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'Black box' monitors film production.


An unusually compact workstation for shop-floor production reporting in blown and cast film film plants is new from PlastiSoft Corp., Toronto. Its new Shop Floor Data Collection Workstation consists of a single enclosure enclosure (inclosure) n. land bounded by a fence, wall, hedge, ditch or other physical evidence of boundary. Unfortunately, too often these creations are not included among the actual legally-described boundaries and cause legal problems.


ENCLOSURE.
 (16 x 24 x 18 in.) containing a mini touchscreen See touch screen.  PC, barcode label printer, label tray, and barcode scanner See bar code scanner. . Operators input production data at the touchscreen, such as job, recipe, time spent, materials used, and scrap amounts. The workstation prints barcoded shipping labels and generates job costs. The new unit is intended to work with PlastiSoft's Tori-Flex ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  software but can be used independently too. Tel: (905) 760-0100 * PT Direct: 735XZ
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH EXTRUSION
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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