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Other themes in this number:
A BIG YEAR DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED!
The new Compack 2 is on the edge. Pag.4.
New Nexus Power Mid. Pag.4.
The importance of a good inks tempera-ture. Pag.6.
The secret is in the Xtrem. Pag.6.
New group incorpo-rations. Pag.11.
SAP COMES TO COMEXINew systems for new times. Comexi adapts itself
to the new ERP.
2006 has supposed a veritable success for Comexi. We invite you to remember some of the best
moments of our company during this great year.
A good printing quality it’s ob-
tained with the control of all
the parameters. One of the most
important is the pressure and in
Comexi we show you the secret
of our success.
PRESSURES UNDER CONTROL
A NEW CONCEPT IN FLEXOGRAPHY IS BORNEvolution to Revolution gets his acquires his biggest meaning with the new Comexi development. A new
machine that will surprise you.
Núm. 1 - Year 1 February 2007 www.comexigroup.com
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Num. 2- year 3.
February 2007
www.comexi.com
Editor-In-Chief:
Ignacio Fernández
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Jordi Julià
Contributing editors:
Francesc Xavier Gómez
Tom Josep Maria Borrat
Graphic designer:
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Advertising and editon:
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Quarterly
A benign winter...
The summer beginning days are far away. Under a to-
rrid summer heat we were presenting the new EB prin-
ting technology in our facilities. More than 500 people
in our company. It still produces dizziness to me when
I remember it. I preserve a warm sensation that still to-
day covers my body, an agreeable sensation of recog-
nition of the well work done. Comexi Group with his
company Comexi as leader of the team, became strong
between the big manufacturers of the world printers
market. A challenge that we proposed to ourselves
near the summer end of 2001 and that today, in four
years foresight, seemed difficult to obtain.
But we don’t have complexes. Comexi Group has set
up as one of the most important machine manufac-
turers in our sector; innovative, creative and tenden-
cy makers, a new referent in the conversion industry
world.
Only one more difficult challenge rest: keep the lea-
dership position and to give satisfaction to all the new
customers that have trusted in us during our long
existence. A challenge that begins in 2007. A challenge
that I hope that we should share with all of you.
A benign winter… that presages a profitable spring.
Ignacio f. VidalCMX Newsletter Chief Editor
A great future ahead
First of all, my best whishes for this year 2.007 at all levels and afterward I make a balance of what has represented the year 2.006 for our company. The last year has been marked by an elevated activity level in all the companies of our Group. A record growth in their sales level that has been increased a 23% compared with the previous financial year 2.005. We would like to thank you to all our clients for the trust placed in us: this sales success is an encouragement for us, and the verification that the effort we are doing to give adequate replies to the needs of the flexible packaging converter market is having a good success on the side of our customers.Technology, innovation, competitiveness and services were the motors of the actions that we were implementing during the previous exercise. Our equipment models were presented in all the companies of the Comexi Group, in an effort to offer machinery with the biggest degree of technology and competitiveness; we were also investing in new develop-ments, as the new process of flexographic printing with electron Beam curing, that we presented in our plant with the assistance of 500 visitors of the sector. This has not been the last development in which we have been investing: we have been also working in an innovating and revolutionary process for the application of special effects in the flexible packaging, in new technologies of lamination, slitting, environmental solution... all this with the idea to be able to offer new and better solutions to our customers’ challenges in which it is found the flexible packaging sector, making common cause to the globalization phenomenon, cost of raw materials and needs of adaptation to the accelerates changes of the consumption market.
All this innovating effort in product and technology has been complemented with other in different areas: it has been implemented the Project Management, an organizing model much more suitable to our type of product and process, it has been initiated the change to SAP as computing system, theme which is dealt more profoundly in the interview with Tomas Marcos which you will find in the back cover of this WWN…All these projects are related with the essential change and organizing improvement that we should approach with the purpose of adapting our organization to the always growing demand of our present surroundings.
