Windows Giant-Grows with VinCAD
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Explosive growth at home and abroad required Danish window and door manufacturer, IdealCombi, to focus on gathering all their data in one simple IT system. Their choice was VinCAD, an IT solution from Dynaway that’s tailor-made to the industry. If you look at a map of Denmark it may seem like Hurup, in South Thy, is in the middle of nowhere. But its remote location has in no way hindered IdealCombi in realizing their ambitious growth plan – a plan that has made them one of Denmark’s largest manufacturers of windows and doors. Their export business is flourishing, too – especially on the English market where the building industry is not at all used to customized wood and aluminium windows. In a very short time, IdealCombi has built up a sales organization of twenty employees. And out of the total number of employees working at IdealCombi, there are an additional ten employees busily working in Hvidovre, near Copenhagen, just to keep up with the booming building industry.
FROM SPROUT TO FULL INTEGRATION
Ten years ago, when IT manager Preben Nygaard Jensen first arrived at IdealCombi, the company was operating with a host of different IT systems and as many more-or-less well-functioning interfaces. After a four-year battle of trying to get the systems integrated satisfactorily, Preben Nygaard Jensen decided that it
was time to find one system with one database where all the data from sales, purchasing, production and finance could melt together into one seamless system. “We searched for potential suppliers and quickly discovered that VinCAD from Dynaway was the right solution for us. There is no other Danish system that comes near to what VinCAD can do. Now we can analyze all our data across production, finance, sales and stock in just one system. Plus, VinCAD is a graphic product configurator which means that we can see exactly what it is we are about to produce. The solution gives us a tremendous overview and great flexibility in technical production because all the window components fit together when we draft. Even the smallest change is registered throughout the drawing and that increases the quality significantly” says Preben Nygaard Jensen.
AN IMPROVED BOTTOM LINE
VinCAD, a graphic configurator for the window and door manufacturing industry, enables IdealCombi to customize products with their customers down to the smallest detail. The result can be seen immediately in the form of an exact 2-dimensional drawing, thereby giving the customer a visual picture of their order. The order forms the basis for production, purchasing, inventory and delivery of data directly to the production equipment. And, if some specifications must be
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changed during the process, VinCAD adjusts each order and calculates the price and raw material needs automatically. In addition, VinCAD reduces the number of defective batches because the program has several built-in warnings that help the order recipient create an accurate and precise production order. “With Dynaway we’ve been able to implement a 100% electronic order and production system. And even though it required a lot of hard work during a period of intense growth, it’s been well worth the effort. Just the fact that we now have only one system instead of many means so much to our performance. Overall, VinCAD has enabled us to improve our bottom line with only marginal increases in staff. It’s worth everything to our company,” says Preben Nygaard Jensen.
the quality and accuracy of the production order improves significantly. We view VinCAD as a small revolution in the industry because the solution optimizes and improves the effectiveness of so many processes. And it’s an integrated part of a complete manufacturing and ERP solution – not just another standalone system that all the other systems must adapt to. There is no other product like it on the market.”
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He adds: “Now we can also perform analytical “cross sections” throughout our many and varied forms of data, and see details and patterns that we couldn’t see before. It’s easier to create new reports and statistics so VinCAD is not only a system for all of us technicians but it’s also a management system that is open to our other systems. In other words, we have a digital overview that supports our growth in a great way,” he says. Annette Ravn, Teamleader at Dynaway, adds: “We know that for a typical window manufacturer up to five percent of what’s produced must be reproduced or there are errors that must be corrected. Therefore, there are a lot of savings to gain with VinCAD because
FACTS ON IDEALCOMBI
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IdealCombi is one of the largest window and door manufacturers in Denmark. The company has a turnover of DKK 393 million and 480 employees.
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IdealCombi is owned and operated by Bent Søgaard and Henning Søgaard – brothers who founded the company in 1973. Since then they have specialized in the development, manufacture and sale of windows and doors in pinewood and the more technically advanced combination of pinewood and aluminium.
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The company established a new 8000-square-meter manufacturing facility in 2000, and in 2002 and 2004 the facility was further expanded to 56,000 square meters. In 2005, IdealCombi was the first company to introduce “Warm Edge” technology – a thermoplastic spacer bar that improves insulation and eliminates the risk of condensation.
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