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FABRICATION
Nesting
Enables Italian Fabricator to Keep Current
Myriad custom orders required production- management software upgrade.
Machine-usage tracking is one of the benefits derived from advanced production management software.
Tecno Meccanica Srl (firm of Tec- nolamiere Group), a metalwork- ing company located in Italy’s Tuscany region, the Pistoia province to be precise, serves global customers in a range of sectors, including appliances, food packaging, signage and lighting, and railway and naval coatings.
As a contractor known for its custom work, Tecnolamiere fulfills the entire project development process, from conception to finished part. Its process- es include laser cutting, bending, weld- ing, trimming and polishing. To keep pace with innovation and market needs
requires the expertise of its 100 employ- ee and the fabricating capabilities of advanced equipment that includes two fiber lasers from Trumpf and Amada, and one Amada punch press/laser combination.
Key to the company’s success is the use of SigmaNest production-manage- ment software from Cincinnati, OH- based SigmaTek Systems.
Before...
Before installing the software in the spring of 2019, Tecno Meccanica employed rigid production program-
ming software that was unable to meet the company’s evolving production needs. Myriad orders required cus- tomizations and plug-ins that the old program could not provide. The fabri- cator needed a software solution that would allow it to mix different work orders, while avoiding problems in the unloading phase.
The absence of such a production- management program made the administration of all the phases of the processing cycle even more diffi- cult. Processes were long and repeti- tive, given the need to upload the
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