And if 2.006 has been a year of accelerated activity, the present, 2.007, promises not to be behind it; on the contrary; in this moment we can state that we will register a new record growth and that our innovation, development and organizing improvement teams are working in a frenetic rate; we will go into details about all these projects that we are developing in the following issues of this WWN.
We hope, with WWN, to achieve the goal of spreading out a communication bridge with all of you, in order to inform you about all we are doing in order to improve the added value that we can contribute with our customers.
Thank you very much for the attention that you are giving to this issue and see you soon.
Manel Xifra PagèsExecutive chairman
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The EB application to the FW model has created a machine that
will become a new standard in the flexographic printing market
during the next years thanks to its revolutionary features.
The advantages of the FW Hybrid EB have opened a complete
new world of opportunities to us. Thanks to the great effort made
by the technician and Innovation teams it’s possible to dream
from now on with a machine that it’s able to dry the ink without
VOC’s generation (Volatile Organic Components) and with a per-
fect dot definition. A machine that has reduced his energy and ink
consumption by 50% and it’s able to get 96% of colour spectrum
without ink change with the heptachromy colour separation.
The EB + heat combination in drying will allow us to act in all the-
se works that have an enormous difficulty to be done and get the
advantages of each one of these technologies to develop
strong solutions that were unimaginable years ago.
But this is only the beginning, since the new FW Hybrid EB
model it’s ready to get perfect prints, where we will comple-
tely avoid the dot gain and where inks with a high abrasion
resistance are used to allow several coating savings that
bring up enormous problems in the actual works.
EB + HEAT PROCESS (Hybrid) WILL ALLOW US TO OB-
TAIN BENEFITS OF THE BEST OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES
TO GET THE BEST RESULTS IN OUR WORKS.
All this comes with a quality printing close to offset techno-
logy, fact that let to position our product as one of the most
quality products in the
printing market and
in the flexible packa-
ging world.
The drying elimina-
tion between colours
in the EB cold process
has allowed deve-
loping an optimum
and more profitable
machine that gets an
incredible accuracy
Comexi finds out a new world of opportunities with the new
FW Hybrid EB developmentThe new adaptation of Comexi most successful model during the latest time to the technology with a higher projection in the next years it’s here. Present and future are mixed to offer that it will be one revolution in the market. The new FW Hybrid EB it’s right here.
in register and, at the same time, a safer process for the
worker, more economic for our works and much more
respectful with the environment.
EB inks using allows getting more colour density with
only one anilox set. With this we can assure that all the
plates with 60, 70 and 80 lines won’t be a problem for
our works.
The evolution of our FW to the EB has successfully con-
cluded and we have got a model that’s able to surprise
even the expert printers worldwide, due to its enormous
adaptation capacity (EB+ heat) will allow the best results
that we never have imagined to all the printers. In con-
clusion, a new world of opportunities at our disposition.
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Proslit is growing. Growing in expectation, in markets, in segments, in activities. Growing to
attend all customer demands. With only two years of life, PROSLIT has reached a leadership
position among the most well known companies. Promoting always the most innovative
technologies. Leading the new technological and quality standards of every segment.
A small machine with leader solutions and performances. 500 mts/min slitting velocity. ALTS
system (constant lineal guide of the rewinding pressure), circular or interchangeable blades
slit systems with core positioning by laser, reels intake up to 1000mm with an optional elec-
tric pick up and double shaft with a maximum diameter of 600 mm. A completely electrical
machine to get the most demanding requirements. Know more about it, visit www.comexi-
group.com or ask for our brochure to any of our agents.
smallisbeautifulThe new NEXUSCOMEXI and its new NEXUS POWER MID We start a new year and Comexi Group has several novelties to show. First of all we receive a new company in the group: Nexus Comexi, that appears inside our group strategy focused on creating compa-nies that could share its technologies and know-how and to get sy-nergies inside the converting world.
