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ROTECNAWORLD NUMBER THIRTY TRHEE 2018 SUMMARY TECHNOLOGY SILOMETRIC, CONTROL OF THE CONTENT OF SILOS IN REAL TIME TECHNOLOGY SUBMERSIBLE AGITATOR GENERATES STRONGER CURRENTS ROTECNANEWS SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT PIGPRODUCTION LETTER FROMTHEEDITOR JAPAN, THE WORLD’S At this beginning of the year, the trend in the pork market is the same as in the LEADING IMPORTER last weeks of 2017: record weights with intense activity in the slaughterhouses OF PIG MEAT and downward prices. The sector expects to recover its stability and good sensations soon. SOMETHINGABOUT However, in 2017, from the point of view of production, the sector registered its best figures and successfully undertook the challenges it faced. Among these, it THE SARDANA, Gener Romeu addressed the problem of antibiotic resistance, a task the sector has faced with THE CATALAN Rotecna's President professionalism and involvement, although in some countries of the European Union there is still a long way to go. Nutrition, vaccines and extreme biosecurity NATIONAL DANCE measures in the installations are the tools available to the sector to achieve “zero ROTECNA WORLD 33 consumption” of antibiotics. JANUARY 2018 SCAN ME ROTECNA In the business field, in Rotecna we are expanding our field of activity. On this WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE EDITION: ROTECNA, S.A.- POL. IND. NAU-3, occasion, we present the SiloMetric, an innovative product to measure the DOWNLOAD ANY 25310 AGRAMUNT (LLEIDA) SPAIN amount of feed in the silos in real time through any electronic device. We also DIRECTOR: highlight the advantages of the TecnaPur submersible agitator, with an exclusive APPS FOR READER GENER ROMEU pointed-finished design that makes it more efficient at homogenising slurry in QR CODE & VIEW EDITOR: TAMARA LOMBARDO the ponds. ROTECNA.COM PRODUCTION: DAVID MERCADO In conclusion, we are leaving behind a good business year, and one in which the TRADUCTION: CHRIS BOSWELL sector saw Spain established itself as the country with the largest pig population in Europe. With the expectation that the sector will continue to grow and will PRINT: IMPRENTA BARNOLA do so by betting on innovative, sustainable and efficient equipment, our L-41-2007 commitment is to continue working to provide farmers with this equipment. This year, in addition, we have an unmissable event for us, EuroTier 2018 (from 13th DIGITAL VERSION to 16th November), the great showcase for the European and international / issuu.com/rotecnapress livestock sector. Rotecna's World's editors accept no liability for contributor's opinion. Gener Romeu ROTECNANEWS SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT PROFILE: · Year the department was created: 2007 · Number of employees: 3 · Number of users of the ERP: 60 users. The Systems Department was created in 2007 with the objective of launching the ERP (a computerized Enterprise Resource Planning system), which would combine all the information generated by the different sections of Rotecna and improve the internal functioning of the company. From its introduction, the purpose of the department has been to administer this information and create the tools necessary for the company to carry out its activity Pascual Serrano and Jordi Benet make up the Systems Department together with the computer scientist Jordi Lanchas. Photo: RotecnaPress. as efficiently as possible. At the same time, from the Systems department, the entire IT infrastructure At the moment, the Systems Department is working to implement the CRM, a tool for integral of the company is managed: servers, computers, backups, antivirus systems, management of all the information that is generated around the commercial activity. and so on. SOMETHINGABOUT... THE SARDANA, THE CATALAN NATIONAL DANCE ancient Greece, where dances in a ring and MUSIC AND holding hands were commonplace, as is apparent from some of the sculptural and DANCE IN A artistic depictions of the time. Subsequently, these dances were adapted by Iberian CIRCLE MADE UP peoples and danced on the shores of the OF MEN AND Mediterranean, creating choreographic and instrumental differences. In the search WOMEN for its origins, the etymology of the word sardana has also been studied, and it has been related to the Latin word “Cerretana”, which was the name of the modern-day Cerdanya district in Pyrenees of Girona province. However, it was not until the 16th century that term sardana appeared referring specifically to a dance. It was applied to one that was danced in a rhythmic form, People dancing a sardana in a competition. but without more details. In the 19th century, the sardana was mentioned as a The ‘sardana’ The origins dance in the Empordà, Roussillon and La Selva (Girona). It was derived from the The sardana is considered the national dance of The sardana as we know it today dates back to the counterpass and the short