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Software for Manufacturing
even collaborate with an extended supply chain that includes customers, partners and suppliers. Users can accommodate transactions that span multiple companies and automatically distribute work across two or more companies and/or divisions, reducing costs and eliminating errors and time. They also can consolidate informa- tion from separate companies and/or divisions or global locations to enable them to cost-effectively manage multiple companies and achieve comprehensive reporting on multiple business entities.
or standard text files, on the network and they can be imported directly into MIE Trak Pro.
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system and send it directly to the machine- mounted ShopFloorConnect Interface (SMI) controller. The end result is paper- less management of the production sched- ule. As jobs finish, the API gives ShopFloor- Connect the ability to report part counts back to the ERP/MES in real time.
The enhancement comes on the heels of another recent upgrade—MIE File Reader, an advanced file-conversion capability that enables MIE Trak Pro to take PDF purchase-order files from a customer, parse the order into its relevant pieces of information and automatically convert them into sales orders. And, the ability to process files is not limited to PDFs. Users can drop any consistent file from a customer, including PDF, Excel, CSV
Wintriss Controls Group has introduced a new data-sharing capability for its ShopFloorConnect software for tracking overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and downtime. The new application pro- gram interface (API) is a SOAP 1.2-based web service that automates job-queue management and data transfer between the scheduling functions of existing ERP/MES software and the ShopFloor- Connect software/hardware. It allows ShopFloorConnect to gather information for the next job from the existing scheduling
ShopFloorConnect is a turnkey solution that is scalable, flexible and can be quick- ly implemented into any discrete manu- facturing environment. It comes factory-con- figured to communicate directly over your LAN with the ShopFloorConnect machine interface, which can be installed on any machine.
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Web Service Enables Simple Sharing of Job Information with ERP and MES Software
ShopFloorConnect displays real-time status information for all of your machines on a PC or on a mobile-device web brows- er. It automatically generates and delivers reports showing OEE, production, downtime summaries and other information, and provides the vital link to real-time data miss- ing from some ERP and MES systems.
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