Nexus start its own way announcing the release of a new POWER range machine: The POWER
MID. A new solventless laminator concept with a 55 mm wide reinforced frame; R1 R2, R4 and R5
reels of 220 mm diameter and with sleeve changing in the applicator reel incorporated in the
machine.
Besides, it shares the machine configuration with the successful and powerful
NEXUS POWER, having an integrated dispenser-applicator group.
One of the other new characteristics is the capacity to resist
tensions until 70 kg in rewinder and 60 kg in unwinder, the
possibility to work with the R3 with reel or the option to
dispose the pre-conditioning cover in the secondary
unwinder.
The electric part also has been improved, getting
a new velocity of 450 mts/min. POWER MID incor-
porates a new production system named PRO-
DAT (system that gets the FMDA normative) and
it will be able soon for the rest of Nexus range.
To know more details about this new model and for
the whole product range, look up in www.comexi.
com or contact with our representative in the area.
Congratulations Nexus Comexi!
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The adjustment and setting of the printing pressures is one of the most important issues in any printing job. Presco solve this problem by automatically and simultaneously setting plate and anilox pressure of all color stations at the beginning of each job. This drives down the time and material required for set-up.
How it worksWith just one click, Presco automatically adjusts and fine-tunes the pressureof anilox and plate cylinders for all colors (up to 10) at once. It uses the existing cameraof the Automatic Inspection System to measure the initial pres-sure, whilesophisticated software analyzes the image and sends corrections to the press.
Fast and simpleUsing Presco is extremely simple and straig-htforward. Setup takes about 30 secondsand can be done off-line (without the press run-ning). Once the press starts to run,just press a button and “go”.
Automatic and consistent pressurePresco ensures repeatable pressure accuracy through the use of micro-dottarget technology, ensuring excellent results every time. This enables the analysisof plate and anilox cylinder positions to further reduce set-up time.Presco provides highly accurate pressure con-
trol, for every job type and every shift,regardless of the number of colors or operator skills.Dramatic cost savings due to time and waste re-ductionPress control technology quickly and accurately achieves optimal presssettings, using innovative, parallel setting of all cylin-der pressures. For a typical10 color job, Presco reduces your set-up time and cuts your waste by up to 70%!These dramatic cost savings ensure a very fast ROI (Return on Investment).
PrescoThe automatic pressure control setting
Comexi and AVT have developed Presco. The new system to get the most profitable setting in our press machine. The best technologies are now together.
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One of the most remarkable quality problems in one flexographic print is when we try to repeat the same colour and ink density of the previous work, besides to maintain the colour and density obtained during all the work, from the first to the last meter.
Factors as the formulation of the own ink colour, ink pigment concentration respect to the solvent part or the state of the anilox reels can affect us, but one of the most important and unknowed problems for the printer is, as a matter of fact, the ink tempe-rature.
Flexo inks have a different behaviour according to the temperature utilization, we would be able to summarize it in only one sentence: with a smaller temperature, greater viscosity and with a greater temperature, smaller viscosity.
This behaviour is produced without solvents contribution, only with the variation of the environmen-tally temperatures.
A cold ink (less than 18ºC) tends to flow a little and the anilox reel cell download will be deficient or not so good. We can consider this fact as a not very important
problem due to when we’ll start the work the ink will tend to rise for the fric-tion among the reel and the doctor blade chamber. On the other hand, a
high temperature is something that must worry us, because different phenomenons can appear when the temperature is increasing.
How does affect the ink temperature increase to our work?
The first consequence is the inks drying acceleration over the cliché. Due to the fast evaporation of the sol-
vent part before to place the ink over the substrate, we must use delaying elements or printing with
less velocity to avoid totally ink drying. In any case, with these delaying elements we limit the
printing velocity and we spend more energy to dry.
Also it evaporates faster the solvent parts and, in a differentiated way, acetates have a high evaporation coefficient in front of the ethyl alcohol. In this case, all the inks that are exposed to high temperatures will suffer quickly for acetates lack.
