Concrete Plant Control Systems

Complete production management system

LIADSOFT is a management system that controls the entire production procedure for ready-mix concrete producers, including raw material suppliers, quarries, order entry, dispatching, invoicing and mix design formulation by controlling all activities from the main office. It is a multi-computer, multi-location system that can run on a single station for small plants or many stations for large operations. Its extreme ease of use and flexibility allows screens and reports to be modified by the user to suit his needs.

Don't modify your business to suit the software - run your business the way you want; LIADSOFT software adjusts itself to fit your needs.

LIADSOFT is already in use in dozens of ready-mix operations, large and small.

LIADSOFT helps you to compete profitably in a business with ever decreasing margins by:

• More accurately calculating product margins based on true material costs.
• Giving superior service by automatically establishing priorities for the dispatcher and the batcher.
• Adding to the invoice all the small extra charge items that tend to be overlooked, such as extra admixtures, slump variations etc.
• Providing better quality product through modified mix design formulations.
• Giving you total control of your business.
• Automatic recalculation of hauling prices according to fuel cost changes.

LIADSOFT offers a complete solution from one source, eliminating the incompatibilities that occur in other products, which combine software programs from several different companies. You can be assured that features which you do not need right away will be available when you need them; they are built into the total solution.

LIADSOFT provides automation to the enterprise level and to operating sites. The total solution is divided neatly into two broad categories:

1. LIADSOFT – those applications that support the business as a whole across multiple operating plants. These applications run centrally and regionally to manage the enterprise. The applications include dispatching, customer service, mixtures management, accounting, billing, accounts receivable, etc. These are discussed in detail in the remainder of this document.
2. Concrete Site Automation – those applications and control devices that are needed to run the concrete plant. These applications support the direct operation of the plant and include the batch panel, batch panel interfaces and local dispatching.

Main Features:

• The only true Distributed system.
• Embedded Query & report generators.
• Industry standard SQL database.
• One integrated solution for all your management needs.
• Simple & easy to use human interface.
• Multi lingual (including right to left languages like Arabic & Hebrew).

Data mining:
Time is money. To make the right decisions, accurate information is required and fast. With the query generator, the end user can immediately build any report needed for decision making. Any query can be transferred to a Microsoft Excel form for graphic presentation, or can be evaluated with the built in pivot table facility.

Pivot Tables or Decision Cubes are a method of summarizing the data display in different ways, in order to present the data in such a way as to bring out important trends.

"Pivot Tables" is a term used in Microsoft Excel to describe the procedure shown above. Although you see three simple presentations here, with no apparent gain in understanding, the principle is to gain better understanding in more complex situations, in order to help in making decisions.