Plant Floor Connectivity
and Integration
Minotaur Software’s Touch Screen
Production offers live plant floor
weight capture and barcode label printing. It is an efficient way of
recording weighted product as it
is being made.
This is especially valuable in environments where using a keyboard
is not practical (e.g. production
areas that are wet, sticky or subject to powder or for operators
wearing thick gloves).
Users can produce to inventory
work order or to customer order,
including producing customer
specific labels. Producing to order
reduces shipment scanning as
items weighed can be both recorded into inventory and added
to the customer’s order manifest
in one step. Over producing is
eliminated because operators are
advised when they have produced the required quantity for
that order.
Minotaur also has extensive experience receiving data directly
from existing plant floor equipment, to reduce operator entry.
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Talk to your Minotaur sales representative about options to reduce
operator entry.
Plant floor integration could include:
Receiving PLC data from portioning or packaging equipment to populate inventory
automatically
Receiving time card information from hand telemetry or
card punch software to populate timesheets for payroll
Reading weigh scale files to
deplete raw materials from
one stage of production and
add the inventory that was
produced.