Kiepe Electric GmbH, headquartered in Düsseldorf, employs around 700 people and is one of the leading suppliers of electrical traction technology for rail and road. The company develops and manufactures drive and network systems for urban and intercity railways, trolleybuses, and special vehicles.
Initial situation
Kiepe Electric GmbH needed a reliable and transparent recording of operational and machine data from production and assembly of electrical traction technology. The goal was a reliable database for order and machine status in real time.
Challenge
As a manufacturer of complex electrical drive systems with high variant diversity, the company needed reliable process data. Manual recording of data was prone to errors and provided no up-to-date data for production progress.
Solution
With Shopfloor Data Acquisition 4BDE and Machine Data Acquisition 4MDE from S4P, Kiepe Electric GmbH captures order, operational and machine data directly at the point of origin. The solutions are integrated as FELIOS|BDE and FELIOS|MDE into the existing ERP system PSIPenta and into the production planning FELIOS|APS.
Results and benefits
Production now provides a transparent and current database. Order and machine status are traceable at any time, data quality has improved, and manual recording effort has been significantly reduced.