The manufacturing specialist PSIPENTA Software Systems GmbH is presenting a new major release of the PSIpenta ERP suite from 16 to 20 March 2015 at the CeBIT in Hanover (Hall 5, Stand E16). The new PSIpenta focuses on the usability aspects of the fourth industrial revolution.
Along with a number of new functional developments, the new version 9 of the PSIpenta ERP suite offers a new Java-based graphical user interface in which the requirements for a positive user experience have been implemented. Both interfaces as well as processes can be readily customised in the working process and therefore simplify the interaction with the complex functionality. Thus, the user’s role can be adapted to the current working context and task and information can be presented in a clear manner. Related information can be visualised with synchronised views and decision-making processes are supported with a 360-degree view of the surrounding area.
In the future, all PSI products will use a Java client developed in the group so as to guarantee an integrated, uniform user interface and standard interaction between the products. This will serve to increase the developmental speed and integration of third-party products. The standardisation of software is a primary requirement of the fourth industrial revolution, which PSI has fulfilled with this step.
As a software provider for the StreetScooter GmbH, which was recently acquired by the Deutsche Post DHL, PSIPENTA will be presenting a prototype of the StreetScooter C16 at its stand. Using the example of an electric car, an additive manufacturing scenario, i.e. a modern and, above all, significantly faster approach to automobile construction and manufacture or the production of spare parts, will be demonstrated. A service incident is simulated in the PSIpenta ERP suite and the production order generated. The system sends the order to the 3D printer, which then prints the spare part required.
PSIPENTA is especially pleased about the choice of China as this year’s CeBIT partner country. PSIPENTA has already accompanied many German customers on their way to China and now supports its first Chinese companies with a country-specific software portfolio. “As a software provider for numerous hidden champions for the manufacturing industry, with our support we offer companies from the up-and-coming industrial nation China precisely that which they require to develop into high-tech companies,” says Alfred M. Keseberg emphasising the importance of the cooperation of the German IT sector with China.
StreetScooter: A StreetScooter weighs a mere 450 kg without battery. The vehicle, designed primarily for short trips, can go up to 100 km/ h and has a range of 100 km. The important vehicle components with a length of one meter come from the 3D production system.
PSIPENTA has been providing the IT basis for the order administration, production planning and steering as well as the design methods for the optimisation of the feeding of electrical energy into the production processes since 2013.
PSI in China: The PSI Group has been represented in China with offices in Beijing and Shanghai since 2004. Along with the on-site support, customers profit from the multisite control of PSIpenta/Multisite, the UNICODE capability that a Chinese language version also provides as well as country-specific adjustments in the software products. Tuned to the market, PSI offers a manufacturing execution system (MES) portfolio in China that is specialized on the requirements of the mechanical engineering, aviation, automobile and rail industries.
On the basis of its own software products, PSI AG develops and integrates complete solutions for energy management (gas, oil, electricity, heat, energy trading), production management (mining, metals, automotive, mechanical engineering, logistics) and infrastructure management for transport and safety. PSI was founded in 1969 and employs 1,700 persons worldwide.
