Metal Finishing Software for Production Control

Tricorn: DNAsp – special process manufacturing software

Metal finishing software – Tricorn: DNAsp

All Your Finishing Needs in One System

Surface engineering and special process companies are under pressure to continually reduce costs, provide responsive service levels and achieve highest levels of quality compliance for multiple specifications.

With customers providing limited order book visibility, yet expecting delivery within days; you need a system that can deal with all the niche requirements of special processes to provide flexibility to the volatile and demanding environment.

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Metal finishing software – Tricorn: DNAsp

Tricorn: DNA^sp is a highly configurable solution, designed by a team that have owned and managed several special process companies. We understand the paperwork, capacity planning and customer visibility challenges facing metal finishing businesses

Streamlining Special Processes

Tricorn: DNA^sp standardises best practice workflow, paperwork, resource planning and performance measures to improve competitiveness of special process companies.

Powder Coating

Plating

Heat Treatments

NDT

“The system has provided greater visibility of our processes, and it’s easy to share information around the business, so we can make decisions more effectively, and efficiently. As a result, booking in is now 50% faster, jobs to production is 30% quicker, and we’ve seen a rise in customer satisfaction.”

Colour Anodising

SUCCESS STORIES

Designed for Treatments

Job splitting & grouping
Customer service level planning
Job costing & analysis
Streamlined NADCAP compliance
Infinite capacity planning

By Treatments Experts

With decades of experience running special process companies, we understand the challenges you face on a daily basis. This experience has enabled Tricorn: DNA^sp to be perfectly suited to metal finishing companies.

“The system has transformed our business. Without the constant support, and professionalism of the Valuechain team, this would have never been achieved”

Morgan Ward

Tricorn: DNA^sp FEATURES

A System That Grows As You Do

As an ambitious company looking to grow, you want to know that the system you buy won’t need replacing in 3 years. With our innovative modular system, you can upgrade your system at any point, depending on what you want to achieve.

Streamline Compliance

Capacity Planning

Business Intelligence

Customer Portal

Aerospace Excellence

ENHANCE YOUR SYSTEM

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Features Every Metal Finisher Needs

All of our Production Control solutions include everything you need to streamline internal processes from Quotation through to Invoicing. Tricorn: DNA^sp includes all these features and more, as it offers unique functionality to overcome industry challenges. Click on a feature below to learn more

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Job Costing & Analysis

Job Grouping

Job Splitting

Capacity Planning

Shop Floor Data Collection

Industry Specific Fields

Live WIP tracking

ISO9001, AS9100 & IATF16949 traceability

Quality Control

Full Stock Inventory System

Advanced business reporting

Control Centre

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Need More From Your System?

Tricorn: DNA^sp can be configured to your individual business needs, providing you with a scalable platform that can evolve as your business opportunities and challenges change.

Aerospace Excellence

Customer Portal

Streamline Compliance

Business Intelligence

ENHANCE YOUR SYSTEM

Modular Production Software

Our modular Tricorn: DNA^sp system ensures you have the flexibility to adopt a system you need, and scale up as your business grows. All our systems embed the core functionality needed to effectively manage your business, but we also offer the opportunity to take your business to the next level, with our business improvement modules.

This modular approach helps you create a system ideal for your business, without incurring the costs or risks of a fully bespoke system.

Modular Production Software

MRP Production Control Solutions

Tricorn: DNA^sp Core Building Blocks

Tricorn: DNA^sp’s core modules cover from quotation through to invoicing, without the need to supplement your system with additional spreadsheets.

Sales Engineering

Planning

Purchasing Control

Quality

Finance

Sales Order Processing

Production

Shop Floor Data Collection

Human Resources

Reporting

Select a Building Block on the left to see how it underpins the success of your business

Sales Engineering

Features

RFQ Processing
Estimating
Quotation Generation
Win/Loss Analysis

What it means to your business

Streamline paperwork, to quickly turn prospects into sales
Improve customer confidence with up-to-date and accurate RFQs

Planning

Features

Capacity management
Scheduling
Customer service level planning
Labour, material & tooling planning

What it means to your business

Analyse current capacity availability, using SFDC and jobs-in-production data, to view resources committed and available
Provide customers with realistic promise dates that are informed by current capacity availability

Purchasing Control

Features

Purchase requisition list
Create & manage purchase orders
Inventory Management
Goods-in stores
Paint & Chemicals

What it means to your business

Easily produce purchase orders, GIN labels and delivery notes to track what’s coming in and going out

Quality

Features

Calibration tracking
Approved supplier register
Automated SC21 metrics
Non-conformance management
Route cause analysis
Inspection
Certificate of conformity generation

What it means to your business

Control all your internal, customer and supplier rejects within one solution, removing the need for disparate systems and data duplication
Provide complete traceability, for ISO9001 compliance and customer satisfaction
Ensure your supply chain is up to scratch

Finance

Features

Auto-generated invoices
Financial systems integration
Automated sales & purchase ledger
Customer & supplier credit management

What it means to your business

Connect your production information with your financial systems, so you can easily transfer data without duplication and see how new sales directly impact on financial decisions
Ensure your customers are invoiced accurately & promptly to maximise cashflow
Choose to prevent jobs commencing or deliveries being despatched to customer s who have reached their credit limit, reducing the financial risk to your business

