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Barco PlantMaster manual

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  • Page 1

    P lantMas t er Barc o’s leading MES s ystem f or discre te manuf acturing, P lant M aster monit ors and synchr o- nize s manufac turing activities fr om independent operati ons to globally distribu ted plants. P lant M aster is designed to se amlessly int egrat e with the compan y’s ERP system. Using the Microsoft Windows ® operating syst em a[...]

  • Page 2

    PlantMaster Client - Serv er c oncept: Wireles s monitoring C onnecting remo te sit es P lant M aster supports the connection of multiple plants to one centr al server . In the remote site, M-s ervers or WDl -s ervers , connected to a leased telephone line or the company’s Intranet, link the machines to the centr al c omputer system. A dedicated [...]

  • Page 3

    C onnecting machines t o PlantMaster Wired or wir eles s netw ork! P lant M aster supports both cabled and wireless networks to connect the machines to the central server . Machines are equ ipped wit h one of Bar co’ s Data Uni ts for au toma tic as well as manual da ta collection or linked directly to the server through their Etherne t interf ac[...]

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    Production visibility and analysis Re al time machine monitoring P lant M aster ’s most important real time analysis tool is the “PlantView”. In this c olor -coded layout of the plant, the machines are displayed in a number of colors, each color indicating a certain machine s tatus or alarm condition. The user selects the type of information [...]

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    Managing job schedules Re al time job schedule P lant M aster ’s plan board lets you know within sec onds whether you can meet customer’s requested delivery dates. Orders can be enter ed directly into the syst em or down loaded from the ERP s ystem. Based on the actual situation in the plant and technical restrictions stored in the system’s d[...]

  • Page 6

    T racing fr om r a w mat erial to finished pr oduct Integr ating trac eability with monitoring Product trace ability has never been more important than tod ay . Origina lly , trac eabili ty requi rem ents wer e rest rict ed to security parts in the automotiv e industry , but now it has become an obligation in various other domains like pharmaceuti[...]

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    Statis tical proc ess c ontrol (SPC/SQC) Quality monitoring... The P lant M ast er SPC/SQC module keeps your process within the specifications r equired for optimum product quality and generat es the documentatio n your customers demand for their quality assur ance pr ograms. Fo r ever y produ ct, the user defines the qual ity and proc ess contr [...]

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    www .barco .c om/plastics Other optional modules Plastic molding Plastic e xtrusion Engineering Pharmac euticals Pre v entive maint enanc e Based on the run time monit ore d by the syste m and the mainte- nanc e inter v al defined for ea ch tool and machine , the pr ev ent iv e maintenanc e module generat es a maintenanc e schedule on weekly or da[...]