Barco WeaveMaster manual

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    Weav eMa st e r Barco’s leading MES system for the textile industry , We aveMaster monitors and synchroniz es all manufacturing and logistic activities within the w eaving mill, fr om y arn purchasing and inventory up t o the shipment of the fi nished fabric. Using the Microsoft Windows ® operating system and ORACLE ® database, We aveMaster of[...]

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    Monitoring and r eporting Re al time machine monitoring We aveMaster’s most important real time analysis tool is the “Co lor Mill”. On this c olor - cod ed lay-out o f the mill, the machin es ar e disp lay ed in a numbe r of c olors , ea ch c olor i ndica ting a ce rtain machine status or alarm c ondition. The user selects the type of informa[...]

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    Pr oduction scheduling The gr aphical plan board With W eav eMaster , the planner c onducts his demanding job by means of an electronic plan board. Integr ated with the style database and the monitoring system, the plan board software automatically calculates the time needed for every order and warp and updates it based on real time information suc[...]

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    Optional modules Y arn inv entory management The software module for y arn invent ory management is ful ly integra ted with the Wea veMaster planning softwar e. The fi rst function of this module is the management of the y arn delivery contr acts with all its technical and commercial details . For e ach delivery of yarn t o the mill, the quantitie[...]

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    Wir eless c onnection of machines to W e av eM ast er DU7P: looms with VDI in ter f ace Micr oproc essor c ontrolled looms equipped with the VDI inte rfac e are connect ed by means of the DU7P interf ace board. Automatic stops are tr ansmitted through the micropr ocessor ’s VDI interf ace and weavers enter manual declarations through the keyboard[...]

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    www .barco .com W ea veMaster Client -Serv er conc ept Barco n.v . Th. Sevenslaan 106 8500 Kortrijk BELGIUM Tel (intl) 32 56 26 26 11 Fax (intl) 32 56 26 26 90 e-mail: sales.bv@barco .com 15/11/2006 BARCO SEDO GmbH Neuwies 1 35794 Mengerskirchen GERMANY Tel (intl) 49 64 76310 Fax (intl) 49 64 763131 BARCO - Loepf e s.r .l. Via El Alamein, 11/C 2210[...]