The digital platform for your foundrySoftware solutions
Orchestrating the foundry.
CASCULATE brings production orders, capacity and resources together, proposes a feasible plan and shows right away what moves when something changes.
Typical challenges
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Fettling is full on Thursday. Everyone finds out on Thursday.
Two weeks ahead. The busiest resource of every workday and how full it is — in one view.
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Furnace 2 is down on Wednesday. Which orders were on it?
Every affected order, at a glance. Block the furnace for the day and CASCULATE lists the orders planned on it — and where each one moves to.
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“When will it ship?” Three people, three answers.
One date per order. The estimated delivery date comes from the scheduled route — and sits next to the requested one.
How it works
One plan.
Every department.
01Plan
A plan your shop floor can run
CASCULATE proposes machines and dates for every open operation, based on your routes, shifts and capacity, and shows the load before anything is applied.
02React
A machine goes down. The plan adapts.
Block a furnace for maintenance. The affected orders move to the next feasible day, and you see every new date before you confirm.
03See ahead
Know where it gets tight
For every workday in the next two weeks: the busiest resource across core shop, molding, melting, fettling and heat treatment.
What you gain
Concrete benefits for your production.
- Less manual planning effortPlanning proposals based on your rules and real capacity, instead of lists and phone calls.
- Better use of existing capacityDaily and weekly load for every machine, line, furnace and station, and the bottlenecks of the next two weeks.
- Faster response to disruptionsWhen a machine or furnace goes down, the affected orders move to the next free day. You see the new dates before you confirm.
- Higher adherence to delivery datesEvery order shows its estimated delivery date and, if it is at risk, the operation holding it up.
- More transparency on production progressShop floor reporting and the status of every order along its route.
- A better basis for decisionsOne plan from the ERP order to the shift plan, checked against your production rules.
Foundry processes
One plan across your foundry.
From the first to the last operation: a transparent, coordinated production flow. Every order follows the right path through your production and can be planned at every step.
- Core shopTransparent planning of cores and capacity for a reliable supply to molding.
- MoldingPlanning reliability for machine and hand molding through coordinated orders, patterns and capacity.
- MeltingTransparent coordination of melt demand, furnace capacity and production planning.
- FettlingTransparency on load and work in progress for a predictable material flow and fewer bottlenecks.
Your ERPOrders and master data
CASCULATEOrders · capacity · resources- Heat treatmentForward planning of furnace capacity for well-matched batches and lead times.
- MachiningDownstream steps in the same plan, connected during implementation.
- QualityInspection results on the same order, connected during implementation.
- ShippingDelivery dates visible to everyone, connected during implementation.
The tour
Real software, sample data. Silent, with captions.
The tour video is being updated. Until then, we are happy to show you CASCULATE live.
Book a meetingNext to your ERP
Your ERP stays. CASCULATE adds to it.
Your ERP manages orders, customers and invoices. CASCULATE adds the operational planning layer between your ERP and production, without replacing existing systems.
Your ERP
Runs the business
- Orders and customers
- Master data
- Purchasing and invoicing
Orders
Today, in many foundries
The plan is scattered
- Copied by hand from the ERP
- Every department keeps its own list
- Changes reach the shop floor late
With CASCULATE
Plans and controls production
- Planning based on routes, rules and capacity
- Shop floor reporting and order status
- Replanning with preview
One plan, from the ERP order to the shift plan
Shift plans
Shop floor
Runs the shift
- Department views
- Shift plans to print
- Start without an integration.Orders can be entered directly in CASCULATE. The route is created from your master data.
- Connect when you are ready.We build the connection to your ERP during implementation and, where needed, to crane scales, spectrometers and machines.
- Secure operation.We run CASCULATE securely in the CASCULATE cloud. Other operating options are agreed with you.
Let's look at your foundry.
Tell us how you plan today and where your biggest challenges are. We will show you CASCULATE live and the concrete benefit you can achieve with it.