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Shop floor    
  Machine monitoring   Changeover monitoring   Labelling   Quality Control   Document management   Material traceability  
Factory    
  Finite capacity planning   Works order processing   Manufacturing information   Stock control   Maintenance management   Tool management  
Business    
  Sales order processing   Purchase order processing   Sub-contract order processing   Estimating and costing   Accounting   Electronic data interchange  
 

FIS reads manufacturing information and works orders from an external ERP system at regular intervals.

FIS reads all your released works orders and ensures that FIS has an up-to-date copy of each one.

Works orders which have been deleted from your ERP system are deleted from FIS automatically, provided that they have not been started in FIS.

You can choose how often to import works orders.  Some customers do this every hour, others once every shift.

This method of importing works orders allows various different methods of data transfer from your ERP system to FIS.

  • A file exported from the ERP system.  This might be a .csv file, or a .xml file.
  • A query from FIS into the ERP system database.

If you are going to use the FIS Finite capacity planning module, you must use this method of importing, because FIS needs to know about the works orders before they are started, so that it can plan them.

The alternative is to use Live import works orders.

Features

Family tools

A family tool is a tool which produces two or more different parts in one cycle of the machine.

An example is an injection moulding tool which produces a left hand and right hand automotive component in the same shot.

Another example is a press tool which produces a rotor and a stator for an electric motor in the same blow.

Another example is a slitter which slits a reel of web into strands of different widths.

The Rhombus Factory Information System has full support for family tools.

  • You can specify any number of family members.
  • A family can contain the same part more than once.
  • You can control the position of each part in a family.  This allows you to track the position across the web of slitting operations.
  • It supports tools which cleat parts in the tool so that it takes many blows to make one part.  An example of this is a press tool making rotors and stators which cleats the rotor laminations into a stack in the tool.  In this case the rotors are counted in stacks, but the stators as individual laminations.