Industries
Moulding and extrusion are capacity businesses. The tool is on the press or it is not, the material batch is right or the whole run is scrap, and the cost per part moves with cycle time and with what the resin cost this month. The planning problem is not complicated in theory, it is just impossible to hold in a spreadsheet once you run more than a handful of tools across more than a handful of machines. Alibera keeps the tool, the material and the machine in the same schedule, and reads the machine data instead of asking an operator to report it.
01In this category
Every process below runs on the same core system. The differences show up in configuration, in which modules you switch on, and in what gets integrated.
02What it has to do
The capabilities below are the ones that come up first in discovery calls with companies in this category.
01
Alibera reads data from CNC machines, Omron PLCs, Universal Robots and other IoT devices, and can send control commands back. That turns machine time into something the schedule and the costing can actually use, instead of a number somebody types in at the end of the shift.
02
Multi level bills of material with make to order and make to stock planning, so a confirmed order drives the material requirement and the work orders rather than a separate spreadsheet that somebody has to remember to update.
03
Stock, orders, receiving and shipping in one place, with barcode and parcel tracking. Warehouse and logistics systems can be synced one way or both ways depending on what the business actually needs.
03Where to go next
Three pages cover most of what gets asked after this one.
A discovery call is a conversation about your process, not a scripted product walkthrough. If Alibera is a poor fit for what you make, we will say so on that call.