Fameccanica
Fameccanica is a world leader in the design and manufacture of industrial production lines for disposable hygiene products (feminine hygiene products, nappies and adult incontinence products, hospital bed pads, incontinence products, etc.), with a related business in industrial spare parts and the supply of kits.
On request, we also design and manufacture specialised machinery for both the disposable sector and non-core sectors such as light logistics, laundry and cleaning product packaging, tissue converting and labelling.
Needs
The Fameccanica group is made up of four companies with production sites in Italy, China, Brazil and North America.
Very attentive to the continuous search for new solutions, to the organization of work and management processes, Fameccanica is a company in constant expansion that has found in Exprivia the ideal partner for its innovation projects aimed at digital transformation aiming at the goal of Industry 4.0.
In 2011, Fameccanica’s management decided to equip production with a new information system based on SAP ECC 6.0 software to be used both for the Italian parent company Fameccanica Data SpA and for the three foreign subsidiaries: Fameccanica North America in Cincinnati (FNA), Fameccanica Machinery in Shanghai (FMS) and Fameccanica do Brasil in São Paulo (FDB).
Exprivia Solution
The system requirements defined with Exprivia on logics inspired by Industry 4.0, aimed to manage the locations of foreign plants through a centralized operating system, and then carry out subsequent roll-out projects on the other companies of the Group. It is also very important to ensure integration between processes by optimizing the flow of communication, increase efficiency by reducing low value-added activities, support the introduction of homogeneous operating procedures, safeguarding the peculiarities of the business, and prepare a single application and infrastructure platform that is solid, flexible and open to possible future extensions.
Results
The introduction of the SAP/ERP platform by Exprivia has led to improvements in both process and digital functionality.
Improvement of business
processes and activitiesThese improvements can be quantified as greater productivity and efficiency in key processes, greater possibility of cost control and analysis, greater ease in consolidating data at group level and introduction of homogeneous operating procedures between the different companies, respecting the peculiarities of each individual production and commercial area.
Increasing digitalization
The advantage in the strictly technical area is configured in the extension to foreign companies of a single application/infrastructure platform that is flexible and susceptible to evolution, in the drastic reduction in the number of external applications and interfaces, in the management of the localization of foreign plants starting from a single reference kernel. Also noteworthy is the decisive organizational orientation towards digital evolution and the growth within Fameccanica of process know-how with the related parameterization and installation logics.
