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Purpose
In manufacturing and assembly plants, peripheral sites, and vehicles, business processes often are continuously or
intermittently isolated from enterprise systems. It has always been a challenge to track these processes, aggregate and
collect data, interface with intermediaries like programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and "edge devices," and
communicate these 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 and processes, interfaces with devices like PLCs, stack-lights, message-boards, switches,
and sensors—including RFID interrogators, scales, and photo-eyes—and transmits results to enterprise systems.
Benefits
- Accurately tracks control process transactions
- Interfaces to PLCs and other sensors seamlessly
- Improves tracking visibility – answers the questions "What do we have, where is it, how was it used?"
- Reduces or eliminates the manual intervention and labor required to drive these processes
- Updates inventory levels in real time
- Interfaces with enterprise systems and/or standalone systems
- Visually interfaces to the operator via message boards, stack lights or displays
- Accommodates custom work flow
- Manages perpetual processes< reliably
- Is built for front-line and mission-critical processes
Features
- Can be server based, mobile device based, or combination
- Works with major databases (MS SQLServer, Oracle, ODBC, Access)
- Supports standard EPCglobal RFID tag encodings
- Provides for standard reporting and ad-hoc queries
- Available through a multi-user browser interface or a windowns console
- RFID Tag lifecycle management utilities
- RFID label printing and job queuing
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