Production
Perfect production planning for optimized processes
Scalable
Suitable for small to large production facilities
Cutting optimization
Great optimization thanks to smart algorithms
Compatible
Linkable to external ERP systems
Higher-level process optimization
Combined packaging optimization
About the Product
In conjunction with a more streamlined production process, you’ll find our software solution also flexibly configures production planning with various constraints, such as machines and processing sequences, all in an effort to improve your processes. Our software solution ensures optimized control over production batches, racks, and storage locations, employing state-of-the-art algorithms for precise waste optimization.
A+W Production offers flexibility and scalability, suitable for both small and large production environments. Compatible with various ERPs, it seamlessly integrates into existing systems, providing comprehensive production optimization solutions.
Unique cutting optimization algorithms guarantee maximum efficiency. Integration of capacity planning and production data acquisition enhances production control and processes.
Want to do more with A+W Production? Connect it to module extensions, such as the A+W Capacity Planner, A+W Barcode Manager, or A+W Production Terminal, which allow the system to scale and meet your newest needs and goals, so that the system grows with your company.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Plan and control production utilizing various restrictions, including machines, process sequences, etc.
- Quickly and easily manage orders and batches
- Optimize yield with state-of-the-art algorithms
- Sequence optimization as well as rack and storage space organization and optimization
- Optimization directly on racks and in boxes in shipping sequence (Software Module Extension: A+W Rack Optimizer)
- Visualization and modification of the cutting plan
- Simple machine management and direct machine control
- Efficient and graphical capacity planning (Software Module Extension: A+W Capacity Planner)
- Full integration of PDA and tracking (Software Module Extension: A+W Barcode Manager)
- Up-to-date statistics thanks to Crystal Reports and QLIK
- Printout production documents, bending texts, and barcode labels
With A+W Production, you have access to the latest production data and its current status allowing you to quickly react to changes and continuously improve. This software solution offers you a wide range of evaluation options to analyze and optimize your production processes.
Want to find out more about A+W Production? We will be happy to answer your questions and advise you on the best software solutions for your company.
Satisfied Customer Voices
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Flachglas Schweiz
With A+W Production, we can plan and conduct our production much more efficiently, especially in the interplay with production control and completion reporting by plant data collection. Currently, we are working with A+W on the implementation of a breakage pool, with which we can reproduce defective lites quickly.
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Osby Glas
With A+W iQuote, anything that is ordered can actually be built. The entire order runs through a restriction check based on master data stored in A+W Business. The customer transmits a technically correct complete order to us. There are no questions and time-consuming clarifications by telephone or e-mail. This is how we can achieve much greater efficiency in the entire order process.
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Reflex
My father always used to strive for the optimum production solution. This also applies to the software we are using. We have therefore been using A+W software for more than 30 years, and have never looked back. Another important criterion for us is service. At A+W, this is solution-oriented; their experts know their job and communicate excellently with our staff and machinery partners.
Popular Add-ons
Clarity
Production Terminal
A+W Production Terminal transforms production processes within the glass industry by utilizing robust capabilities and an user-friendly interface. This software solution facilitates interactive process visualization, real-time production data acquisition, and seamless control.
One notable feature the A+W Production Terminal is its ability to visualize pane setups, dimensions and processing steps, and provide employees with a clear overview of ongoing processes that require immediate intervention when necessary. Additionally, each terminal supports the display of CAD drawings and document links, which enhance communication and collaboration throughout production.
The integration of A+W Barcode Manager with the A+W Production Terminal is another key aspect, enabling efficient booking of breakage slices and reasons, along with machine status feedback and automatic scrap handling, which collectively enhances productivity, efficiency and processing quality.