At the last we find the humidity problem, the more unknowed problem but not the less important because it’s so damaging for the inks performances. It causes fast resin deterioration and, at the same time, it causes colour changes and dirty clichés.
The solution to all these problems passes for refrigerating the inks maintaining them at 20ºC. We’ll obtain a low evaporation velocity during the ink circulation among the doctor blade to the substrate, because it will be evaporated later and very quickly when we heat the substrate in the airbox screens, at the same time, this evaporation could be done when the material touches the central drum at 30ºC. Because of we don’t need delaying elements, the solvents and inks can be formulated for a fast dry.
Ink temperature in FlexographyTo obtain an optimum printing in Flexography depends on many and different factors. The ink temperature is one of them and in Comexi, conscio-us about this fact, we study and collaborate with the best professionals to obtain the best Know-how.
EB technology bases part of its develop-
ment on a specific inks formulation that allows
the effectively of the electrons curing.
The composition of these new inks cured by EB changes
a lot compared with the typical solvent or waterbase inks
composition that flexo usually uses, fact that supposes a new
challenge in the moment to integrate these inks into the com-
plex EB printing process development.
Enviroxi, a Comexi Group company leader in machine peripherals,
has developed XTREM, a new ink recirculation system that allows to
treat all the EB curing inks as the most effective form.
The system obtains a soft, regular and adaptable delivery of the ink
without froth or gaps, fact that let to assure an ideal quality in our prin-
ting results.
The secret is in the XTREM.
XTREM: The secret is in the ink
Inks circulation system. From selfcleaning to the substrate.
Beneficios de una temperatura de tinta óptima.• Higher printing velocities.• Less dry energy consumption.• Less solvent consumption, cold solvent has more resistance to evaporation.• Less machine stops to clean the cliché. The clichés will increase its durability if we clean it less.• Works with cleaner and more evenness colours.
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The project technical officers presentation finished with the press
machine and the electron cure system working at all his capability,
showing all its capacity and proving that EB is a future technology
thought for the tomorrow but available since today.
The quality of the samples, handed out at the final of impression
to all the visitors, was the culmination of one
presentation that was able to pro-
ve that the EB technology
irruption will com-
pletely change, in
a little time, the
flexographic im
pression concept.
Likewise, Co-
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showed all his productivity capacity how a
businesses Group and organized a guided tour around all his fa-
cilities, where we could notice that the company can offer an inte-
THE EB APPEARS TO THE WORLD
grated service in the converting world.
First of all, the attendants could observe all the Nexus Co-
mexi laminators range and witness the characteristics and
the working of the EVO and DUAL models.
Later, the whole group moved towards to enclosed factory
to see all the improvements and innovations that Pros-
lit had developed for the Open House in the cutting and
rewinding shields.
When the finishing, Comexi invited all the assistants
to visit one of the areas in which he has been built
the Comexi success throughout his more than 50
years, the Fundition and the mechanized of pieces.
At the end, the buses toke the group to the Fornells Park
restaurant to celebrate the meeting success and to be
thankul, from the direction of all involved companies in
the project, the presence of all the professionals who met
in the event.
Sometimes the reality overcomes the fiction and Comexi,
together with SunChemical and ESI, has demonstrated that
The flexographic world it’s in luck. Comexi and its eagerness of innovation they have carried us to the EB world presentation because of Wetflex Open House 2006, as could not be of another form, was a complete success.More than 600 professionals of the sector going through all the facilities located in Riudellots de la Selva between the 29 may and 1 of June to know and to check all the particularities and numerous advantages that has to offer the electron cure technology to the flexographic world.All the commercial team of Comexi Group and an extensive representation of the involved comanies in the project, Sunchemical and ESI, were on charge to go deeply in the development and the operation of the EB processes on Comexi FW 1508 press
the tomorrow calls to our doors with great new features
to offer us.
