Product traceability
Traceability is the basis of the system of paperless online tracking and monitoring of the complete course of products through the production process. The result is full control over the execution of each operation of each piece or production batch, immediate information about any quality problem or non-compliance with the technological procedure and technological conditions, and the traceability of the progress and technological conditions of production for each piece and production batch, including a record in the form of a product pedigree. This data subsequently also serves as the basis for monitoring and managing the product life cycle in Product LifeCycle Management (PLM) and BigData analysis.
Traceability
The basis of a successful traceability system is the online collection of data from the production process with digital identification of individual elements of the system, especially products, containers, machines and tools, and their mutual online communication. Bar codes, QR codes, RFID, NFC or active IoT elements can be used to identify system elements and communicate with each other. Communication can be ensured via many different protocols and converters such as OPC and the latest OPC UA, or for older machines via the RS232/422/485 interface, buses from the Fieldbus family, etc. For communication with third-party databases, it is possible to use, for example, ODBC.
The Traceability application can work independently or can be connected to other MES applications of the Act-in system, such as the Production Scheduler system, the ANDON, production terminals Field Client, OEE machine efficiency monitoring system and operators Performance Analyzer, maintenance management system Maintenance Control, predictive maintenance system and Condition Monitoring Plant Monitor, or the SPC process quality control and suitability system Statistical Quality Control, including connection to the most modern technologies of the type of smart glasses SmartGlasses and augmented reality AR.
The Traceability application can work independently or can be connected to other MES applications of the Act-in system, such as the Production Scheduler system, the ANDON, production terminals Field Client, OEE machine efficiency monitoring system and operators Performance Analyzer, maintenance management system Maintenance Control, predictive maintenance system and Condition Monitoring Plant Monitor, or the SPC process quality control and suitability system Statistical Quality Control, including connection to the most modern technologies of the type of smart glasses SmartGlasses and augmented reality AR.
Traceability's main functional features include:
- record of time, place, workers and technological parameters of each operation
- registration and control of input material and semi-finished products in the production process
- checking the execution of operations and adherence to prescribed procedures
- checking the consistency of FIFO operations
- tracking both products and production batches and shipments
- identification of products and shipments with barcodes, QR codes, RFID, NFC tags or IoT elements
- traceability of all production steps and process parameters
- documenting the family tree of products
- creation of basic data for Product LifeCycle Management (PLM) and BigData analysis
