Watch now: Increase productivity by digitalizing processes
UL Solutions’ on-demand webinar highlights how digitalizing design and manufacturing processes can help you improve productivity across your cable factory.
Speakers
Hamada Khalifa, sales executive, Software, Engineered Materials
Amanda Shehab, specialist industry consultant
UL Solutions’ on-demand webinar highlights how digitalizing cable design and manufacturing processes can help improve productivity across the entire cable factory.
The on-demand webinar covers the following topics:
- Part 1 – The black box of wire and cable manufacturing
- Part 2 – Increase productivity by up to 25% by digitalizing your cable design and manufacturing processes
- Part 3 – Q&A
- Part 1 – The black box of wire and cable manufacturing (presented by Amanda Shehab)
0:35 – Introducing the black box of a wire and cable factory
2:30 – Opening the black box
3:35 – Looking for ways to eliminate waste
6:45 – Material waste
14:27 – Equipment waste- Part 2 – Increase productivity by up to 25% by digitalizing your cable design and manufacturing processes (presented by Hamada Khalifa)
20:19 – The need to benchmark
21:45 – The complete manufacturing cycle
23:20 – Data creation with CableBuilder Enterprise
27:08 – Data flow between CableBuilder and CableMES
32:55 – Linking testing devices with CableMES
34:30 – CableMES in real-time action
36:27 – Bobbin/drum traceability
38:19 – Quality vs. performance vs. availability
39:10 – Reports available in CableMES
42:13 – Raw material management flow chart
44:06 – About Cimteq by UL Solutions- Part 3 – Q&A
45:49 – Question 1: How does CableMES stop a malfunctioning machine from affecting product quality (Part 1)?
48:43 – Question 2: What is CableMES?
49:25 – Question 3: What equipment is needed to measure overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) with CableMES?
50:38 – Question 4: Can CableMES be used with CableBuilder Go?
51:19 – Question 5: How does CableMES deal with a shortage of materials?
52:26 – Question 6: How does CableMES stop a malfunctioning machine from affecting product quality (Part 2)?
54:43 – Question 7: Can CableMES be used with old machines?
56:48 – Question 8: Can CableBuilder integrate multiple plants centrally?
57:14 – Question 9: Can reports be customized to user-specific requirements?
58:10 – Question 10: Can you recommend length counter and speed measurement devices that work with CableMES?
59:11 – Question 11: Can CableMES be integrated into enterprise resource planning (ERP)?
59:47 – Question 12: Does CableMES have a function to support finished product inventory for manufacturing supply operations?
1:00:37 – Question 13: Is CableMES cloud-based, or is a physical server required?
1:02:07 – Question 14: Do CableBuilder and CableMES have a costing feature?
About the presenters
Hamada Khalifa, sales executive, Software, Engineered Materials, and our guest presenter, Amanda Shehab, a specialist industry consultant, present our webinar.
Khalifa helped Nexans plants worldwide complete their CableBuilder Enterprise implementation projects. He applies this experience to promote the product, showcase what it can help customers achieve and help customers throughout their implementation journeys.
Khalifa and Shehab have more than 50 years of combined experience in the wire and cable industry at organizations including Cimteq by UL Solutions, Nexans, Elsewedy, Bahra Cables and BICC Cables, as well as the International Wire and Machinery Association (IWMA), where Shehab served as chairman and vice chairman for more than six years.
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