Cimteq Ltd. has announced a partnership with a leading Italian planning and scheduling company to give cable makers a set of products to enhance performance and accuracy of sales quotations and manufacturing.Cimteq Ltd. is a British company that produces CableBuilder, a cable design software. Cybertec is an Italian company that produces Cyberplan. CableBuilder and CyberPlan are complementary tools that help cable makers to provide world-class customer service and reduce costs as the same time. The new partnership between Cimteq and Cybertec brings the industry a modular set of tools to leverage comparative advantage in a very comparative global market. Furthermore our tools will adopt to the working practices of the organization rather than to impose alien rules. The advantage is a quick implementation time and minimum risk to the cable maker. We have long recognised that a traditional cable industry needs sophisticated techniques and tools to modernise its approach to Cable Making. The tools and methodologies that we bring the industry have been long tried and tested by discreet manufacturers with proven benefits. It is unimaginable that a car manufacturer would not use Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to design and simulate its product. It is equally unimaginable for a construction company not to use planning simulation to ensure delivery of a multi million Euro project. CableBuilder and CyberPlan bring competitiveness to the market place by allowing cable makers to making traditional products smarter. Competitiveness ultimately divides in two respects, quality and price. Quality is probable more important than price. For example, if you are buying a car, you would buy the best quality car for your budget. You never go to the cheapest car dealer and buy the cheapest possible car. Furthermore if you are either delighted with the car dealer's quality of service, or the quality of the product, then you may even go over you budget. And you will always be coming back. Quality starts from the first contact with the client, generally through a price enquiry. This is where we pick up the trail with CableBuilder. CableBuilder is capable of designing cables and generating quotation within minutes. That is, preparation of technical information as well as price and packaging data. CableBuilder is even capable of veering prices according to material price fluctuations. Traditionally, cable manufacturers would take hours or even days to complete a quotation. Imagine the delight of the customer if you have provided him with a quotation in minutes for his special cable. He would be even more delighted if you could also give him an accurate due date for his order. That is the quality of service the Cimteq and Cybertec partnership will bring to cable makers. The price if a cable has a direct relationship to the design and manufacturing processes. The first step is to ensure the cable design is accurate with best cost performance. That means, the best design recipe of materials and processing instructions. The second step in reducing cost is to plan production orders to minimise machine set up times, start up scrap, minimise Work-In-Progress and deliver customer orders to the promised date. It is clear that the second step may not yield satisfactory result unless planning is done with accurate recipes. We again see the partnership of design and planning hence the natural union between Cimteq and Cybertec. About Cimteq LtdSince 1998, Cimteq Ltd. (formerly Electronic Magic Ltd.) has focused on the development and delivery of knowledge-based design solutions that help Wire and Cable producing companies to improve their business performance. The unrivalled domain expertise and deep industry experience that is accumulated within Cimteq results in innovative and industry focused applications and services that help our customers to reduce waste, improve efficiency and achieve competitive advantage. About CybertecCybertec is specialised in advanced planning and scheduling software. Since 1991, Cybertec have gain a signifigant experience in different manufacturing environment, especially cable production. Cyberteq have helped over 250 companies improve their production flow, plant, personnel and capital use, and reached short, precise and reliable delivery times. For more information please contact:Ali Shehab Copyright © 2008 Cimteq Ltd. All rights reserved. |
