Product category:
Plantwide control
News Release from: Nematron Europe
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 December 2000
Shop floor systems linked to supply
chain software
Crossing the divide between business and the manufacturing processes is seamlessly achieved through the alliance of Nematron Europe and SSI with their award winning Tropos Dacs product
Crossing the much talked about 'great divide' between the business processes and the manufacturing processes is seamlessly achieved through the alliance of Nematron Europe and SSI with their award winning Tropos DACS product Tropos DACS offers a cohesive two way link between Shop floor systems, PLC's and discrete I/O with the Tropos supply chain product, offering a complete manufacturing solution, from the 'Top Floor to Shop Floor'
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tropos DACS consists primarily of three elements, SSI's Tropos Transaction layer, the Nematron PC Based Control Suite and Nematron Shopfloor Workstations.
The elements combine to collect real time data from the shop floor, analyse these data and then "fine tune" the manufacturing plant with the objective of improving enterprise performance.
Mr Trevor Lewis, Managing Director, SSI commented, "Through the optimisation of supply chain dynamics in relation to shop floor production capabilities, Tropos DACS offers manufacturing a refined methodology for collecting real time process information.
"Best of breed" Nematron hardware, Nematron PC Based Control software, and Tropos fully integrate into an organisation's business control system.
The collected data is appropriately correlated via the e-Solutions layer with QC, BoM, Sales and Procurement facets to ultimately deliver increased value and shorter lead times to customers." Phil Cooke, Nematron's UK Sales Manager added, " The impact of this integration will be realised across the supply chain, delivering increased predictability on delivery promise dates, while helping to control process yields, product quality and managing work-in-progress all of which have a significant and visible impact on a company's bottom line.".
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