MORE THAN 600 PROFESSIONALS WERE WITNESS OF THE LATEST INNOVATIONS MADE BY COMEXI
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Comexi North America delegation had been present in an event that has get
an important space in the thick world wide fairs calendar.
Here we are again. Conquering the USA. Colo-
urs, flags, big cars, fully of incredible buildings
creating their skyline. Chicago is different, uni-
que. Just behind the Graet Lakes, the windy
city as they call it grows with their amazing
modern glass towers as SEARS tower mixed
with the ancient few buildings belonging to
the old city (the ones that survive to the fire
that destroyed the city two centuries ago).
In the middle of these scenery, appears the
McCormick place fair building, a black jewel
considered one of the best fair places placed
in North America. A meeting point for conver-
ters, celebrating togheter CPP and EXPO PACK
that becomes the most important week for
Chicago hosted CPP and Comexi Group didn’t miss it
One more year all the Comexi Agents that are placed all over the world had the pos-
sibility to meet and interrelate each other at the same meeting point.
Comexi celebrated its habitual Agents Meeting with the finality to make a balance
about what it had been a great year and let to know to all his agents what are the
innovations and new business plans for the next financial year.
All the agents were participants in two intensive working days where treated ampli-
tude of themes as a business strategy approach, sales analysis or creative meetings
developments.
Each one of the companies that conform Comexi Group had the possibility to talk to
all the group of assistants, that didn’t doubt in clarifying all their enquires to take the
maximum advantage of these workdays.
The appraisal at the end of the encounter was totally positive, the direction was sa-
tisfied with the information that could be compiled and delivered and the agents
thanked enormously the
hospitality treatment and
the validity of the arguments
received during different ex-
positions.
Comexi Group’s commercial
family continues growing
day after day. Each Agents
Meeting edition becomes
a greater success, fact that
undoubtedly ratifies that Co-
mexi is in the correct way.
Agents Meeting continues growing year after year Once a year Comexi facilities located in Riudellots de la Selva host all the commercial team to analyze the results and to show all the new tendencies that will mark the nearest future of Comexi Group.flexible packaging that is celebrated in USA.
Comexi Group is participating in that amazing
event through our subsidiary COMEXI North
America, Inc. From 29th of October to 2nd of No-
vember, more than 2000 exhibitors come there
with their latest novelties. Comexi will be ready
with their “hospitality booth”, happy to share con-
versations with their customers and show them
the latest new products incorporated in our pro-
duct range (FW 2110, Xtrac system, new NEXUS
FUTURA laminator or the new slitter PROSLIT
COMPACK2) and be open to hear about the new
challenges that our customers are asking for.
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COMEXI GROUP AT ICE 2007
Proslit, our slitter and rewinding spe-
cialized company, will show there its
new compact design, the PROSLIT
COMPACK2 model, which destiny is to
be the leader of the little and medium
size companies.
NEXUSCOMEXI will show its novelties
on lamination land in its new company
project, and COMEXI printing will con-
tinue advancing the new specs of its
new 2007 flexo presses series (FI and
FW) adding the newest trends (Xtrac,
VXtrac, Presco, Safety layout or the EB
printing procedure, and many more)
in order to keep the leadership of the-
se competitive market.
The best opportunity to know more
about the most recognized solutions
of converting world. Don’t lose the
opportunity.
Comexi will be in ICE 2007 in collaboration with our agent on the area, Harris & Bruno. We will develop a hospitality booth to create a meeting place of our customers and potentials, in order to present them our newest ideas and developments as well as our new guidelines for 2007.
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As machine-makers one of our greater concerns is the equipment optimization to make the production of our machines more profitable. We con-sider that this profit value should be based on the study of the unproductive times o stopped machine, and not only in a single superficial fact how can be the print velocity.
