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KmExtrusion is the essential tool for your production aluminium workshop

Created and edited by META 2i, with 30 years of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) experience, and crafted in collaboration with industry experts in aluminum extrusion, KmExtrusion is now the leading MES software on the aluminum extrusion market!

OUR HISTORY

META 2i and KmExtrusion

KmExtrusion is an adaptive and scalable MES solution specialized in the aluminum industry. It connects your entire company, from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) to machines.

KmExtrusion’s applications allow the development of specialized” profession” modules for each workshop. In addition, communication is easy, from the operator to the decision-maker. The result is an optimized and improved industrial information system for the entire production flow.

Thus, thanks to a collaboration between our teams and the field actors of the aluminium industry, we could realize modules adapted to each stage of the production. Today, META 2i continues to work with new customers in the world of aluminium as well as its historical customers to offer the most complete MES solution for the aluminium market.

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Features and issues

The tool allows for easier planning and better organization at all levels. Thus, KmExtrusion can manage your workshops at each stage of your production:

An exchange between ERP and KmExtrusion

Exchanges can be set up between the ERP and KmExtrusion. These exchanges can be done with:

They can be executed:

These exchanges are done in both directions:

  • The shapes
  • The indices  
  • The ranges (allowing the management of the tools)  
  • The order book with the Work Order
  • State of the tools
  • Productions realized at the end of the Extrusion process
  • Production passed to hardness input control

Tools management

KmExtrusion allows you to manage your tools, especially your dies, directly from the software. You will be able to configure the instructions of use for each item.

Alloys management

You can also configure your alloys from KmExtrusion. The module will record the list of all your alloys and the composition of each of them.

Press Configuration

A screen will allow you to configure your presses, considering all your parameters such as the direction of the extrusion, the different tolerances required, the positioning of the saws.

Instructions adapted to your process will be set up.

KmExtrusion will also configure the reference times. These indications will allow us to calculate the cost of production.

The scheduling

An application allows you to manage the operators’ planning with three displays:

The scheduling of the extrusion workshop is also managed from KmExtrusion. This module is presented as follows:

On standby FOs: in this tab, you will find the list of unplanned Work Order and synthesis by production order.

Planning:This tab allows you to visualize the different programs in a tree structure and proposes a synthesis by the program. In this synthesis, you will find the Optipresse instructions. 

What is Optipresse ?

Optipresse is a module in KmExtrusion that calculates and determines the most efficient extrusion instructions. This is possible thanks to a unique reference system and industrial intelligence.

This will allow a return on investment (ROI) by reducing costs and waste.

Material reception

The management of receptions from KmExtrusion allows you to have complete control of the reception, a history of the receptions, and complete monitoring of the materials.

The software will offer you the following screens:

Tool furnace management

KmExtrusion manages your different furnaces, including the tool furnace, to have a global view of the status of each furnace, the presence or absence of a tool, and its status.

Press Steering

An application for the control of the presses allows to display in the workshop:

Quality Control

The quality controls can also be done directly from KmExtrusion. You will be able to manage the quality control in a digitalized way according to your needs. This will allow better analysis and permanent traceability. Here are a few examples of quality controls:

Containerization / Sawing

An application allows to display in the workshop:

Shaping

When containers are declared with items to be recycled at containerization, they are available at shaping.

Two types of solutions are managed:

Revenue furnace

With the workshop screens, the operator can also control the tempering furnaces.

Information and alerts will be made available to him to control the passage of the containers to the furnace.

Lacquering

KmExtrusion allows automatic and intelligent planning by color shade. To do this, the software groups the FOs by similar shades to save cleaning time in the booths.

The digitization of the lacquering process allows to reduce the error rate and increase productivity. For this, KmExtrusion allows:

Powder management

A powder management screen allows you to manage from KmExtrusion:

Anodizing

The anodizing screen allows management of the products to be anodized with optimized planning of the anodization and monitoring the production in real-time.

Package management / Shipping

You will have all the information your operators will need to manage packages on the package management screen. The same goes for the shipping part. The indicators present will be adapted to your needs.

Production synthesis

KmExtrusion will allow you to obtain production synthesis adapted to your needs. Here are some examples of synthesis:

KmExtrusion supports their performance

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