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Synthetis doesn’t just deploy scheduling optimization and knowledge management projects! … We also help manufacturers to manage production, quality and performance in real time. Like Bridgestone EMEA Aircraft Tyres in […]
A new industrial paradigm? In an industrial world in daily search of productivity optimization, the digital transformation and digitization of processes have become crucial issues for our factories! To remain […]
For many years now, the Belgian SME Synthetis Metals has been persuading the world’s steel giants to entrust it with the task of modernising their production plants as they look […]
How has Rhenus Automotive managed to improve its scheduling in times of crisis?
The idea of a connected factory where data re-entry is eliminated is not a utopia, but a reality in full swing as part of the industry of the future. This […]
Optimizing a plant’s shared workforce is a strategic approach that offers multiple advantages. Not only does it enable agile adaptation to variations in demand, it also helps control operating costs. […]
Managing skills and maintaining versatility are essential for any organization seeking to remain competitive in an ever-changing economic environment. Indeed, the ability to assign staff according to their specific skills […]
In the dynamic context of Industry 5.0, workforce planning is becoming a central pillar for companies seeking to optimize their efficiency and responsiveness. The ability to anticipate skills requirements, align […]
Rhenus has been serving the automotive industry for over 20 years. Services extend to in-house logistics, assembly services, battery management for electric vehicles, quality management, direct purchasing, engineering and innovation. […]
Scheduling production staff is a difficult exercise for manufacturers. It involves striking a delicate balance between numerous operational constraints that are not always easy to combine! First of all, personnel […]
Logistics is a key element in the competitiveness of steel companies, which have to manage large, complex flows of semi-finished and finished products. Storage halls are strategic locations where products […]
Exposure to risk factors in a plant can have harmful consequences for the health and safety of workers. It is therefore important to measure this exposure in order to identify […]
Today, supervision and production management are two closely related fields in the context of industry and manufacturing. Here are a few points to consider regarding this trend towards closer links […]
Shared labor, or the use of temporary or external workers to meet production needs, is a common practice in the industrial sector. It enables us to cope with fluctuations in […]
Industry 5.0, the name given to the fifth industrial revolution, aims to integrate humans more fully into production processes, thanks to digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Unlike Industry 4.0, which […]
The annualization of working hours is a time management model that aims to offer flexibility by allowing employees to work a certain number of hours over the course of a […]
Personnel planning involves determining a company’s manpower requirements, assessing available skills and resources, and implementing measures to cover any gaps between needs and resources. All this while promoting a high […]
Marc Mauroy, CTO of Synthetis, joined the team in 2004. He is now in charge of pre-sales and consulting. Since 2016, Marc has been in charge of research and […]
PeopleForce, a staff planning management tool acclaimed by food manufacturers, now focuses on the management of training at the workplace The staff schedule, what is it about? Complex work schedules? […]
Any project to deploy IT solutions for industries, whatever its size and ambitions, requires strong business expertise, flexibility and controlled management of its progress. During the project, the accompaniment, step […]
As we already noted in our article on the Operator Cockpit, “The value of a well-thought-out operator cockpit,” structured information communicated to the right person at the right time is […]
When you want to deploy production management tools, it is useful from the beginning of the project to consider how the processed information will be communicated to operators and shared […]
Pro Magno Convention Center – São Paulo/SP – Brazil Considered Latin America’s largest technical and scientific event in the fields of metallurgy, materials, and mining, ABM WEEK reaches its sixth […]
Some time ago we inaugurated a series of video capsules presenting the collaborators of Synthetis.Let’s continue to discover those who are the driving force of Synthetis because to paraphrase Steve […]
Synthetis Metals (Belgium) has entered into a commercial partnership with TecWise Brazil for the distribution of FLUXX, a logistics optimization software for the steel industry. The investments made for many […]
For some time now, Synthetis, editor of the PeopleForce industrial personnel planning software, has been looking for an opportunity to meet Quebec industrialists! Indeed, Canadian industrial companies are very similar […]
Any project involving the implementation of IT solutions for industry, whatever its size and ambitions, requires strong business expertise, flexibility and controlled management of its progress. An IT project for […]
The success of a company is often evaluated by the quality of its products or services, its financial performance or its notoriety, but all this is only the result of […]
Production staff planning is a central topic within plants and an important level of performance, especially in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and fine chemicals industries. This planning is in fact very […]
Synthetis is an innovative optimization software company for the industries.But Synthetis is also a team of enthusiasts. – Enthusiasts of steel logistics. – Enthusiasts of flow optimization. – Enthusiasts of […]
The time management solutions have a personnel planning offer. None of them has an offer focused on the industrial sector. Managing personnel in the industry – who will be assigned […]
PeopleForce is a staff scheduling optimization software for the industry. Whatever your industrial sector of activity, PeopleForce allows you to simplify the elaboration of the placement of your teams.Some time […]
Why invest in a WMS ? Today, the world steel industry is under great pressure to reduce costs. After having worked hard on the production tools, the […]
Discover the main features of the Fluxx software (WMS – TMS) developed by Synthetis.
Read the testimonial of BAO Steel, Shanghai (China) and its fully automated slab yard with 6 cranes. Application developed in collaboration with Schneider Electric. First Fluxx application outside Europe and […]
Every time I meet a sales representative of a company specializing in the optimization of production staff schedules, they make me dream by telling me that I will be able […]
NECESSARY CHALLENGE OR REAL OPPORTUNITY ? Between HRM (Human Resources Management) and Production Management, the allocation of staff on the production lines is a poor relation of the MES (Manufacturing […]
The question is not trivial because it is clear that there are several types of work time management software and that they do not all do the same job! So […]
If your industrial activity requires the regular use of temporary workers, having an in-house interim agency can be a wise choice… Indeed, by his regular presence on the site, the […]
A control tower to supervise the logistics of a steelworks site, dream or reality? The transport of internal or external material on a steel site represents a significant number of […]
The 5 challenges of transport management on steel sites The transport of goods has always been an expensive part of the logistics supply chain. The steel industry is no exception […]
For more than 40 years, Agrana Fruit France has been the market leader in the manufacture of fruit preparations for fresh dairy products. Agrana has been named “Supplier of the […]
A case of real time optimization of batches. One of our customers, active in the food industry, asked us for a solution to optimize its batch production process in order […]
The MES or Manufacturing Execution System is not just another concept aimed at bringing together a few more or less standardised functionalities for industrial IT departments that are short of […]
All production departments must optimize industrial performance on a daily basis. The continuous improvement process of the processes, the organization or the maintenance is based on the virtuous cycle “measure, […]
A difficult balance between productivity and flexibility If there’s one topic that’s in vogue, it’s this one: skills management and versatility maintenance. Yet, although overused, this is a powerful potential […]
The missions of the Management Controller in an industrial environment generally consist of analysing production processes in order to optimise costs, drawing up control dashboards and ensuring the relevance of […]
Unfortunately, production is not a long quiet river. It is made of meanders, eddies and rapids! Once again, good management of the assignment of personnel to production positions makes it […]
Musculoskeletal Disorders can cost a company a lot of money, either directly or indirectly through a constantly rising insurance premium. However, one of the factors contributing to MSDs is the […]