Inzol

A plant that loses hours each week to manual stock counts or hand-built production reports is the kind of customer Inzol describes. The firm, whose website is written in Spanish, specializes in improving manufacturing, maintenance and logistics operations, using a methodology it developed to combine process engineering with industrial management technology.

From plant diagnosis to software

Its work begins with analysis. The company looks at the operational problems of industrial plants and at the technology infrastructure already in place, then designs processes around what it finds. A dedicated software team creates, adapts or integrates applications for Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 needs, built from the client's own requirements. Inzol also says it has partnered with companies that hold leading solutions in their fields, which lets it bring internationally validated technology into its own projects.

SAP logistics knowledge

A separate service line covers SAP's logistics modules, where the firm says it supplies expert knowledge of each process. Its case material shows SAP sitting alongside the custom tools it builds.

Three worked examples

The firm publishes case studies from industrial clients. For a wood exporter that handles more than 800 thousand cubic meters a year, it automated woodyard management, a job where more than a thousand trucks must be loaded in about five days once a ship reaches port and delays or poor coordination are costly.

For another client, it built a mobile warehouse management system. The client had no way to see stock in its different states inside the plant, such as work in progress, picking, reprocessing or quarantine, and staff recounted each state by hand every day to know what could be sold.

For a producer of daily, weekly and monthly production and availability reports, it built a web indicator system. The reports cover material consumption, quantities made, quality and equipment downtime, and they are compared with weekly goals. Before the system, the client spent many hours each week preparing, checking and uploading this information to SAP.

Approach

Inzol says it devises the best solution for each case according to the client's needs and possibilities, rather than starting from a fixed product. Its stated aim is operational success through improved and digitalized processes.