Applications

		AssetTrax AssetTrax tracks capital assets. More… As RFID tag cost has declined, and with the availability of specialized software, it is practical to tag individual capital asset items and track each one through its cycle of use. While the major benefit is loss reduction, much other business process information is mined from always knowing who has what, when it happened, and where it is. AssetTrax, based on TraxWare, provides a large set of applications, hardware, and utilities that altogether enable: recording items to be tracked, encoding tags with standard EPCglobal data, associating each tag with an item, tracking items using RFID portals and handhelds, and reporting current and historical information. Here, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) inspector carries a laptop he uses to assess disaster damage. FEMA tracks these valuable assets from purchase to warehouse to field and back using AssetTrax.

WIPTrax WIPTrax tracks work-in-process inventory. More… The visibility of RFID on the plant floor, where tags can be interrogated from a distance, out of line of sight, and without operator interaction, tracks work-in-process inventory to degrees of accuracy previously unattainable. WIPTrax, based on TraxWare, runs as a service on high-availability servers to track inventory as it traverses the manufacturing process. WIPTrax aggregates all functions needed to create and associate tags, define inventory events, interface with database, ERP, and MRP applications, and issue web-based, on-demand reports. Here, packing cases in a tobacco plant proceed to a filling station. Each case has a unique code that tracks it through various production steps and provides instant feedback on overall plant efficiency.

		SupplyTrax SupplyTrax tracks inventory through the supply chain. More… Mandates from industry giants like Wal*Mart and Department of Defense, and the emergence of reader and tag standards, have fueled the application of RFID in the supply chain. Nonetheless, the industry is at the beginning of the RFID adoption curve. SupplyTrax, based on TraxWare, brings together the enteprise software and hardware needed—including dock and conveyor/diverter portals, and handhelds—to provide a complete scalable supply chain tracking solution. Functions include web-based label printing, carton palletizing, picking, shipping, receiving, reporting, and integration with databases and enterprise systems. Here, a carton of goods moves through a conveyor portal to be added to a pallet before it is shipped. If the carton is improperly serialized SupplyTrax diverts it and displays status information. SupplyTrax displays the pallet's carton count and prompts the operator to affix an SSCC label when the pallet is built.

ControlTrax ControlTrax controls isolated processes. More… In plants, peripheral sites, and vehicles, business processes often are continuously or intermittently isolated from enterprise systems. It is a challenge to track these processes, aggregate data, interface with intermediaries like programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and transmit results. ControlTrax, a TraxWare application, provides disconnected control of isolated business processes. Based on custom workflows defined in Bot Definition Language (BDL), ControlTrax executes business logic, interfaces with devices like PLCs, stack-lights, message-boards, switches, and sensors like RFID interrogators, scales, and photo-eyes, and transmits results to enterprise systems. Here, in an automotive assembly plant, ControlTrax runs on an OnTrax Edge Computer mounted in a NEMA enclosure to track chassis carriers as they circulate the assembly line.