Lighthouse ERP
Stainless & Alloy Steel industry
Simple to Use
Easy to Implement
Flexible to Customized Solution
The Stainless & Alloy Steel Industry is marked by a vast range of products with highly customized grades and specifications tailored to individual customer requirements. Managing such complexity demands precise planning, real-time monitoring, and seamless coordination across multiple production stages.
Lighthouse ERP for Stainless Steel Industry is purpose-built to address these dynamic operational needs. With industry-specific modules and over three decades of domain experience, This ERP for steel industry offers a robust, scalable, and highly efficient solution that evolves with changing market demands.
From production planning to quality control, and shop floor management to process-specific costing, stainless steel manufacturing ERP maps the industry’s critical workflows with accuracy. Its proven technical capabilities and deep understanding of process interdependencies make it the trusted choice for manufacturers aiming to enhance productivity, reduce delays, and achieve cost efficiency in alloy and stainless-steel production management.
Stainless steel production requires strict control over elements like chromium, nickel, and molybdenum, along with managing diverse grades and custom surface finishes (BA, 2B, No.4), without production planning module stainless steel production management gets complex.
Complete traceability of stainless-steel batches, including heat number, composition, and test certifications throughout the production lifecycles, is necessary for industries such as food, pharmaceutical and aerospace.
Compared to carbon steel, stainless steel is more difficult to manufacture, which increases tool wear. Clean segregation in procedures and equipment is necessary to prevent cross contamination with carbon steel.
In many stainless-steel applications, surface inclusion, pitting, and scratches are unacceptable. Maintaining surface integrity during the forming, polishing, and packing processes so quality checks at each point of production is necessary.
High energy input and exact temperature control are necessary for melting and annealing stainless steel. Costs might rise and impact competitiveness if energy monitoring is not optimized.
Stainless steel melting produces different types of slag compared to carbon steel. Managing slag chemistry and disposal adds to operational complexity and compliance efforts.
Some stainless-steel goods have smaller production volumes and customized grades, which frequently lead to longer production cycles and frequent changeovers, which impact supply reliability and performance.
With numerous grades, finishes, and sizes, stainless steel inventory management becomes complex. Mismanagement can lead to overstocking of slow-moving items or shortages in critical grades.
ERP software for the alloy manufacturing industry enables detailed product classification by grade, finish, and specification, ensuring accurate BOMs and production plans. This reduces errors and ensures that every order meets exact customer requirements.
Easily keep track of batch origins, heat numbers, and quality test results. Steel ERP systems can guarantee that every shipment satisfies customer documentation and regulatory standards by automatically generating Mill Test Certifications.
Monitor tool wear cycles and set preventive maintenance schedules. The Stainless-steel process automation module helps segregate tools and processes for stainless vs. Carbon steel to prevent contamination and ensure production integrity.
Incorporates multi-level quality checkpoints and defects across forming, polishing, and packing. Helps catch surface issues early, ensuring only high-quality output reaches customers.
Track energy consumption per heat, compare energy trends by batch, and identify areas of waste. ERP for stainless steel production management supports energy cost reduction and sustainability goals.
Manage slag output, by-product recovery, and waste disposal through integrated ERP modules. Ensures compliance with environmental norms and enables cost recovery analysis.
Leverage dynamic production planning, intelligent job grouping, and load balancing via stainless steel ERP software to maximize throughput while accommodating customization.
ERP for Alloys offers attribute-based inventory tracking by grade, thickness, finish, and length. Real-time insights help reduce overstocking, and avoid stockouts, and improve order fulfillment accuracy.
Production Planning of (similar product process group or similar type of Semi-finished good or Raw Material group) in one work order plan to save production time. Work Center/ Process wise Planning details.
Unlimited, pre-defined, BOMs meet the unique needs of your manufacturing processes, reflect critical interdependencies, routings for accurate scheduling and planning.
Machine wise, Operator wise, shift wise, production capturing with rejection, shortage quantity, Tools and Consumables required.
Provision to plan job/ lead card for down the line process to club with other job cards eligible for similar process.
Process/stage wise status of customer order which are under production.
MIS on work centers assigned/ balanced lead, computation of machine efficiency and tool life. Factors like breakdown time, machine setting time, power outage etc. are also logged.
Process wise inspection and quality control rejected, rectified, accepted quantity.