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Purpose
Tracking work-in-process inventory on the plant floor has always been complicated and problematic. Sensor-based technology
can now track work-in-process inventory to degrees of accuracy previously unattainable. Using RFID, items can be
interrogated from a distance, out of line of sight, and without operator interaction.
WIPTrax, based on TraxWare, runs as a service on high-availability servers or
edge controllers to track inventory as it traverses the entire manufacturing process.
WIPTrax aggregates all functions needed to create and associate tags, define inventory events, interface with its own database
schema, or legacy databases, ERP, and MRP applications, and provide reporting via web-based, on-demand reports.
Benefits
- Accurately tracks inventory transactions with minimal labor
- Tracks inventory at the serial – individual item -- level
- Improves inventory visibility – answers the questions "What do we have, where is it, how was it used?"
- Reduces work in process inventory levels
- Updates inventory levels in real time
- Interfaces with enterprise systems for data exchange
- Interfaces to the operator and the manager
- Tracks labor utilization
- Accommodates custom work flow
- Manages perpetual inventory (in/out)
- Tracks hierarchical relationships between items
Features
- Can be server based, mobile device based, or combination
- Works with major databases (SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, Access)
- Supports standard EPCglobal RFID tag encodings
- Standard Reports
- 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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