MASCHINENBAU ORTMANNS GmbH

PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROLhas a very
good balance between functionality
and complexity. And the
price-performance ratio is convincing.

Frank Ortmanns
MASCHINENBAU ORTMANNS GmbH

Since 2007, Frank Ortmanns has been managing the company that his father founded in 1989 - in the second generation. Having started out as a pure mechanical engineering company, the company has increasingly focused on manufacturing in recent years. As a classic contract manufacturer, the company produces small batches and prototypes – primarily for customers in the automotive and food industries as well as in hydraulics.

Frank Ortmanns reached his limits with the previous planning solution. It was a pure planning board without any intelligence. Limited resources could not be considered. With the introduction of Connected Manufacturing at the Hoffmann Group and the associated increase in productivity, the company needed a new digital tool. One in which the resource "human" could also be planned reasonably.

The choice fell on the planning software PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL. The comparison with other solutions showed Frank Ortmanns: There is only "Pro or No". This is a challenge for companies of his size, because large systems are complex in functionality and costly in implementation.

The goal of digitization was higher transparency, reliable delivery dates and shorter buffer times for higher capacity utilization. Therefore, the buffer times between the individual work steps should be freely definable. This ensures optimal capacity utilization and subsequent work steps are not affected.