sardana, two Catalonia. A collective dance with men and women middle of the 19th century. Its origin is unknown. dances of the time. So, the origin of the holding hands in a circle and facing inward. It is According to some authors, the ring, the way of sardana as we know it today must be danced by tapping the feet to the beat of the music dancing and the holding of hands denote an antiquity related to the evolution and consequent played by the cobla (the group of musicians who play that can be traced back to Roman times. That is why disappearance in the mid-19th century of for the sardana). there are so many legends that set its origins in the counterpass, a typical dance of the 2 ROTECNANEWS Systems Department: IT and IS and in its dispatch, as the stock and The department’s work is divided into location of all material was two parts: IT (information technology) computerised. and IS (information and services). The first is the most technical part, From here, improvements and and refers to the company’s entire modifications were made to the ERP, computer infrastructure. The section based on the demands of customers, is responsible for ensuring the until 2016, when another qualitative security and integrity of the network, leap was made and the production equipment and data. The part of IS is control programme was installed the one of services, the one that with terminals on all the injection administers the ERP, develops machines. This programme allows applications to access the you to check in real time the status of information, facilitates the analysis all the machines in the company, the of data and resolves the incidents items being produced, the time and daily queries that arise among remaining in production, the number the users of the ERP, who number of pieces produced, and so on. And, about 60 in Rotecna. in situ, the terminals enable the information regarding each machine Great milestones to be consulted. In 2007, the company created the The last major changes occurred in Systems Department and ERP 2017. On the one hand, in March, as The production control programme with screens on the machines was launched in 2016. Photo: RotecnaPress. software came into operation. It was required by the ISO 9001 Quality initially used only as a billing tool. Regulations, the batch work system was implemented. This ensures the provides greater security, allows the that is generated around the In 2009, it is decided to go a step traceability of the products by synchronisation of devices and the commercial activity.The CRM will be further. The version of ERP was registering all production and sharing of calendars, and manages another great qualitative leap, and updated and there was investment in distribution processes, and implies and/or reserves meeting rooms, will facilitate especially the work of new programmes to improve the the application of the FIFO (first in, among other functions. the sales staff, who will have access supply of material to the factory and first out) system, which prioritises to all information regarding their the preparation of orders for the departure of the material that CRM clients on their visits: status of their customers through Wi-Fi readers. entered first. orders, invoicing, possible incidents, This was a great change in the way On the other hand, the Internet At the moment, the Systems etc.In addition, in the field of Rotecna worked, and, at the same connection was changed to fibre Department is working to implement marketing, the new system will allow time, a very important qualitative optics and the mail system was the CRM, a tool for integral more accurate profiles to be made of leap in the location of all the material migrated to MS Exchange, which management of all the information clients and increase their efficiency. THE SARDANA, THE CATALAN NATIONAL DANCE Empordà and Pyrenean regions of dancers dance to the right and left in the province of Girona, danced in a a few specific steps, with an air that chain or semicircle, where the dancers is often slow and sometimes more showed the social hierarchy in the lively. The people in the ring should town squares. On the other hand, the preferably be pairs of men and short sardanas were danced at the women. It is a non-exclusive dance, end of the counterpass with the so that anyone can join the circle participation of many more people. individually or in pairs at any time in With the passage of time, the the dance, unless it is a contest or an counterpass was displaced by the exhibition. sardanas, which gained popularity among the young, then it evolved The ‘cobla’ into its present form. The cobla is the name given to the The dance group that plays the music for the sardana. It is made up of 12 The sardana has two main steps, instruments played by 11 musicians. called short and long, and the Its origins go back to an old formation succession of these equal steps is called tres quartants (three quarters) A cobla in a concert.