Minotaur Software Aug.2014 | Page 16

Plant Floor Connectivity and Integration Minotaur Software’s Touch Screen Production offers live plant floor weight capture and barcode label printing. It is an efficient way of recording weighted product as it is being made. This is especially valuable in environments where using a keyboard is not practical (e.g. production areas that are wet, sticky or subject to powder or for operators wearing thick gloves). Users can produce to inventory work order or to customer order, including producing customer specific labels. Producing to order reduces shipment scanning as items weighed can be both recorded into inventory and added to the customer’s order manifest in one step. Over producing is eliminated because operators are advised when they have produced the required quantity for that order. Minotaur also has extensive experience receiving data directly from existing plant floor equipment, to reduce operator entry. 14 Talk to your Minotaur sales representative about options to reduce operator entry. Plant floor integration could include:  Receiving PLC data from portioning or packaging equipment to populate inventory automatically  Receiving time card information from hand telemetry or card punch software to populate timesheets for payroll  Reading weigh scale files to deplete raw materials from one stage of production and add the inventory that was produced.