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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2017
Industrynews
SOUTHWIRE, one of North America’s
largest wire and cable producers, is
integrating CableBuilder, the cable
manufacturing software system by
Cimteq, to all its plants in North
America, transforming the efficiency,
cohesiveness and productivity of its
business.
The new fully integrated system will
drive Southwire to realise its goal of a
fully streamlined system linking all
plants together through common data
and specifications.
Following on from the successful
implementation of CableBuilder to over
a quarter of its plants, Southwire has
scheduled CableBuilder to be rolled
out to its remaining plants by the end
of 2018.
With Southwire’s key strategic goals to
build organisational capability, drive
operational excellence and accelerate
growth, the company requires internal
systems in place that will allow it to
perform at its maximum potential.
Dwayne Johnson, director,
specifications and standards,
Southwire, said “CableBuilder software
is a strategic investment for us at
Southwire. Its use as a product data
management system is essential for
our ERP’s operation. CableBuilder
software also offers us the flexibility to
continuously improve our designs and
our business processes.”
With over 20 plants across North
America, consistency is imperative in
order for the company’s SAP system to
function effectively. CableBuilder is
intuitive and flexible and can be
adapted to any ERP system.
CableBuilder integrates into SAP,
delivering concise information,
enabling the system to match
production to exact order
requirements, reducing scrap and
rework.
Furthermore, CableBuilder has allowed
Southwire to take the automation
process one step further by transforming
activities that would traditionally be
managed by a design engineer into
automated processes within the system,
for example, selection of materials and
specification validation.
CableBuilder’s unique function enables
Southwire to utilise the principle of
designing a product once and then
rolling it out to multiple plants to the
exact same specification of that original
design. CableBuilder allows Southwire to
optimise production and reduce costs,
especially with regards to transportation.
Any updates to a product are
automatically implemented across all
plants.
Southwire Company LLC – USA
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Cimteq Ltd – UK
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CableBuilder gives Southwire the edge