Good change times, the base of a great productivity
We are conscious that the works are shorter day by day, fact that causes a greater number of changes in a current working day. Contrasting the results obtained with several of our customers with the same machine model and similar type orders and meters per job, we got surprised with the variations from 30% to 70% of unproductive times between jobs, fact that seemed totally illo-
gical with these very similar ma-chines.
Jobs typolo-gy is changing and this affects directly our productivity
In a second vi-sit to the two most significant costumers, we analyzed every step and opera-tors movements when they ca-rried out a work change; we must take into account that in both cases the changes were be done by the same operators number, two for each machine.
Conclusions were very clear and forceful, being the organization and the work systematic the most important factors.
In the company with less unproductive times, we could verify that the operator got ready all the job information and neces-sary documentation before the end of the job in process, fact that allowed the worker to prepare all the necessary material to develop the next job, without need to make any enquiry neither to expect orders.
He got some elements as reels and inks without ask for. When they finished the job and stopped the machine the worker alrea-dy had the cliches cart with all the assembled plates for the next job, at the same time he also had a whole tray set, ink pumps and cleaned hoses of the colours that should be changed because of the colours variation between the jobs.
While he was finishing the last reel, his assistant or the second operator had already set up the material and the adjustments for the next job. Talking with the technical staff of this company, we discovered that they had been studying the problematic of chan-ging times and they had developed a very detailed document of each one of the operations and sequences to be developed for each operator in the process, in order to get clearly functions for each operator. Also it was perfectly planned the carry out opera-tions order for each one of them, individually and combined in order to be not interfered.
The organization of change processes can increase our pro-ductivity enormously
In the other analyzed company, work changes were made by intuitive factors, since the operator had a lot of experience and during all his life had been making the changes with this system,
without anybody indicated him that it could be done with other more productive ways. Even he set up the plates for the next job himself and cleaned the trays and ink chambers with the machine stopped.
In these two analyzed cases, considered as two different metho-dologies, there was an average difference of three hours in chan-ge times. If we analyze on averages, since the data varied in each work, all the works controlled were carried out with the same ani-lox, without variation of line model or order.
Another point that affects directly the productivity and the machi-ne life is the maintenance. Our machines are designed to be able to make a prevent maintenance without the necessity to dispose of sophisticate human and technical resources.
We always should consider that prevent is more profitable than to cure.Don’t doubt in analyzing your case, in Comexi are worried about your productivity and our objective is to be next to our customers to assess them in all and each one of the steps.
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In January 10th took place the first COMMUNICATE awards drawing. This innova-
tive project it’s based in a new data application that allows to all the staff that is
working in the Riudellots de la Selva facilities to suggest or propose new ideas.
These ideas are faced to improve any company aspect, and are especially focused
about all the referenced with our new Management Integrated System, that at the
present comprise 4 systems (Quality, Environment, Safety and R&D).
Ideas and new suggestions have been submitted to a whole evaluation process
made by our internal auditors or by the Innovation Committee. Following this me-
thodology we present the prize to the best idea, based in a weekend trip for two
people at one European city, which was given to Carles Grau, the person in charge
of coordinating the Technical Mechanical Office.
At the same time a drawing among the other participants will offer the possibility
to Juan José Delgado, prismatic pieces mechanic operator,
to enjoy with another weekend for two people
in Andorra.
The draw will be done every 3
months and is already open
a new opportunity for all
our workers to tell all their
ideas and suggestions be-
fore the next raffle.
In the next edition of our
CMX Worldwide Newsletter
we’ll know the name of the win-
ners. Don’t miss it!
Communicate! NEW INCORPORATIONS FOR NEW CHALLENGES
The effort and the good work carried out by David Morera during the last years have led him to tur-
ning in the new Area Manager of Comexi Group for the majority of the Latin America zone.
After several years knowing and familiarizing with this area under the charge of Technical Commer-
cial, David will have now the possibility to grow professionally and to demonstrate his knowledge of
this market in continual expansion. His mission as Area Manager will be to promote the selling of all
the group products included Comexi do Brazil. His principal challenge will be to increase the zone
selling and to consolidate the existing clients in a chan-
geable situation of market. Also, it will have the aim to
motivate, personally and professionally, the whole group
of representatives who collaborate with us in the zone.
