintiq solution, specified for Dofasco, will support the company in its efforts to optimize its production processes. With Quintiq being interfaced with the existing ERP system, Dofasco plans to reduce inventories, maximize material usage, increase cost visibility and improve delivery performance as well as workforce efficiency. The Quintiq solution will create a single platform replacing the existing diverse systems.
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