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Production data in the casting process – your most valuable asset!

Why are there many corporate software solutions but only one "Foundry Resource Planning" (FRP®)?

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Thomas Fritsch, Chief Editor

Collecting data in the foundry, “Foundry 4.0”, Artificial Intelligent, Digitalization, on the way to the Smart Foundry and then, so what do we do with all the data, the ideas and good advice in practice?

"The foundry is basically something very special! The casting process is one of the few production processes in which a part is created by a liquid and it is a real challenge to master this process properly ", this is how it is in short in many foundries explains Ronald Kreft, Managing Director at RGU GmbH. Now and since personal meetings are possible again, we arranged to meet at their headquarters in Dortmund for a discussion, connected online was also the managing partner of RGU Asia, Christian Kleeberg, who looks after APAC, the Middle East and South Africa with his team, joining us from Singapore.

It's always about the basic structure - even in the foundry!

No matter how things go, you have to be prepared or you will have problems, no matter what, the basic structure has to be right and RGU has been dealing with this since the late 1990s. Initially for different industrial sectors, but very soon with a focus on the foundry industry.

Ronald Kreft and his 35 employees in Dortmund know what they are doing, because they deal with integrated software solutions for the foundry industry and when data is collected, then a real plan is needed and the courage to implement it.

The company's founders were already thinking about how to map foundry processes back then, the complete production process starting from a request for quotation downright to the casting with certification, with full software platform support, all this resulted in the creation of the "resource plan", which is now identical to the "Digital Twin" approach.

Truly ahead of their time, they included production planning and controlling, cost-controlling and cost-planning to the resource plan, and that was the birth of FRP® - Foundry Resource Planning.

All RGU employees have a connection to the foundry and to software and concentrate exclusively on software solutions for the foundry industry. In doing so, RGU offers different solutions that are all oriented towards the "Digital Twin" concept. These solutions can cover sub-areas, be standardized (corporate) solutions or tailormade individually and then be used at different levels:


 

Most companies already collect data with partly different systems, it depends on the level of integration and (data) transparency!

What if companies are already busy collecting data or working with SAP in different areas? No problem, says Ronald Kreft, that is quite normal, we always look at what is feasible and what can be integrated.

These are the daily requirements of the company, which has been globally active for almost 15 years. In the meantime, there are a lot of real success stories and we are looking forward to presenting one or the other practical example in our own articles in the future.

It's all about precise starting points if you're thinking about getting in touch with RGU staff, because RGU GmbH and its subsidiaries and partners, with their experience in both foundry and IT worlds, offer advice at your eye level.

This results in transparent and efficient solutions that are written in the language of the industry and in which the process participants in the foundry find themselves. Software implementation always involves feasibility and efficiency analyses in close cooperation with the aim of making the processes more productive and economical.

RGU, these three letters originally stand for the German expession of „Computer Aided Corporate Controlling and Consulting“ ("Rechnergestützte Unternehmensführung und Beratungs GmbH"). The company name has everything you need and the FRP® system is ONLY for foundries, what else do you want?

We have posted a first white paper for you in our white paper section, we will provide comprehensive information on the topic in a series of 6 editions, read the current part 1 https://www.foundry-planet.com/whitepapers/webinars/whitepapers/show/collecting-data-in-the-casting-process/

Company Info

RGU GmbH

Karl-Harr Str. 1
44263 Dortmund
Deutschland / Germany

Telephone: +49 (0) 231 41 997 0

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