PSI BT to Implement Production Management System for V&M Tubes Facility
04/02/2008 - PSI BT GmbH will implement PSImetals, a production management system, for Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes’ tube mill in Aulnoye, France.
Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes has contracted PSI subsidiary PSI BT GmbH to implement the PSImetals production management system at its tube mill in Aulnoye, France.
To ensure production quality at the shop floor level, PSI will supply PSImetals PES (Production Execution System). PSImetals continuously captures and monitors all production and quality data and processes within the tube production complex. The integrated production management system will help to provide reliable material quality throughout the entire production process and to deliver products according to schedule.
PSImetals will be implemented as an integrated production management system as the first project phase for the complete seamless tube rolling process. Phase two, which will cover the heat treatment and several finishing lines, will be implemented separately.
Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes’ goals for the project include single-tube tracking, online inventory management (quantity and valuation), quality assurance, and a higher level of process control and transparency.
The implementation is planned for the end of April this year.
PSI BT, a subsidiary of the PSI Group, is a leading German software solution provider for the metals producing industry in the area of advanced planning & scheduling as well as manufacturing execution.
Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes, a Vallourec Group company, is a world market leader in the manufacture of seamless hot rolled steel tubes for all applications. The company operates eleven state-of-the-art pipe mills in worldwide. V&M TUBES supplies the world’s largest and most comprehensive range of seamless steel tube sizes and has an annual output of up to three million tonnes.
PSI AG develops and integrates complete solutions, on the basis of its own software, for the management of energy networks (electricity, gas, heat, oil, water), cross-company production management (steel, mechanical engineering, automotive, logistics) and infrastructure management for telecommunications, transport and safety. PSI was founded in 1969 and currently employs more than 1000 persons in the group.
