Target audience
Industrial companies that manufacture safety-relevant components or assemblies. Traceability supports the digital traceability of components, serial numbers, production data and quality data. Barcode, RFID, BDE, MDE and MES-related data flows create transparency across manufacturing steps, inspections and relevant process information.
Challenge
Not only in the automotive environment, but also in medical and defence technology as well as in the plastics industry, the traceability of products and processes is becoming ever more important. Customers demand seamless documentation of when, by whom, on which machine and with which process parameters a component was manufactured.
Solution
Software solutions for traceability play a decisive role because they make it possible to track and document the entire lifecycle of a product. These solutions help ensure quality, facilitate recall actions and support legal requirements. Traceability is needed in the automotive industry (safety-relevant components), medical technology, the aerospace industry and the electronics industry. software4production GmbH offers a range of solutions and know-how for traceability. These include software solutions:
- Production planning (4AVO): can be integrated with existing ERP/PPS/inventory management systems, structured work planning, materials management, procurement and much more, serial/batch number management.
- Production scheduling (4APS): from graphical planning board and control station through to multi-resource planning taking a qualification matrix into account.
- Shop-floor data collection (4BDE): from RFID and barcode through to paperless booking via order backlog lists, not only in assembly but also in design/development, production planning or procurement.
- Machine data collection (4MDE): machines = utilisation/productivity ↑, downtimes/costs ↓
- Intralogistics control (4PRO): uniquely identify logistics objects and, from/into containers, through goods receipt/dispatch, picking, subcontracting, inventory and transport, produce in a serial/batch-consistent way.
In addition, we offer hardware solutions for the unique identification of objects via 1D/2D barcodes, RFID or laser.
Application example
Automated injection moulding machine with a camera system for OK/NOK inspection. Traceability through serial number generation, capture of injection moulding data via Euromap 77, PLC data as well as camera data and images, and transfer of these data to a private cloud.
Benefits
- Traceability ↑
- Transparency ↑
- Real-time information ↑
- Waste ↓
- Costs ↓