Silo management in the production of building materials

To allow for a better organisation of the increasing processes around provision and distribution of the site silos, the company was in need of a modern central production and despatch system.

In a first step, the in-house workflows regarding the handling of shipments were subject to thorough examination. OAS took this as the basis to develop an especially tailored version of its own process control software (MES) pronto to become the central element of future production control. The objective was to cut back the entire process and to reproduce those former workflows which had paid off, in a new despatch system.

The yard management and the booking of RFID chipped site silos take place by means of the stationary despatch terminals developed by OAS and on supplementary mobile clients. In this way, the corresponding data for each field of application are represented on the corresponding end device and all fields of activities associated with despatch are supported in an optimum manner. The central despatch control system using a database and the RFID tracking of the silos moreover guarantee that goods which have passed their use-by date or have been wrongly picked, are locked and not shipped to the customer.