We are sure that his big dedication, effort and efficacy in
his work will manage this issue to make the Latin-Ame-
rican zone one of the most favourable areas for the Co-
mexi Group business development.
Comexi Group wants to make a continuous adaptation to the dynamic market changes and for it
is necessary to be provided with a whole professional team capable of managing new and exciting
challenges.
With this purpose, the commercial team has been provided with two new incorporations. The first
one of them is Víctor Funosas, who from the end of 2006 has been added to the
commercial family of Comexi with the charge of commercial technician inside
the east and south european market .The second incor-
poration is Yang Su, commercial Technician of NexusCo-
mexi and Area Manager of Comexi Group on key Asian
markets with a big expansion.
Both come with the illusion of the person who wants to
grow professionally in his work and Comexi will give to
them the possibility of reaching their goals and, in turn,
helping the group to be stronger on a global scale. Wel-
come!
A NEW CHALLENGE FOR DAVID MORERA
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Email: [email protected]
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The adaptation to the changeable scenes is not an easy task for
any company and in Comexi Group, conscious about this fact, we
are implanting a new ERP system.
We speak with Tomas Marcos, an industrial technical engineer with
more than 20 years of experience in Comexi Group. Nowadays
he’s leading the new SAP project implementation.
1. Which has been your trajectory in Comexi?I take approximately 24 years being employed at Comexi and I
have lived very closely the constant evolution of the company. I
was taking different issues inside the manufacturing area as me-
thods, mechanization management or planning, up to coming to
the operations direction.
Now, and due to the SAP project, the direction has decided to
destine my experience to the implantation of the new informa-
tion system.
2. Which will be the order and the application calendar for the SAP in Comexi?
We have chosen a gradual implementation to avoid pro-
blems, and in these moments we already have set in mo-
tion the financial module and with the forecast to get
the definitive change in the whole logistic module in the
middle of the year.
At the beginning of 2008 we will dedicate all our efforts
in implementing the advanced planning and the Business
Intelligence, which will provide us with the best manage-
ment tools.
With the purpose to get the most of the synergies inside
the group, we will take the Comexi SAU implementation to
initiate it also in Nexus Comexi. We expect that we will be
able to implement this new system to all the companies of
the group at the end of this year.
3. What progress will suppose this new plan for the company?Principally the solid integration of the system that goes
from the commercial offer up to the after-sales service, in-
cluding all the management modules.
Also, it will facilitate the communication with our costu-
mers, providers and group of companies. The system will
extend our possibilities in databases creation at the group
level, to create Internet portals for our clients and provi-
ders, etc. We are going to speak the same language.
4. What difficulties will the company find with this imple-
mentation?
It is clear that we will have risks and problems based on
the proper change more than in the complexity of the new
technology, although the people are working with a lot
of illusion and dedication and all the people understand
that it is a process that suppose an important part of the
company future.
5. Which will be the most difficult moment?It is difficult to say, but we might emphasize prototypes
tests, where we must make sure that we implement
what we want; also the migration plan that must gui-
de us in the information migration between systems
without causing ruptures; and finally, the starter process
with the final users.
6. How many people are involved in these moments in the project?For a company with limited resources and where every-
body has tasks assigned in the productive process, we
can say that we have so many people dedicated. There
are collaborating the internal consultants who must ac-
quire the Know How, the different final users of all the
areas represented in the process, the people of informa-
tion systems, our implantation partner and finally, all the
final users, who really will validate the work done.
7. What are you expecting with this project?At professional level, to achieve that Comexi has the
best system of information that allows to reach its stra-
tegic targets, and at personal level, to use this process
to extend and to improve my knowledge in industrial
processes and in changes management.
MOVING FORWARD TO THE NEW SAP