Sales Order Processing

Features

Docketing
Simple order entry
Contract review & FAIR staged gates
Order acknowledgement

What it means to your business

Docket items on arrival at Goods In for complete visibility of what’s on-site
Build your library of industry & material specs, parts & routes to allow streamlined entry of sales orders
Ensure contract reviews are completed up-front to reduce risk to your business
Prompt order book acknowledgements to customers improve job visibility to improve customer confidence

Production

Features

Create job cards
Technical documentation
Scheduling
Machine loading
Configuration management

What it means to your business

Part issue & drawing issue control ensure you are always working to the latest customer requirements
Create detailed routes, with integrated process instructions and customer specifications
Ensure that your shop floor have access to all the required information at the relevant time, ensuring the highest quality product

Shop Floor Data Collection

Features

Real time data collection
WIP tracking
Job costing information

What it means to your business

Track where jobs are in the production process, in real-time, with employees clocking on and off jobs and parts on the line
Accurately measure how long a process takes, and how much it will cost the business, so you provide accurate job costing
Employees can capture rejects, lost time & machine breakdowns through the SFDC interface, without having to leave the shop floor
Track who did what activity, for which job, when and for how long, to provide complete audit traceability, for AS9100 & ISO9001 compliance

Human Resources

Features

Time & attendance
Skills matrix
Approved operators

What it means to your business

Monitor time & attendance to track hours worked, and identify employees working overtime, or coming in late to make employment decisions
Identify the key skills required for each operation and match your employees’ skill levels against requirements.
Prevent operators from carrying out operations they aren’t qualified for & identify any training needs

Reporting

Features

Auto-generate reports
Report scheduling
Share reports
Produce bar charts, pie charts and line-graphs

What it means to your business

Streamline reporting, by setting up KPIs and key reports that schedule to run on designated dates & times
Increase company transparency and collaboration, by sharing reports via email with your colleagues and teams

“Since introducing the system, time spent creating reports has reduced considerably, and what used to take 4 hours a day can now be done in 10 minutes.”

- Metfin Group Holdings Ltd.

Scale Your System as You Grow Your Business

After initial success, you may want to upgrade your system, to do more. With our innovative modular system, our Business Improvement modules enable you to customise your system to suit you company’s needs, and only pay for the modules you

See below to find out more about the modules our clients love to use in conjunction with their Tricorn: DNA^sp platform.

Aerospace Excellence

Chemical Analysis

Smart Workflow

Business Intelligence

Mobile Auditing

Smart Data Capture

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Simplify treatments from Quotation to Invoice

Docketing

Quotations

Sales Order Entry

Engineering

Purchasing

Shop Floor Data Capture

Quality

Despatch

Invoicing

Tricorn: DNA^sp’s docketing function has been specifically designed for the special process industry, to ensure visibility & traceability of your order book from the moment jobs arrive through your door.

With Tricorn: DNA^sp quotation functionality, you can easily log, complete and send your quotes, track their conversion rates, and use them as a start point for entering incoming sales orders.

Sales order entry functionality in Tricorn: DNA^sp allows you to efficiently capture all the customer data you need, easily enter orders onto the system ready for production, and control the contract review and order acknowledgement processes.

Tricorn: DNA^sp allows you to maintain comprehensive special process engineering details, and ensure they are visible to the right people, at the right time.

Purchasing with Tricorn: DNA^sp is easy due to the central purchase requisition list, which ensures all materials are flagged to be ordered and delivered in time for the appropriate operation, whilst controlling stock levels and maintaining traceability.

Tricorn: DNA^sp touchscreens allow operators easy access to all relevant information, ensure accurate job costings to inform pricing, and provide comprehensive WIP tracking.

Tricorn: DNA^sp can remove the need for disparate quality systems & centralise all your quality needs. It allows you to concentrate on continuous improvement programmes, whilst ensuring you comply with ISO & customer requirements.

With Tricorn: DNA^sp, you can easily select and despatch your finished jobs to customers, confident that the paperwork will maintain traceability and comply with customer needs.

Tricorn: DNA^sp’s invoicing functionality allows you full control of your invoice & credit activities; improving efficiency and greatly reducing time spent on non-value adding tasks.

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Helping Metal Finishers Do More

Colour Anodising Ltd.

An ambitious company, specialising in Commercial, Aluminium, Safety Equipment, Automotive and architectural anodising; Colour Anodising needed a replacement for their existing MRP system, to help them grow. According to Managing Director, Jonathon Buckley, "The Tricorn: DNA^sp implementation ensured no disruption of service, and now booking in is now 50% faster, jobs to production is 30% quicker, and we’ve seen a rise in customer satisfaction”

A growing company specialising in Powder Coating, Metafin supply some of the leading Automotive Manufacturers, and required a system that would provide greater visibility, accurate job costing, and more cohesive process control. We provided Metafin with Tricorn: DNA^sp, and integrated advanced reporting, SFDC, and customer portal modules. This resulted in increased efficiency, improved productivity, and has seen them continue their growth.

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