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Low-cost interface unit monitors production.


An economical machine-interface unit (MIU MIU Misr International University (Cairo, Egypt)
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Appropriate for or accessible to one who is inexperienced in a field or new to a market: an entry-level job in advertising; an entry-level computer. 
 production monitoring is available from Mattec Corp., Loveland, Ohio Loveland (IPA: /ˈlʌvlənd/) is a city in Hamilton, Clermont, and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. . The new MIU-Z unit costs less than $850 and monitors production and downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure.  at one machine and also allows manual entry of downtime reasons, scrap counts, and scrap reasons. It is compatible with Mattec's entry-level Man-A-ger and ShopPro production monitoring, planning, and scheduling systems. Previous MIUs for those systems serve four to 16 machines and require operators to go to a central location to make manual entries. The new MIU-Z allows manual input at the machine with a keyboard and two-line digital display. Tel: (513) 683-1802 * PT Direct: 221TX

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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH Auxiliaries
Publication:Plastics Technology
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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