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QUALITY ENGINEERED
SYSTEMS LTD. PRODUCT TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT NEWS VOLUME 1, No 2 – Q3/2005 |
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Welcome back to our third quarter issue of ONTRACK – a newsletter designed to keep our user
community in touch with what is happening at QES. The summer is over and everyone is settling in back at work
after the vacations, visitors and summer family activities. We
at QES kept busy over the summer putting the final touches on our latest
project down in New Mexico. We kept
busy also traveling around visiting prospective clients and working with
existing clients on adding more functionality and power to their
systems. It has been an exciting
summer and we are anxious to get busy on the projects scheduled for the
coming year. We are also looking
forward to the next release of BLACKBIRD PTMS, expected early in 2006 which
will add even more power and functionality to the product. This quarter marks the
announcement of a new and very significant relationship for QES. It is with PT Dirjo Mulia from Indonesia
who gives QES a very visible presence in the vibrant industry of South East
Asia. A new feature we have
added this issue is “Customers in the News” where we will feature the
activities and accomplishments of our customers from around the world. This issue we see some news from one of
QES’s oldest customers, Howe Sound Pulp & Paper LP. This mill has been at the forefront of
environmental activities for decades and their leadership continues, as you
will read below. |
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LATEST INSTALLATION
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BLACKBIRD'S 28th PRODUCTION LINE Last edition, QES announced the startup of its software on its 28th production line but at the time we did not identify the mill. This was deliberate as the mill had recently undergone an ownership change and we needed to wait until the dust settled before we could get permission to use their name. That permission has been granted now and we are pleased to identify the mill the NBSK mill in Castlegar BC, recently acquired by Mercer International, and operating under its new name as “Zellstoff Celgar”. |
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29th PRODUCTION LINE |
DURANGO McKINLEY PAPER COMPANY The project at Durango McKinley Paper Company in Prewitt New Mexico, has been the subject of a lot of work over the summer and the Factory acceptance Tests were held in early September. The software is now in its final tuning stage and will be implemented during an upcoming shut down. The BLACKBIRD® suite of products to be installed will manage all of Durango’s paper business activities, from sales and marketing, through the shop floor tracking, quality management, warehousing, distribution and invoicing. BLACKBIRD® will also be extended back into the supply chain to track and manage the flow of raw materials - OCC - to the mill The first phase of the OCC system will be installed at the scale house and will provide the mill with a powerful tool to reduce the impact of truck detention charges. |
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Trimming
Partner at
Durango |
Scheduling and Trimming During the Durango McKinley Paper project, QES has
worked closely with Greycon to integrate Greycon’s industry leading trim
package X-Trim with BLACKBIRD’s own powerful block scheduling
application, to give Durango a tightly integrated package for planning,
trimming and executing their manufacturing requirements. Greycon is the
developer and supplier of industry leading solutions for roll trim
optimization, finite capacity scheduling and tactical planning systems. |
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High
Speed Wrapping! |
Fastest Roll Wrapping Line in the World?? BLACKBIRD is currently presiding over what is perhaps the fastest single line roll wrapping line (film wrap) in the world. It has been running for almost two years now and performs flawlessly day in and day out. According to the suppliers, Automatic Handling International, this line operates at a cycle time of 28.5 seconds giving it a capacity of upwards of 2900 wrapped packages per day. Automatic Handling Inc, based in Michigan is a leading supplier of wrapping lines for the pulp and paper industry. |
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INDONESIA |
QES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA QES has appointed PT Dirjo Mulia Internasional as their representatives for the Indonesian and Malaysian markets. PT Dirjo Mulia is headed up by Chuck Barber who has had broad experience in the pulp and paper industry with GP, Weyerhaeuser and P&W in the US and more recently with the APRIL group from Singapore. Chuck spent a number of years with APRIL as the Technical Sales Manager for their Riau Pulp operation in Sumatra. During this time he established himself in the regions industry and upon leaving APRIL he set up his own company based in Jakarta. Dirjo Mulia is involved in a number of areas of the regions industry including testing instruments sales and is thus a natural fit for QES and its Quality Systems. |
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Representative Appointed |
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WETLAB 5 UPDATE |
WetLab in the Cariboo! The latest installation of WetLab 5 is at Cariboo
Pulp and Paper Company in Quesnel BC.
Cariboo Pulp produces high quality bleached softwood Kraft pulp and
always strives to exceed customer expectations for product quality and
service. Cariboo was looking for a
system that would simplify the process of generating, accurate, reproducible
beater curves. Installed as part of a
continuous improvement program to ensure that curves were produced in a
reproducible manner with a minimum of effort, WetLab 5 has met their
expectations. The new system has
reduced the time spent on repetitive data transcription and curve preparation
and will soon provide a direct feed of test data into the mill wide computer
system. Since installation, QES is
working with the staff at Cariboo to personalize their system and to give it
the exact look and versatility that they need. The driver behind the acquisition of WetLab 5, Quality
Assurance Supervisor Steve Schneider says "the technicians are happy
with the move to WetLab and QES has provided good technical support for us!” |
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CUSTOMERS
IN THE NEWS |
Environmental Leadership at HSPP Howe Sound Pulp and Paper is our oldest customer
with their first system built in the early 1980’s and they are still running an
updated version of that software. HSPP has long viewed good environmental stewardship
as one of it’s primary responsibilities to the community and has an equally
long record of innovation an leadership in environmental affairs. The current manager for environmental affairs at
HSPP, Mr. Al Strang, has just been
appointed to lead a national committee on the management of air quality
issues facing the forest products industry.
Included on the committee with be representatives from a broad
spectrum of stakeholders. Click on the link below to see the full story. |
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