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Rubber and Plastics
Meet today’s customer demands for efficiency and quality with elasticity for future innovation.
Connected Systems Built for Rubber and Plastics
While plastic production continues to increase, manufacturers face price-sensitive customers, more competition, and ever-shrinking timelines for new products. Manufacturers must build flexibility in their systems for innovation, while efficiency remains a top priority amid uncertain landscapes where:
- Rapid development in polymer science introduces changes in production methods and investment in new equipment
- Environmental concerns could lead to new regulations and a shift toward a circular plastics economy
- Price fluctuations of petroleum-based feedstocks and other raw materials place continued stress on profitability
Epicor Kinetic ranked a top ERP solution for manufacturers by G2
$88B
Revenue Managed Globally
37
Countries in Which Customers Do Business
>36,000
Users Worldwide
Ready for the Unexpected, Today and Tomorrow
Integrated Solutions with Room to Grow
Through integrated ERP technology, your business streamlines key processes and gains the flexibility to implement new ones. With more up-to-the-minute data at your fingertips, improve customer loyalty and win profitable new business.
- Get marketing, sales, production, planning, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and finance — all in one integrated solution
- A modular design allows you to update your business capabilities on your timeline
Laser Focus on Quality
Statistical process control (SPC) and statistical quality control (SQC) with Epicor Advanced MES use real-time, automated data to respond to production conditions and implement continuous improvement.
- Collect any kind of data from your equipment
- Make statistical analysis available to non-statisticians through visual interfaces
- Automate parts rejection
- Provide accurate delivery dates to every customer
Reduce Cost and Waste
Effective forecasting and scheduling result in stronger buying power. Epicor software for Rubber and Plastics includes easy-to-use scheduling, inventory control with material requirements planning (MRP), and purchase suggestions for time-phased material control.
- Schedule complex scenarios involving family molding or making multiple parts at the same time from a single mold
- Manage multi-resource constraints and capability-based scheduling
- Collaborate closely across the supply chain and automate procurement processes
- Perform detailed post-production cost analysis by production run
Challenges Solved for Rubber & Plastics Manufacturers
Epicor project management software enables intricate, multilevel phases, strict project costing, and billing. Once in production, Epicor manages complex scheduling scenarios so you get the most out of your valuable investments.
- Perform detailed estimation, planning, scheduling, costing, and supply chain logistics
- Manage the design, prototype, and manufacture of new mold and other projects
- With Advanced MES, build optimal schedules for making several or many parts at the same time using a single mold on a machine
Advanced MES enables complex capabilities for plastic and rubber products operations—such as active cavity tracking and family molding—to help optimize efficiency and get higher return on investments in automation.
- Build schedules that take into account all of the necessary mold and tooling changeovers
- Monitor equipment, assets, environmental factors, inventory locations, and their corresponding IoT data
- Detect patterns, raise alerts, and trigger business process changes — like raising a maintenance suggestion when equipment degradation is detected
Within a single engineered product, Epicor helps you consistently manage bills of material (BOM) and bills of operation (BOO) as well as multiple levels of assemblies.
This allows engineers to visually configure all components—both manufactured and purchased, and for accurate scheduling and costing of multilevel assemblies.
- Rules-based product configurations for Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ)
- Integration with major CAD systems
Epicor infrastructure, including its quality suite, offers a comprehensive approach to automating a wide range of compliance requirements for rubber and plastics manufacturers.
Kinetic’s global, multisite capabilities help you find new revenue opportunities and compete with the world’s most efficient supply chains.
Streamline intracompany and intercompany processes and accurately communicate information across the company as well as with business partners
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