Technical weaving mill GKD opts for business software abas ERP
July 17, 2007 (Press Release) --
Karlsruhe, July 17, 2007 - After having survived a market break, the family company GKD is now a worldwide market leader for technically demanding fabrics for architecture, filtration industry and process conveyor belting. The abas ERP software is used to organize the business processes. The business solution supports fast-moving business developments through its high level of adjustability and scalability.
This is the appearance of hidden champions: from the outside not many things suggest that a worldwide operating company is concealed behind the clinical facade of the company buildings. The company's products, used as anti-turbulence screens in wind tunnel applications or as antistatic filter belts in flake board and formed fabric manufacture, is also highly esteemed by architects around the world. The GKD - Gebr. Kufferath AG in Düren (Germany), founded in 1925, has systematically developed from being a vendor of standard woven wire cloth towards supplying mesh types woven of metals and plastics for technically demanding applications.
Mixture of serial and individual production
All three business areas of this industry and the approximately 530 employees are contributing in equal shares to the total revenue of 75 million Euro (2006). "If we have many orders we use production batch one. We cooperate with the worldwide Champions League in architecture - individual adjustments to object-specific situations and requirements of the architects are in demand, " Bergschneider describes the requirements. Recent examples are the New Jewish Synagogue in Munich, the Concert Hall in Dusseldorf or London Heathrow Airport. In addition, there is also mass production, meaning the machines are running without an operator, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, sometimes for months. "We are a very interesting mixture of large and small series, and individual production," summarizes IT employee Franz-Josef Malsbenden the requirements of production, planning and company management solution from abas ERP.
Over the past 16 years the ERP system was constantly modernized and thus continuously developed along with the company, says Malsbenden. "We have constantly been adjusting the ERP system from the very first minute we used it." At that time there were no special solutions for weaving mills on the market. Thus, GKD came up with the idea to buy a flexible, expandable ERP solution, which could be tailored to their requirements. "This was the decisive point for abas ERP," remembers Malsbenden.
More:
http://www.abas.de/en/aktuelles/07/gkd.htm
This is the appearance of hidden champions: from the outside not many things suggest that a worldwide operating company is concealed behind the clinical facade of the company buildings. The company's products, used as anti-turbulence screens in wind tunnel applications or as antistatic filter belts in flake board and formed fabric manufacture, is also highly esteemed by architects around the world. The GKD - Gebr. Kufferath AG in Düren (Germany), founded in 1925, has systematically developed from being a vendor of standard woven wire cloth towards supplying mesh types woven of metals and plastics for technically demanding applications.
Mixture of serial and individual production
All three business areas of this industry and the approximately 530 employees are contributing in equal shares to the total revenue of 75 million Euro (2006). "If we have many orders we use production batch one. We cooperate with the worldwide Champions League in architecture - individual adjustments to object-specific situations and requirements of the architects are in demand, " Bergschneider describes the requirements. Recent examples are the New Jewish Synagogue in Munich, the Concert Hall in Dusseldorf or London Heathrow Airport. In addition, there is also mass production, meaning the machines are running without an operator, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, sometimes for months. "We are a very interesting mixture of large and small series, and individual production," summarizes IT employee Franz-Josef Malsbenden the requirements of production, planning and company management solution from abas ERP.
Over the past 16 years the ERP system was constantly modernized and thus continuously developed along with the company, says Malsbenden. "We have constantly been adjusting the ERP system from the very first minute we used it." At that time there were no special solutions for weaving mills on the market. Thus, GKD came up with the idea to buy a flexible, expandable ERP solution, which could be tailored to their requirements. "This was the decisive point for abas ERP," remembers Malsbenden.
More:
http://www.abas.de/en/aktuelles/07/gkd.htm
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