A+W Software GmbH

Company address

Siemensstrasse 3
Fernwald 35463
Germany

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

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We make our customer’s business more efficient!

A+W are global market leaders in fully integrated software systems for the flat glass industry and window and door production. We are developing ERP-, PPS- and optimisation systems to make glass and window producers more efficient. Our products are suited for small, medium-sized, and big companies. We have been on the market for more than 30 years, selling our products world-wide.

Our cooperation with so many companies in the industry as we all with machinery manufacturers, our long years of experience and the constant development of our software hold many advantages for our customers. Our solutions help to control and optimise the entire value added chain, from basic glass up to the finished window or storefronts.

A+W products stand for completely integrated, networked business control. ERP and PPS systems will help you create quotations, place orders, do capacity planning, manage the stock on hand, purchase goods, plan and control production, do dynamic optimisations, control harp racks, control despatch, issue invoices, run statistics and analyses, and much more...

 

Service for you

A+W provides service for their customers, right from the start. On-site analysis, consulting prior to a possible partnership, or long-term service from our consultants and support teams after signing the contract: You will find yourself in good hands.

We want to render our customers’ business more efficient, in the long run. This means that we will deal with your questions and problems instantly, and thoroughly. Our consulting, workshop and training program, international service points, and our central support hotline guarantee optimum service. Regular customer surveys help to gauge the degree of satisfaction as a basis for constant improvement.


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Products

A+W BUSINESS PRO
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Integrated Production Control - A+W Business Pro is a professional and cost-effective entry-level solution for small and medium-sized companies. The process from quotation to dispatch has never been easier!
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Functionalities & Benefits

  • Fully integrated commercial & production system
  • Wizard function for quick production release
  • Possibility for more detailed and optimized planning with expert mode
  • Easy and quick output of production papers and NC code for cutting tables, IG lines, and benders
  • Combination of B.O.M. items in production batches (multi-step-production)
  • Integrated rack allocation after cutting
  • Selection, reservation and booking of stock plates
  • Cutting optimization per batch and glass type based on the latest algorithms
  • Predefined production lists and labels
  • Machine connectors for cutting tables, benders and IG lines
  • Job completion for optimizations
  • correct inventory thanks to reports from production
  • Lot of add-ons: possibility to grow
A+W BUSINESS
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Clearer, simpler, more intelligent - A+W Business is a new-generation ERP system for the flat glass industry. Quotations, order processing, purchasing, shipping and invoicing have never been easier!
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Functionalities & Benefits

  • Modern look & feel like MS Outlook: Multi dialog interface, easy usage, everything graphical
  • Construction & processing via BOM Concept: every level & part of a product can be processed (processing = article number)
  • Easy order handling: copy documents (order -> P.O.), automatic purchasing
  • User and / or automated order / P.O. processing: define work flows and user rights, time and cost savings thanks to automation
  • Interconnection with A+W Production: transfer of orders & P.O.`s, production status & feedback
  • Full integration of CAD Designer (Shapes & Bars): easy Technical Order Entry (TOE)
  • Integration of A+W standard shape & standard processing catalog
  • Crystal Reports: easy and quick reports and analyses
  • Simple master data replication (in case of several subsidiaries)
A+W ENTERPRISE
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The group solution - A+W Enterprise is an integrated, database-based overall ERP solution for the flat glass industry. The system is designed for groups of companies and upper-middle class companies with several subsidiaries, and is being used by major players in the flat glass industry world-wide.
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Functionalities & Benefits

  • Fast entering of orders and P.O.s
  • Automated order and P.O. processing and distribution
  • Construction & processing via BOM Concept: every level & part of a product can be processed (processing = article number)
  • Distribution of offers and orders across multiple sites
  • Completely automatic handling of group-internal orders / P.O.s
  • Reduction of input errors thanks to graphical user interface automatic adaptation of the parts lists
  • Quick process and order handling thanks to automated processes in purchasing, sales, dispatch, and warehouse
  • Quick entry and processing of large quantities of orders
  • Great system stability and security based on UNIX system and Informix database
  • Creation of new product master data during order entry
  • Portable html web interface possible (add-on)
A+W PRODUCTION
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Flexibility - Sequence - Waste: It is up to you to decide and control! - A+W Production is a highly flexible PPS solution for IG-, toughened glass-, laminated glass-, and multi-stepped production. The system allows to plan and control even highly sophisticated, multi-stepped production processes.
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Functionalities & Benefits

  • Production planning and control by various restrictions (machines, process sequence … )
  • Job management using predefined and self-defined views thanks to open database & views
  • Yield optimization by state of the art optimization kernel
  • Sequence optimization, rack and stacking organization and optimization
  • Optimization directly onto racks and boxes in despatch sequence (Add-On A+W Rack Optimizer)
  • Cutting plan visualization and modification
  • Easy machinery management and direct machine control
  • Efficient & graphical Capacity Planner (Add-On)
  • Full integration of barcoding and tracking (Add-On A+W Barcode Manager)
  • Always up to date statistics using Crystal Reports
  • Prinout of production papers, bender text`s and barcode labels
  • Possibility to grow with your company based on add-ons like Capacity Planner, Barcoding, Production Terminal
A+W STATIC OPTIMIZER
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The A+W Static Optimizer is the successor to the classical stand-alone solution XOPT. Cut sizes, rectangles, and shapes can be entered manually or imported via an interface file. An improved optimization algorithm guarantees minimum waste and at the same time best suited cutting patterns for an easy breakout at the cutting tables. After an optimization, the cutting plans can be modified manually.
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Functionalities & Benefits

