Enhance efficiency and accuracy in foundry operations with BIAS’s comprehensive module.
If you manage a foundry or metal casting operation in Dubai & the UAE, you know that your success hinges on thermal physics, material science, and precise process control. You are not a standard fabrication shop. Your workflow is complex, starting with calculating the charge of molten metal, managing intense heat cycles, and tracking complex cooling curves before any finishing work even begins.
Generic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP for foundry) solutions fail because they are fundamentally built for repetitive, discrete assembly. They do not understand tonnage, the critical cost of energy, the continuous loop of scrap recovery, or the specialized quality requirements of the metal casting industry. When you use unsuitable software, you create manual workarounds, data silos, and, ultimately, profit leakage. You need specialized foundry ERP software in Dubai built to handle the heat. You need Odoo.
Odoo provides a flexible, unified platform that directly addresses your toughest operational challenges. This isn’t just an ERP software for foundry management in Dubai; it’s a complete business management suite that integrates metallurgy with modern finance and manufacturing best practices.
The complexity of costing in a foundry is one of the biggest reasons standard ERPs break down. Your cost calculation must go beyond the purchase price of raw materials. It must consider every kilowatt-hour as well as every minute of melting.
With Odoo, we use Melt Management & Cost Traceability tools to give you that granularity. The system ensures precise cost capture with the following features:
includes purchase cost of pig iron and alloys plus the cost fluctuations of energy consumption and all labor costs related to the melt cycle.
systematically allocates all overheads (e.g. furnace maintenance and refractory replacement) to specific production orders based on machine hours worked.
define what the optimal charge recipes look like based on the alloy specification and manage the use of value scrap against virgin material for a direct effect on unit cost.
This level of detail means no hidden costs, allowing your sales team back in Dubai to quote with complete confidence and better profit every contract they complete.
In the casting business, scrap is not simply waste; it is a critical, high-value resource. Tracking, valuing, and re-using runners, risers and internal returns effectively is critical to maintain your margins. If this task has to be conducted manually you will be losing money on inventory value as a matter of course.
Odoo allows for a cycle of dynamic Automated Scrap Loop and provides enhanced levels of inventory control.
The system records the returns from the finishing line immediately, properly values the scrap material according to its alloy content, and makes it available in inventory for the next melt charge.
Due to proper tracking and valuing of scrap, your BOM is the actual amount of lower cost material you recovered for future melts, greatly offsetting any theoretical cost inflation.
Control complex inventory of multiple grade pig iron, ferroalloys and fluxes which are tracked by heat number or batch number with proper segregation from one side of the warehouse to the other.
“If it melts, Odoo tracks it. Stop losing money on undocumented scrap—turn your waste into profit.”
Foundries often struggle with inaccurate raw material forecasts, leading to excess stock or shortages. Odoo eliminates this with Daily Alloy Requirement Planning.
For any foundry working within the competitive UAE market, quality control shouldn’t be the last step in the process—it is part of the process requiring full and trustworthy traceability from when the metal is poured.
We offer Integrated Quality Gates that link the testing directly to the production order flow to ensure nothing leaves the floor without being verified:
Verify temperature and chemical are close enough at the furnace to avoid bad pouring temperatures and wrong alloy mixes.
Log and attach NDT results (ultrasonic inspection, magnetic particle inspection, etc.) against production batch and serial number with ease.
Provide an audit trail that is unassailable from the raw materials heat number to the final cast component to ensure complete compliance with ISO standards and client specifications.
This level of control significantly reduces product recalls and warranty claims that could negatively impact your reputation in The Gulf’s extensive market.
Swift Foundry Operations
Scheduling based on simple piece count ignores your most severe physical limits: furnace capacity, cooling floor space, and finishing line availability. Scheduling by weight and volume is necessary to ensure maximum furnace uptime and avoid expensive bottlenecks.
Advantage from Tonnage-Based Scheduling. Odoo has been designed specifically to optimize your shop floor activities and:
Clear, real-time view of actual furnace capacity and melting schedules.
Will schedule finishing work to consider cooling time and capacity at grinding and machining stations.
Delivering reliable, data-backed lead times, which is crucial for improving client trust and securing repeat business in Dubai and the wider UAE industrial sector.
Uses OCR and artificial intelligence technologies to encode automatically your business documents in your MES Module .
Automatically spread in multiple entries to reflect your deferred revenue and deferred expenses, created in draft mode and posted periodically.
Set up your assets models and never deal with your depreciation entries anymore.
Get automatic reconciliation propositions and register extra journal items on the fly.
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