valsir

Valsir was established in 1987 by the Fondital Group (the parent company has been making aluminium radiators for 30 years) and makes a full range of products for heating and plumbing installations.

The Valsir plants in Vestone, Casto and Vobarno make advanced water supply and drainage systems, which have found applications throughout the industry. Products include a full range of polypropylene pipes and fittings with compression coupling and high-density polyethylene pipes and fittings for welding; a highly evolved range of built-in and exposed flush cisterns; the modern Silere system, a range of pipes and fittings made of sound-absorbent material; and  the Pexal multi-layer pipe system, the feather in the company’s cap, which, with its fittings, forms one of the largest ranges in the world.

In 2007 VALSIR decided to replace its information system with SAP/R3™ to achieve more efficient and effective process management. The corporate reorganisation process highlighted two complementary requirements: one was the need to supply SAP™ automatically with precise and detailed data on the state of progress to allow accurate product costing; the other was the need to acquire process and product data straight from the machines (presses and wire drawing machines) to create cockpits and indicators that can measure OEE, efficiency, performance, and raw material and energy consumptions.

Like RAFFMETAL and FONDITAL - the other companies in  the group - before it VALSIR opted for the STAIN+ suite integrated with SAP™. This offered the following organisational, technological and economic advantages:

• Close integration with the SAP/R3 ERP system, thereby eliminating the transmission of written production orders to the various departments and the manual entry of states of progress in  SAP™, both activities with no value added and often the source of errors and omissions leading to data misalignment and unreliability.

• Real-time monitoring of the presses and wire drawing machines (in terms of status, items machined, production times and downtimes, and root causes of machine stoppages).

• Automatic acquisition of electricity consumption for each installed machine.

• Automatic acquisition from drawing machine meters of raw material consumptions, drawing rates and metric weight trend, all fundamental parameter for continuous and constant process optimisation.

• Computerization of autotest activities in the field using plans associated with the article and inspections shared by the various functions (production and quality) allowing constant process control and fewer rejects.

• Die sheet management and provision for associating a specific article and production order with each cavity.

• Real-time processing of powerful cockpits for verifying performance, efficiency, productivity, OEE, consumption, root causes of rejects, and press and wire drawing machine stoppages.

• Elimination of paper and communication of univocal and accurate information to all company department.

• Automatic bar code identification of all finished and unfinished products for full visibility of stocks by containment unit (bins, pallets, etc.) at each stage.

• Computerisation of die and mould management, intended as the visibility of each tool, in terms of status, location, lifetime in items and mould composition, tracking the components mounted (dies, die-holders, matrices and inserts) and maintenance activities on each die.

• Extreme ease of use and considerable time saving.

• Rapid and targeted processing of reports for all company requirements and departments.

• Exportability to Excel of all data.