  • Fully graphic user interface
  • Easy administration of article master data
  • DXF import from A+W CAD Designer (Shapes) possible
  • Creation of NC code for multiple cutting tables with different restrictions
  • In the office or directly at the cutting table
  • usage of free shapes (shape 99)
  • A+W standard shape catalog included
  • Simple entry of production jobs and filler orders / filler lites
  • Printout of production papers and labels
  • Designed for manual, paper based production control
  • Single glass optimizations (not suited for IG / Lamy)
  • 18 different optimization strategies
A+W CAD DESIGNER ARCHITECTURE
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A+W CAD Designer allows the input of the data of sheets and contours and of all processing steps, the import of customer‘s CAD data, and the digitizing of templates via digitizing table or virtual digitizing. From these data A+W CAD Designer creates CNC codes for cutting lines and processing machines, e. g. positioning parameters, grinding codes, and drilling instructions.
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The special challenge in connection with entering free shapes for architectural glass applications is to enter a vast number of parameters quickly and accurately and sketch them technically correct to turn them into a reliable CNC code.

Functionalities & Benefits

  • Easy and quick creation of complex individual shapes and standard template files for re-use in ERP systems
  • Easy entering and changing of difficult shapes and processings (for example edge deletion or complex cut-outs)
  • Little training required thanks to graphical tools and modern user guidance
  • Correction of imprecise digitalized shapes with the A+W patented smoothing process (streaming mode)
  • Possibility of direct control of your CNC machine
  • Extension of your product-specific shape catalog by free constructions with A+W CAD Designer (Shapes)
  • Efficient data compilation and processing, made possible by the separation of fixed and variable dimensioning
  • Editing of data for the optimization / production control with machinery control (optional)
  • Templates can be defined with fixed or variable parameters.
A+W CAD DESIGNER AUTOMOTIVE
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A+W CAD Designer Automotive particularly supports the requirements resulting from the production conditions of automotive glass. Special digitizing methods allow swift digitizing of templates. Peculiarities of different line layouts are taken into account. NC programs for all machines of a line are created in one step. Several production lines can be controlled by just one A+W CAD Designer file.
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The special challenge in connection with entering free shapes for automobile glassapplications is to enter a vast number of parameters quickly and accurately and sketch them technically correct to turn them into a reliable CNC code.

Functionalities & Benefits

  • Easy and quick creation of complex individual shapes and standard template files for re-use in ERP systems
  • Easy entering and changing of difficult shapes and processings (for example complex cut-outs or radii)
  • Little training required thanks to graphical tools and modern user guidance
  • Correction of imprecise digitalized shapes with the A+W patented smoothing process (streaming mode)
  • Possibility of direct control of your CNC machine
  • Extension of your product-specific shape catalog by free constructions with A+W CAD Designer
  • Editing of data for the optimization / production control with machinery control (optional)
A+W CANTOR
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A+W CANTOR ENTERPRISE - Your business processes are consistently illustrated in A+W Cantor Enterprise.
A+W CANTOR PRODUCTION - Organize your production more efficiently with A+W Cantor Production.
A+W CANTOR RESELLER - As a window producer, you can provide your dealers with the modules from A+W Cantor Reseller.
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A+W Cantor Enterprise

You are guided through the entry of offers and jobs and incorrect entries or technically incomplete entries are ruled out, as extensive rules for technical checks are entered in the master data alongside items such as fittings or profiles. Thanks to integrated materials management, data is only entered once in the job and is available for orders of purchased parts and stock.

http://www.a-w.de/us/products/a-w-cantor/a-w-cantor-enterprise/



A+W Cantor Production

A+W Cantor creates transparency in your company – continuously through to your production incl. shipping as well as service and installation planning. You always maintain an overview and work to schedule and according to requirements.

You can display the current status of the order for example. This means that you can give your customers direct information and save searching for paper files in production, which takes time.

http://www.a-w.de/us/products/a-w-cantor/a-w-cantor-production/



A+W Cantor Reseller

»Our dealers can use our A+W Cantor dealer software to take care of their offers, job confirmations, orders and invoices. This software is just the right tool to organize the operating process quickly, simply and securely. Thanks to clearly organized offers, the order rate increases and costs go down thanks to simple and clear processes. 73% of the windows we make are ordered with the software.«

   - Karl-Wilhelm Siems, Siems fenster + türen GmbH

The reseller version can be run via a web-shop as a multi-trade system, with which several dealers work as an individual client on a central instance or as a local installation for your individual dealers.

http://www.a-w.de/us/products/a-w-cantor/a-w-cantor-reseller/