FRAISA Annual Report 19/20

FRAISA goes digital Well equipped for the digital future The digital change is in full swing and fundamentally affects our way to communicate and inform ourselves. «FRAISA goes digital» focuses on IT technologies, changing the company, its customers and thus the entire business model sustainably. Digital networking, automation, data consistency: it is FRAISA’s aim to support the employees by means of digitalization mea- sures in a cross-process in making decisions, eradicating error sources and increasing productivity. This applies to all process- es and business areas from development via production to marketing and sales and forms the basis for the intended real- ization of the «digital plant». In future, digital instruments and data should be available to customers, which are required to operate their «digital plant» using FRAISA tools. Focus on visionary digitalization topics At FRAISA, the change from a purely product-related manu- facturer to the technology-oriented solution provider is carried out already for a while now. In Bellach, it had been recognized early that the sole manufacturing of tools is not a future-ori- ented business model. This paved the way for state-of-the-art digital services, such as the cutting data software ToolExpert, by starting development work in good time. Since 2012, in-house processes are controlled with an SAP in- formation system – a comprehensive ERP system superseding many individual systems. The development of a modern prod- uct information management system (PIM) is the next step to- wards digitalization. Upon completion of the project, the PIM will manage all article master data centrally. Furthermore, the PIM has already served as a source for the first mostly digitally realized FRAISA catalog in 14 variants. At FRAISA, newly created business units are responsible for the strategic ongoing development of digital topics across different sites. SAG-IT (strategic team for digitalization topics throughout the group) coordinates complex digitalization cam- paigns. With these diverse measures, the group of companies is on the right track into the digital future – simply «FRAISA goes digital». Annual Report 2019/2020  I PROJECTS [ 25 ]

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