

Developed by META 2i and with 30 years of experience in MES, KmExtrusion is the essential tool for your production aluminium workshop
Created and designed with and by industrialists specialized in aluminum extrusion, KmExtrusion is today the leading MES software on the aluminum extrusion market!

META 2i has 30 years of experience researching and developing supervision systems and applications.
Firstly, dedicated to optimizing industrial production workshops, the expertise continues today in the consulting and publishing its production monitoring and MES software solutions.
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.
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:
KmExtrusion is an adaptive and scalable MES solution specialized in the aluminum industry. It connects your entire company, from ERP to machines.
KmExtrusion is an adaptive and scalable MES solution specialized in the aluminum industry. It connects your entire company, from ERP to machines.
The tool allows for easier planning and better organization at all levels. Thus, KmExtrusion is able to 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:
- A link between the ERP database and KmExtrusion (linked server)
- An exchange of flat or CSV files that will be injected in KmExtrusion
- Webservices
They can be executed:
- Periodically via a scheduled task, a service, or a task in the KmExtrusion database
- Manually via the KmExtrusion “Gateway” application
These exchanges are done in both directions:
- From the ERP to KmExtrusion, which will provide :
- The shapes
- The indices
- The ranges (allowing the management of the tools)
- The order book with the OFs
- From KmExtrusion to ERP which will provide :
- 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:
- By workshop
- By team
- By machine
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 FOs and synthesis by production order.
Shaping
When containers are declared with items to be recycled at containerization, they are available at shaping.
Two types of solutions are managed:
- Sorting at the presses: control on the visual aspect of the bars
- Rectification or Straightening: Correction of problems encountered (for example : geometry, traction) Depending on the choice made by the operator, the containers are available on the Sorting or Rectif screen.
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.
- In the same way, a traceability will be set up with :
A history of the load of the furnaces (Start / end / list of containers) - Traceability of the containers (When? Which furnace? How many passages to the furnace?)
Our References
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