LPSYSTEM Software for the Reinforcement Industry

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LP-SYSTEMSoftware for the Reinforcement Industry
www.lennerts-partner.de
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Presentation of the LENNERTS PARTNER GmbH

• The headquarter of the LENNERTS PARTNER GmbH
  with 18 employees is situated at Coburg
  (Germany).
• LENNERTS PARTNER was founded in 1990 and
  resulted from a project for Siemens. At this time
  a software was developed to check the power of
  traction for produced cables.
• Soon this project should be completed and on the
  occasion of a student party contacts with the
  manager of a rebar shop were established. So we
  decided to develop and also to distribute a
  software solution for the reinforcement industry.

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Presentation of the LENNERTS PARTNER GmbH

• More than 250 installations in 23 countries The
  customers of the LENNERTS PARTNER GmbH are
  structured as follows
• Pure rebar shops which only use LP-SYSTEM.
• Steel traders which carry on a rebar shop and
  which are communicating with its steel trading
  software via interface.
• Precast companies which are producing for its own
  production but also sometimes supply steel to
  construction sites. In precast companies very
  often the advantages of the BVBS import are used.
  Here the reinforcing data can be imported from an
  own CAD software without having to create them
  again manually.

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Presentation of the Software Solution

• The software package is structured as follows

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Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM

• The commercial module of LP-SYSTEM manages main
  data like products, customers, shape code
  catalogue, price lists and so on.
• The shape code catalogue will be supplied with
  approx. 200 shape codes and can be expanded very
  easily on ones own.
• In the commercial module the projects with its
  schedules and barmarks (steel, mesh, accessories)
  are created and managed.
• With the basic module all functions are available
  which are necessary for a rebar shop to make
  production (tag printing) and to create delivery
  notes and invoices.
• The schedules can be summarized to a delivery
  unit and a cargo planning can be made.

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Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
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Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM

• LP-SYSTEM has also the function to create/manage
  structural elements.
• By means of interfaces also reinforcing data can
  be imported from external systems. These can come
  from a CAD program or can be read in via the
  BVBS-interface. But also the import of Bamtec
  data is possible.
• The basic module has two workstation licences
  which are embedded in a Microsoft-network. A
  Microsoft SQL data base is used which is open to
  other systems via ODBC-interface.

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Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM
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Commercial Module LP-SYSTEM

• Beside the basic module there are various
  additional modules. These are for example
• Import/export of schedules into other
  subsidiaries
• Purchase module
• Import of reinforcement data from a CAD via
  BVBS-interface.
• Import of Bamtec data
• Graphical printout of mesh optimization
• User profiles
• Fixing module
• Interface to an accounting package
• Delivery control
• Interface to financial bookkeeping system
• Credit limit control
• Multi-language version

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Technical Module LP-SYSTEM

• The technical module of LP-SYSTEM registers all
  machines and its technical parameters. To
  guarantee an exact allocation of the barmarks to
  the right machines, this is not enough for us. In
  addition production lines are created. Here
  machines which are allowed to work physically
  together are combined with each other according
  to logistic and production technical criteria.
• As it happens very often that one barmark can be
  produced on one or more machines respectively
  production lines, priorities are created in the
  system. The priorities clear up for each steel
  diameter which machine shall be used first. If
  this machine cannot produce the barmark, the
  machine with the next priority will be selected.

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Technical Module LP-SYSTEM

• Beside the automatic allocation of all barmarks
  to the machines the production planner uses the
  system in special in order to make delivery
  units. One or more contracts can be allocated to
  one delivery unit. Within such a delivery unit
  the optimization then will be made.
• On the one hand a bar cutting optimization is
  made for all bar cutting machines, on the other
  hand the barmarks of all coil machines are sorted
  for each machine so that there will be no sorting
  of the tags after printing.

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Technical Module LP-SYSTEM
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Technical Module LP-SYSTEM

• In the next step all machines can be downloaded.
  This can be made either via
• Online-downloading or
• Offline-downloading.
• For the online downloading the data on the
  machine are called up via barcode and then
  transferred from a PC to the machine via cable or
  wireless.
• The offline downloading is working without
  connection to the machine as the barcode
  (PDF-barcode) already includes all data which are
  required for downloading.

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Technical Module LP-SYSTEM

• In the final step it is possible to find out via
  data summary
• Who has produced which item at what time
• on which machine and
• how long did it take?
• On the other side it is possible to see on the
  screen whether a schedule has already been
  completely produced in order for example to
  inform customer accordingly by phone. By means of
  a statistics data for an output related payment
  also can be gathered.

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Customers in Germany and abroad
More than 250 installations in 23 countries

• AbuDhabi
• Australia
• Austria
• Bahrain
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Brazil
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Dubai
• Finland
• Germany

• Hungary
• Italy
• Ireland
• Luxembourg
• Norway
• Poland
• Romania
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• The Netherlands
• United Kingdom

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