ERP software solution for the plastics industry

Using our product configurator add-on, you can integrate a rules-based product configuration in unitop. You can select polymers, additives or colorants to fulfil the customer’s requirements. Quantity calculations, proportions by weight and particle size distributions are taken into account based on the rules you have specified yourself. Thanks to dynamic field testing, the system also recognises inputs that do not correspond to the defined rules and will issue an immediate alert.

You can manage formulations, material variants and colour codes safely and efficiently. Creating and controlling different blends of plastics and colour variants when producing injection-moulded components is easy. That way, you can keep the composition of the compounds you have created and the specific colour codes under control. New variants, including item lists and test characteristics, can be created in just a few clicks.

You can plan and control your production orders centrally – whether they involve injection-moulding or extrusion. Flexible work plans help injection-moulding companies adapt to different moulds and cycles. During extrusion processes, detailed item lists ensure that materials and machinery are utilised efficiently.

From the raw material to the finished product, with unitop, your batches are clearly in view at all times. As a result, you can guarantee full traceability at all times and can respond rapidly and in a targeted way in the event of material recalls, claims, disputes or complaints.

Goods inward, in-process checks and final checks can be fully integrated into the system. During injection-moulding, for example, you can capture digital measurements such as shrinkage or the dimensions of moulded parts. During extrusion, parameters such as the melt flow index and the material density can be precisely documented and assigned to the production order.

In unitop, documenting the use and maintenance of your production tools can be performed centrally. Injection-moulding companies can view the service life and maintenance status of their tools at any time. Extrusion companies can digitally monitor how their nozzles and cutting tools are being used and maintained.

Schedule raw materials – such as granulates and additives – in advance and precisely when needed. In unitop, you can create and adjust material proposals at any time. Some of the things that the system allows you to do is schedule special fillers or colourants for a new batch quantity in good time and coordinate procurement so that the compounds required are available when you need them.

unitop provides flexibility and can be expanded using the available interfaces and add-ons – for activities such as precision planning, time recording or export processing. Using the unitop HUB, you can also connect your weighing scales, label printers, scanners and sector-specific systems such as MES, production data acquisition/MDC or IIoT solutions securely.

With our integrated unitop add-on AI basics, you can automatically identify, categorise and handle events such as complaints, claims or disputes, non-conformances or reports of damage. By smartly analysing items such as images or PDF files as e-mail attachments, incidents and events are captured in a structured way and recommended actions are presented.