Meccanica Baudano S.p.A.

Needs

Implementation 

They turned to MecMatica in 2011: at that time the company was starting to grow, so it was a critical moment. They needed to implement software that could help them sustain growth.

Over time, with the opening of a second plant, the training provided by MecMatica to new employees has been fundamental. In addition, customisations have been developed to make the new reality efficient at the development stage.

Results

Interview with Matteo Cardinale - Plant Manager

How was Meccanica Baudano born and what were the key points that characterized the company’s path?

Meccanica Baudano is a company that was founded 90 years ago, in 1935, as a small Italian mechanical craft. Then it was led over the years by three generations of family entrepreneurs, until becoming a joint stock company in 2022, thus achieving an excellent goal.

What makes your products unique and which technologies distinguish you?

The predominant part of the business is automatic turning, where we have two fairly developed factories. From a technological point of view, we have a machine park of 70 automatic lathes running in three shifts, 5 days per week. We have a variety of technologies, including for example the movable jockey for more precise parts, numerical controlled multi-spindles and numerical controlled bimspindles for complex geometries and medium-lotlarge; then we have mechanical multi spindles which are excellent and have a competitiveness on very large lots and simple geometries. This allows us to offer the customer the optimized cost and the most appropriate solution depending on the particular of the volumes. On the other hand, we have certifications and attention to quality and processes that allow us to have quality products. For example, we obviously have ISO 9000, we have IATF certification in the automotive sector and 14000 certification for environmental sustainability is underway. More generally we say that we maintain in any case, having been a organic growth of ours, a lean structure and a fairly lean mentality that allows us to react quickly to respond to customer problems to keep a competitive on costs.

When and for what needs did you turn to MecMatica?

We turned to MecMatica in 2011: it was a time when the company was starting to grow, therefore, a critical moment. We needed to implement better software that could help us sustain growth.

What solutions have you adopted from MecMatica and how have they helped to improve the operation?

The choice of Metronomo.Net was based mainly on specialization. The software is very focused, it is perfect for a company that makes mechanical production. In particular, we are an automatic lathe company that has in full all the processes of processing. One of the advantages during implementation was also the process of mutual adaptation between software and business processes. On the one hand the software has adapted to our processes, but on the other hand there was also the reverse process: the company has better formalized and structured its processes by adapting to the logic of the system and this was an advantage precisely because the system was specialized in our field.

Then, one of the things that we found very useful is the capillarity in the coverage of the modules of Metronomo.Net on the various departments and especially the interconnection between the various modules, the ability to move through shortcuts from one module to another and retrieve information quickly. This capillarity also gives the advantage of having a shared and uniform view of information within the company.

Finally, a powerful feature of Metronomo.Net is to be able to export from any screen the data available and visible at that time to carry out further analysis outside the system without necessarily requiring the intervention of MecMatica team for analysis or processing punctual and not frequent activities.

How did the MecMatica team support you in the post-delivery and installation phase of Metronomo.Net?

There have been moments, jumps in the company of which one was the implementation from scratch of a new plant that we call "number 2". At that moment MecMatica has certainly supported us with a training aimed at the new employees we have inserted for this plant and also with the development of targeted customizations and related to the new reality that we were implementing.

How does the collaboration continue today?

The collaboration is certainly continuing well. I believe that one of the reasons why it is easy in the report is precisely the presence of interpersonal relations between companies which is more difficult with other realities more focused on large structures to large companies.

How many people use Metronomo.Net in the company and how does it affect everyday life?

Basically all employees have access to Metronomo.Net, obviously some in consultation only, but many for the operational management of daily information. And this certainly, as I had already mentioned, provides everyone with the same information and vision of the state of processes and projects.

How will MecMatica support you in the future?

There are projects under study that we have listed in some meetings of analysis, obviously with different priorities, but we intend to continue implementing new features. One of the major chapters is the extension to the software quality department, for a more intensive use of Metronome than today, especially with the integration of metrological systems: In addition to having a flow of data in real time and also be able to record more precisely the contracts both at quality level, and cost.

Why would you recommend MecMatica Metronomo.Net?

I would say that for a company similar to ours, therefore of mechanical processing or in the turning in general, I think that MecMatica with the Metronomo.Net suite can offer a good solution because it combines strong software specialization with customized support for various needs.