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Depuis la configuration de variantes à la production de séries sur mesure

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Généralement, la difficulté lors de la fabrication de produits complexes, comme des outils de précision, consiste à identifier la multitude d'interactions et de tenants et aboutissants, à les renforcer, à les organiser et à les mettre à disposition. Grâce à la configuration de variantes dans le document d'exploitation, MAPAL est en mesure de réagir rapidement aux exigences des clients et de garantir la production d'un produit qui respecte les attentes et les coûts.

« Notre devise : analyser clairement, de manière homogène, totalement et constamment toutes les caractéristiques qu'un tel produit peut avoir », indique Moritz Mäurer au sujet des difficultés liées à la gestion en amont des données de références.

"In the past, entries had to be made entirely by hand – that was a process that took one to three days."

Efficient customer-specific series production

A variant configuration enables sales staff to specify the MAPAL standard tools in intermediate sizes. This makes it possible to configure variants with a diameter down to a thousandth of a millimetre, for example. There is no need to manually enter individual parameters as all other data can be derived based on rules. "In the past, entries had to be made entirely by hand – that was a process that took one to three days", as the Data Object Analyst remembers. "Today, employees can create their material variant with little effort and then get it back fully classified and configured in 30 seconds with a new material number." A work plan and parts list are automatically created in the background and an XLM file is created, so that the documents are later available in the e-shop, for example. According to Moritz Mäurer, there are also automatically generated 3D envelope contours for some series that customers can use for simulations on the machines. 
In a nutshell: if the automated configuration of fully classified material variants is possible with just a few inputs, then this is nothing less than a game changer. MAPAL thus succeeds in efficiently exploiting the opportunities of customer-specific series production.

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