ORAC Decor

From paper to digital planning and execution at ORAC Decor

ORAC Decor replaced printed orders and spreadsheets with one digital flow from planning to the shop floor, connected to SAP.

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ORAC Decor using a digital operations platform on the shop floor

Goal

More products, more lines.
One connected way to run them.

For more than 50 years, ORAC Decor has made skirting boards, wall moldings, cornice moldings and decorative wall products in Belgium.

What ORAC Decor wanted

The goal: one connected way to plan production, maintain molds and report from the shop floor, while product variety and volume kept growing.

The result: a paperless shop floor where planners and operators work from the same live data, and SAP is updated as the work is done.

About ORAC Decor

ORAC Decor is a Belgian family-owned manufacturer of architectural and decorative wall elements. It combines craftsmanship and design with modern production.

As production grew across several lines and sites, ORAC Decor needed one platform for planning and shop floor control. It had to connect to SAP and take paper out of the process.

Challenges

Paper on the floor.
Delays nobody saw coming.

Before 24Flow, ORAC Decor dealt with problems most high-mix manufacturers will recognize:

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Paper and Excel

Operators worked from printed production orders, handwritten notes and Excel files. That cost time and caused errors.

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Data in too many places

Production data sat in separate spreadsheets and systems, so nobody could analyze it or improve on it.

03

No live view of the shop floor

Planners could not see bottlenecks, capacity or mold availability in time to act on them.

04

Planning outside SAP

Planning ran outside the ERP, so updates came late and every handover took extra coordination.

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Lead times creeping up

Manual data entry and firefighting slowed production down and hurt on-time delivery.

Solution

Planning, molds and reporting.
One platform, linked to SAP.

ORAC Decor runs 24Flow next to its SAP system. Planning and shop floor reporting happen in 24Flow, and SAP is updated as work is done. See how 24Flow connects to SAP.

24Planning

Planners build and adjust the schedule with drag and drop, linked to SAP. Machine and mold constraints are taken into account automatically.

Team Cockpit for production orders

Operators register yield, scrap and start and stop times at their workstation. No retyping, and SAP is updated in real time.

Team Cockpit for mold maintenance

One visual overview of mold status and maintenance needs, so planners schedule maintenance around production and cut downtime.

Paperless shop floor

Live screens replace printouts. Operators and supervisors see current priorities and progress.

Built together

24Flow mapped ORAC Decor’s workflows with the operations teams and configured the platform around them.

Impact

From the workstation
straight to SAP.

Planning, mold maintenance and shop floor reporting now run on one platform linked to SAP. What changed:

Less admin

Data flows from the workstation to SAP, so planners and operators spend their time on the work, not on typing it over.

A live view of the floor

Dashboards show progress, bottlenecks and available resources, so planners act before delays build up.

More predictable delivery

Planning and production work from the same SAP-linked data, so delivery dates are easier to keep.

Less scrap and rework

Production data shows where scrap comes from, so ORAC Decor can fix the cause and improve quality.

In their own words

“24Flow has enabled us to transition from a traditional, paper-based operation to a fully digital factory. Our production teams are now empowered to work more efficiently and respond quickly to changes. We’ve seen a marked improvement in delivery reliability and operational efficiency since implementing 24Flow.”

Thomas Nyssens, Business Sponsor and Group Operations Director, ORAC Decor

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