A paperless & connected shopfloor.
A web application for managing master data and production configuration, fully tailored to the production process.
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Our client is a multinational company in the chemical industry with Belgian roots and operations in more than 60 countries. The company develops high-performance polymers that are used in a wide range of applications, including the automotive industry, telecommunications, and household and industrial appliances.
Challenge
The client aims to expand its production site with a new production line focused on digitalization and automation, enabling paperless operations, improving product quality, and reducing human error, while also serving as a pilot for the future conversion of existing lines.
Expertise
Our solution, fully tailored to the production process, provides a web application for managing master data and production configuration, seamlessly integrated with GE Workflow, which guides operators through the process and exchanges data with the production line.
The Solution: A Paperless Shopfloor.
De Roeve delivered an automation and digitalization solution resulting in a paperless, connected shop floor that boosts production efficiency.
Automated Workflow
Automated workflows guide operators step by step through the process, greatly reducing the impact of potential human errors.
Connectivity
Seamless integration with multiple standalone machines throughout the production line to transmit production parameters.
Integration-ready
Fully integrable between SAP and the production line.
Centralized System
Our custom solution meets the client’s requirements by centralizing all master data management, including material composition, safety guidelines, production parameters, line-specific configurations, and weighing steps, in one unified system.
Real-Time Production Traceability
All actions and results are logged and reported, giving the customer clear visibility through predefined reports, including batch usage per order.
Customer value.
Delivering Smarter Industrial Operations
Automated workflows reduce the impact of human error by guiding operators step by step, while centralizing master data into one system replaces scattered, manual records with a single source of truth. Seamless integration with SAP and the production line's standalone machines means data flows automatically instead of being re-entered by hand, and real-time traceability gives the client clear, on-demand visibility into every batch and order. The result is a pilot that doesn't just improve this one line. It gives the client a validated blueprint, and the confidence, to convert the rest of their production site.
Meet the expert.
Nele Perdu
Team lead Industrial IT