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Tricorn: DNAsp

Configurable Metal Finishing Software

"The implementation ensured no disruption of service, and now booking in is now 50% faster, jobs to production is 30% quicker, and we’ve seen a rise in customer satisfaction” Colour Anodising

Configurable Software for Special Process Companies

Special process companies are under pressure to continually reduce costs, provide responsive service levels and achieve highest levels of quality compliance for multiple specifications.

With customers providing limited order book visibility, yet expecting delivery within days; you need a system that can deal with all the niche requirements of special processes to provide flexibility to the volatile and demanding environment.
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Tricorn: DNAsp

​Tricorn: DNAsp is a highly configurable solution, designed by a team that have owned and managed several special process companies. We understand the paperwork, capacity planning and customer visibility challenges facing metal finishing businesses. ​

Tricorn: DNAsp standardises best practice workflow, paperwork, resource planning and performance measures to improve competitiveness of special process companies.
Powder Coating
Plating
Heat Treatments
NDT

Features

Sales Engineering

Streamline paperwork to quickly turn prospects into sales. Tricorn: DNAsp allows you to easily log, complete and send your quotes, track their conversion rates, and use them as a starting point for entering incoming sales orders. With up-to-date and accurate RFQs, you can improve customer communication and confidence.

Features:
• RFQ Processing
• Estimating
• Quotation Generation
• Win/Loss Analysis

Planning Software Solutions

Planning

Treatments and metal finishing can involve numerous operations, and customers often provide limited orderbook visibility, yet expect delivery within days or even hours! Tricorn: DNAsp visual infinite capacity planning helps to identify production bottlenecks and improve job visibility to improve the flow of work through the factory.

Features:
• Capacity management
• Scheduling
• Customer service level planning
• Labour, material & tooling planning


What it means to your business:
• Analyse current capacity availability using SFDC and jobs-in-production data, to view resources committed and available.
• Provide customers with realistic promise dates that are informed by current capacity availability to ensure you can deliver on-time in full.



Purchasing Control

Purchasing in Tricorn: DNAsp provides central purchase requisition list, which ensures all materials are flagged to be ordered and delivered in time for the appropriate operation whilst controlling stock levels and maintaining traceability.

Features:
• Pruchase requisition list
• Create & manage purchase orders
• Inventory management
• Goods-in stores
• Paint & chemicals

What it means to your business:
• Easily produce purchase orders, GIN labels and delivery notes to track what’s coming in and going out
• Monitor shelf-life of stock, and set up alerts when chemicals and paints expire.
• Set minimum stock levels for reorder, trace every batch back to its source and easily run stock take reports



Quality

Tricorn: DNAsp can remove the need for disparate quality systems and centralise all your quality needs. It allows you to concentrate on continuous improvement programmes whilst ensuring you comply with ISO, IATF & customer requirements.

Log NCRs & internal rejects, and perform full reject analysis to identify root causes and continuously improve performance.

Features
• Calibration tracking
• Approved supplier register
• Automated SC21 metrics
• Non-conformance management
• Root cause analysis
• Inspection
• Certificate of conformity generation

What it means to your business:
• Control all your internal, customer and supplier rejects within one solution; to remove the need for disparate systems and data duplication
• Provide complete traceability for ISO9001 compliance and customer satisfaction
• Manage supply compliance to ensure your supply chain is up to scratch



Finance

Tricorn: Treatments connects your production information with your financial systems, so you can monitor everything in one place, and easily transfer data without duplication and see how new sales directly impact on financial decisions.

The detailed job costings allow you to see the time & resources allocated to each operation. Utilising Shop floor data collection, Tricorn: DNAsp provides full visibility of the true cost of your processes and a clear understand of each job’s profit margins.

Features
• Auto-generated invoices
• Financial systems integration
• Automated sales & purchase ledge
• Customer & supplier credit management
• Two way dynamic link with accounting packages, including SAGE, Pegasus and Xero

What it means to your business
• Ensure customers are invoiced accurately & promptly to maximise cash flow
• The live-link with accounting packages allows you to see and act upon real-time credit statuses of your customers and suppliers.
• Put a stop on jobs commencing or deliveries being dispatched to customers who have reached their credit limit, reducing the financial risk to your business

Integrates with:
SAGE - Pegasus - Xero


Sales Order Processing

Process sales orders in Tricorn: DNAsp with docketing, specifically for the treatments industry, and streamlined sales order entry.

Docket goods as soon as they arrive to provide traceability and visibility of jobs.
Efficiently capture all customer data your need, easily enter orders onto the system ready for production, and control the contract review and order acknowledgement processes.
Store information from customers for processing repeat orders.

