Consulting-products with noticeable results and excellent ROI-values

Uniwave’s consultants are professionals with extensive experience in both West and East European window manufacturing markets. Our know-how combined with the experience gathered over years in the supplier industry as well as the most successful window manufacturing companies represent the basis of our consulting. Our projects always adhere to the approved European standards as well as considering the special conditions of the individual markets. Our neutrality to the supply industry and the machine manufacturers reassures our customers that they are making decisions about investments and important strategic issues in an objective environment. Competence in methods, technological know-how and an extensive experience of businesses in the window manufacturing industry all guarantee the success of the projects.

Tools - Windows manufacturing software

Professional window manufacturing software is a solid IT platform for every window manufacturing company as it takes over the steering of all main office processes and information channels. A window manufacturing program constitutes the software base of a window manufacturing company. Above all, a professional window manufacturing software counts with user defined complexity regarding the design and the construction of window elements. The integrated customer and supplier database as well as comfortable search and filter functions allow for a fast order process in the main office, in subsidiaries and in the merchants’ offices. Professional window manufacturing programs support the use of materials provided by the market, i.e. all profile and hardware systems, fillings and accessories. Besides these main functions, modern window manufacturing software consists of numerous interfaces not only to usual ERP and PPC systems but also to foreign applications such as branch software for insulated glass manufacturing. Data can furthermore be provided electronically for financial accounting and statistical applications. Constantly tested and optimised in practice, our window manufacturing software provides a window manufacturing company with the opportunity to work efficiently and to consider all important factors in the production process simultaneously. The majority of bigger window manufacturing companies today require window manufacturing software capable of controlling automatic production systems online. The online control of machines such as double mitre saws, welding and corner cleaning lines, angle combinations, glazing bead saws, cutting and machining centre with all possible machining, hardware mounting centres, element buffers etc. increase the capacity of production and allow for a reduction of submission errors. A fundamental advantage of automatic machine control is clearly a dramatic reduction in production costs. Modern automation software for window manufacturing does not only provide the rhythm for the automatic production lines, but also optimizes the work on manual working stations with the help of appropriate software modules. In a modern window manufacturing company, production information arrives electronically and in real time at industry PCs sitting at manual working stations, usually equipped with bar code scanners. Hence, errors and the time needed for detecting half-finished products can be minimized.

Tools – CAM CIM

Machine control is just one aspect of a modern automation solution. The user needs access to specific, ready-for-work CAM-tools, which are relevant to his company, so that he can prepare and steer his production approach optimally. To keep a competitive advantage, a window manufacturing company must also develop the ability to satisfy customer needs quickly and to keep costs low. With a software package running on specific type of machines, all demands can be solved with a total solution, which besides production also supports other aspects: from construction to distribution and from order management through warehouse integration to transport activities.

Tools – PPC

All large window manufacturing companies today rely on a professional ERP-Platform (Enterprise Resource Planning). ERP sets down the basis for planning and steering all company processes. It supports a secure and consistent planning approach and optimises the value-added chain, from stock to delivery. An important ingredient of the whole ERP-system is Production Planning and Control (PPC). The implementation of a powerful PPC-system leads to beneficial planning procedures and navigation towards optimal production, assuring the best possible company success with regard to capacity and resources. The core is the optimization of resource use in the context of numerous aims like adherence to promised delivery dates, reduction of throughput and resource efficiency. Our PPC-systems are designed and implemented in such a way that long- and medium-term planning as well as short-term navigation can be performed with ‘planned’-, ‘preferred- and ‘current‘-values considered. Thereby production specific requirements of window manufacturing companies with high user satisfaction are satisfied.

Tools – Time management software

It is the purpose of time management software to detect, analyse and, if necessary, capture accrued times in production. Thereby, the main aim is to monitor and optimise production processes in real time. Time management software monitors actual production times and automatically compares them to predetermined production times. The system also records log in and out times of employees, which can be automatically transferred to payroll accounting programs. The multifaceted analysis possibilities of the time management system allow you to assess, in real time, cost points, employee working times and projects.

Uniwave consulting services

Uniwave’s consultancy technique is focused on precise analysis of all operational sectors of a window manufacturing company, from an external, objective perspective. In so doing, Uniwave offers its customers the opportunity to identify optimisation potential in their business operations and to implement the appropriate measures in a timely manner. With our services, which range from consultancy around planning right up to the very implementation, we cover all sectors of a window producer, from purchasing and production to depots and distribution. As a full service provider for process and IT solutions in window manufacturing, Uniwave supports you with the analysis and optimisation of your business processes as well as the introduction of business administration and trade software. Uniwave ties competence in processes, solutions and the trade to individual customer offers – from the strategic adjustment to the implementation and permanent improvement of the solution. As a pathfinder for the successful realization of your visions, we consult our customers in all areas of technology, organisation and information processing.