Know what's happening. (WIP).Production monitoring is handled by one software package. Quality tracking by another. And part tracking by still another. Consequently, you're likely to hove three different reporting formats that you hove to reconcile. It's better than nothing, but... According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. John Dyck, vp, Marketing & Business Development, Executive Manufacturing Technologies (London, Ontario), there's a better way to accomplish those and other information acquisition, analysis, and display tasks. It's a product called "VisualPlant." It provides data access via a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Based on Microsoft .net See .NET. For Manufacturing architecture, this is an off-the-shelf package that not only provides a real-time view of what's happening in production [it connects to things including CNCs and PLCs, so information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. is automatic], but also provides the means to perform data mining so that historical information can be used to do such things as identify constraints. New machines or data points, Dyck says, can be added on-the-fly, without having to resort to a systems integrator. About the off-the-shelf status: This is not the kind of software that you can pick up at Circuit City. Typical costs are on the order of $50,000 to $400,000, depending on the size of the application. However, it isn't custom code, and installation is said to be on the order of days, not weeks or months [or longer]. ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , Dyck notes, is said to be realized in as little as six months. So far, customers include DaimlerChrysler, Magna, Visteon, and TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc . For additional information, write in 135 on the Reader Service Card. |
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