Features
• Docketing
• Simple order entry
• Contract review
• Order acknowledgement

What it means to your business
• Docket items on arrival at Goods-in, to ensure visibility and traceability of your order book from when jobs arrive through your door
• Build your library of industry & material specs, parts & routes to allow streamlined entry of sales orders
• Ensure contract reviews are complete up-front to reduce risk to your business
• Prompt order book acknowledgements to customers improve job visibility to improve customer confidence

“Since implementing the system, booking in is now 50% faster, jobs to production is 30% quicker, and we’ve seen a rise in customer satisfaction” – Colour Anodising Ltd.


Production

Tricorn: DNAsp allows you to maintain comprehensive engineering details, and ensure they are visible to the right people at the right time.

Features:
 • Create job cards
• Technical documentation
• Scheduling
• Machine loading
• Configuration management
• Job Splitting
• Job Grouping


What it means to your business:
 • Part issue & drawing issue control ensure you are always working to the latest customer specifications
• Ensure that your shop floor have access to all the required information at the relevant time, ensuring the highest quality product
• Tricorn: DNAsp mirrors how you work day-to-day, allowing you to group jobs for ease of processing whilst maintaining full traceability and batch details.
• For partial rejects/reworks, capacity restrictions, or materials shortages, splitting jobs helps you maintain productivity and customer satisfaction. In Tricorn: DNAsp, splitting jobs into small batches is simple & straightforward, allowing you to continue with the job at hand, in any situation.


Shop Floor Data Collection

Tricorn: DNAsp touchscreens allow operators easy access to all relevant information, ensure accurate job costings to inform pricing, and provide comprehensive WIP tracking.

It not only captures when operators clock on or off and scan on or off jobs, it gives them live work-to-lists and allows them to report rejects without leaving the shop floor.

Features
 • Real-time data collection
• WIP tracking
• Job costing information

What it means to your business:
• Track where jobs are in the process, in real-time, with employees clocking on and off jobs and parts on the line
• Accurately measure how long a process takes, and how much it will cost the business, so you provide accurate job costing
• Employees can capture rejects, lost time & machine breakdowns through the SFDC interface, without having to leave the shop floor
• Track who did what activity, for which job, when and for how long, to provide complete audit traceability, for NADCAP, AS9100, ISO9001 compliance


Human Resources

Effectively manage human resources to track time-and-attendance and monitor skills and training plans to ensure operators are trained for work they perform.

Features
 • Time & attendance
• Skills Matrix
• Approved operators

What it means to your business
 • Monitor time & attendance to track hours worked, and identify employees working overtime, or coming in late to make employment decisions
• Identify the key skills required for each operation and match your employees’ skill levels against requirements.
• Prevent operators from carrying out operations they aren’t qualified for & identify any training needs


Reporting

There are two forms of reporting available for Tricorn: DNAsp:
• In the system itself, you can create and run reports efficiently and effectively. Schedule them to auto-run and share with senior leadership, colleagues and teams.
• Or use the cloud-based AnalytiQs app. Simply set-up KPIs to track with drag-and-drop functionality; personalise dashboards for each user; and watch as they update in real-time, providing information to the shop floor, the boardroom, or your mobile phone.

Features
 • Auto-generate reports
• Report scheduling
• Share reports
• Produce bar charts, pie charts and line-graphs

What it means to your business:
• Streamline reporting by setting up KPIs and key reports that schedule to run at designated dates & times
• Increase company transparency and collaboration by sharing reports via email with your colleagues and teams

“Since introducing DNAsp, time spent creating reports has reduced considerably, and what used to take 4 hours a day can now be done in 10 minutes.” - Metfin Group Holdings Ltd.



Tricorn: DNAsp Customers

​An ambitious company, specialising in Commercial, Aluminium, Safety Equipment, Automotive and architectural anodising; Colour Anodising needed a replacement for their existing MRP system, to help them grow. According to Managing Director, Jonathon Buckley, "The implementation ensured no disruption of service, and now booking in is now 50% faster, jobs to production is 30% quicker, and we’ve seen a rise in customer satisfaction”
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​A growing company specialising in Powder Coating, Metafin supply some of the leading Automotive Manufacturers, and required a system that would provide greater visibility, accurate job costing, and more cohesive process control. We provided Metafin with DNAsp, and integrated advanced reporting, SFDC, and customer portal modules. This resulted in increased efficiency, improved productivity, and has seen them continue their growth.
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