Prymetall Optimizes Production Process

's-Hertogenbosch, October 31, 2006
With an annual production of some 780,000 tons, Prymetall GmbH & Co. KG in Stolberg near Aachen, Germany, is one of Europe’s top 5 manufacturers of copper and copper alloy semi-finished products. In 2002 Prymetall was acquired by Norddeutsche Affinerie AG of Hamburg, the largest copper producer in Europe.

In November 2004 Prymetall tasked software experts Quintiq in the Netherlands, with the implementation of an innovative Advanced Planning & Scheduling system (APS) based on the Quintiq Application Suite that was to make planning processes in the rolling and drawing plant more efficient. The solution is tailored to the production requirements of metalworking operations, which typically input a limited number of raw materials and then smelt, cast, extrude, roll, draw, anneal, plate and slit them to produce a large number of products for a very wide variety of markets. At each process step, the production process can branch in different directions for different end products – a complexity conventional ERP systems cannot handle.

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About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain management solutions. The fast-growing Dutch company, established in 1997, offers software for planning, optimizing and automating complex business processes throughout the enterprise. Deloitte has recognized Quintiq as being one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe, and Gartner has acknowledged Quintiq for its innovative products and market presence. The company’s HQ is in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands and it has subsidiaries in Germany, UK and the USA.

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