- Visualize pane structures, dimensions, and processing steps
- Display of CAD drawings
- Document links for enhanced communication and collaboration
- Booking of breakage and reason
- Booking and feedback of machine status
- Automatic reject handling with implemented downstream concept
- Fully customizable user interface
- Control via foot panel for convenient operation
- Display rack information for subsequent processes
- Online printing of labels
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
With the A+W Production system, we manage our complex product mix very flexibly. No more sheets are lost. And there are almost no complaints. We produce much greater quantities in the same amount of time. In addition, cutting has generally become more flexible and yield has increased significantly. The realtime optimization and automatic breakage pool also make a contribution here – poor sheets are remade immediately and can frequently still be delivered with the main order.
In addition to the quality of the software, the implementation and maintenance of such a system requires a strong, steady partner with experienced specialists who can react quickly and solve even difficult problems reliably. This is where our trust in A+W paid off completely. A+W software is a strong product, behind which there is a strong, innovative company. This is why we have satisfied customers and low complaint rates.
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Capa View
Interested in monitoring your production capacity utilization or tracking the progress of individual orders and batches? A+W Capa View provides immediate access to production status information, while also seamlessly connecting to A+W Barcode Manager and/or Production Terminal for real-time updates.
A+W Capa View has a user-friendly interface offers clear and concise displays of production data, with detailed information available that’s just a double-click away. Customize views based on shifts or daily operations, and configure them according to your preferences.
A+W Capa View’s standout feature lies in its customizability, allowing real-time utilization overviews and views of configurable machine groups for enhanced production control.
- Status information per order and/or per batch
- Strong interconnection with A+W Barcode Manager and/or Production Terminal
- Individualized adjustable information display, e.g., shift-based vs. daily information
- Production completion feedback
- Integrated in A+W Business or stand-alone in order entry
Business
A+W Business is a complete ERP system for small and medium-sized companies. This commercial solution allows not just the entry of quotations, orders, credit notes, complaints, delivery notes, and the management of purchase orders and inquiries, but also control of other company areas (e. g. stock, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
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Rack Optimizer
A+W Rack Optimizer transforms the packaging process in insulating glass production by enabling direct packaging and maximing the utilization of packaging materials. This ensures consistent packaging quality, while reducing reliance on employee expertise.
The software considers unloading sequences and allows for customized sequencing to balance weight and optimize rack loading/unloading, minimizing the needs for order picking and reducing transport costs A 3D visualization provides detailed previews and graphic instructions for packaging optimization.
- Increasing productivity on the IG line, addressing bottlenecks
- Eliminate re-sorting requirements in dispatch
- Potential use of robots for stacking and packaging
- Reduced breakage and rejects through automated glass packaging
- Automatic weight balancing and limit check for packing racks
- 3D pack view for detailed rack loading visualization and item identification
- Manual lite movement using the 3D pack view editor
- Special mode for cases
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
Standalone
Solutions without ERP system
Clarity
Defect Optimizer
Do your customers complain about faulty sheets/windows after installation? If you’re dealing with customer complaints about faulty glass or spending resources on reproducing units due to defects, then you have already incurred considerable costs in producing (and shipping) the sheet. And now you are investing again to reproduce a sheet and, if necessary, send it to the customer again.
Why not detect the defects before cutting and take them into account during optimization?
A+W Defect Optimizer detects defects before cutting, saving you time and money. With statistically only 0.6 defects per jumbo, it identifies and corrects defects by rearranging sheets to maintain the overall sequence. In cases where defects are unavoidable, A+W Defect Optimizer offers a cost-effective solution by cutting small, low-cost sheets for defects and automatically recutting them. Defects on remaining sheets are saved, so they do not need to be detected again when used.
- Early detection of errors in the production chain
- Error detection, error correction, error prevention: optimization takes errors per jumbo into account, rearranges lites and attempts to maintain the overall sequence
- If errors cannot be avoided - small (cheap) lites for errors + automatic remakes
- Defects are saved for remaining sheets - no additional detection necessary!
- Integration with quality scanners for accurate defect detection or based on the coordinates from your supplier
- Real-time optimization to recalculate the existing results
- Machine control updates during cutting process
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.