Sentinel Machine Monitoring - imprint management information systems

IMPRINT-SENTINEL MACHINE MONITORING

Imprint-Sentinel Machine Monitoring has the effect of bringing the whole MIS system to life. Factories on weekends or 24 hour shifts may be monitored live from a Laptop at home.

The Imprint-Sentinel is a Live-on-Line, high performance, intelligent, monitoring system for reel and sheet fed machines and any production unit where items may be counted. It continuously monitors performance, automatically identifies standing time from running time, counts good and waste copies and maintains performance against a full range of Operation Codes and compares all this information to the targets set by Estimating via the Works Instructions.

Sentinels attach, non invasively, to any make of machine of any age; from modern CIP3 interfaces down to Heidelberg Platens and finishing equipment. Data Capture itself is greatly automated by the process. Sentinel has an automatic understanding of what is make-ready, what is running, what is an unexpected stoppage and Downtime etc. The information is also on line live (updating every 10 seconds) to the Production Control Planning Board showing good copy count and projected finish time, etc.

If Sentinels are attached to further machine processes; such as folding machines and binding lines then the waste can be tracked throughout the production cycle.

Main Objectives

To remove human error from data input by using software to deduce what is happening on machine.
To save Machine Managers’ time by reducing time-recording responsibilities.
To provide Live-on-Line data feedback to the production planning board.
To provide quality assurance and 24 hour machine utilisation reports.
To keep track of material waste and give waste control reports.

Integrations

Estimating and Works Instructions

Estimated performance targets via Works Instructions are available to the Sentinel.
Estimated target times are compared to actual times on the performance reports.

Costing

Sentinel data, SFDC and Manual time sheet data, all merge to the Raw Data Files held in Costing.

Production Control

Office viewing screens and the Production Planning boards receive the live data from the Sentinel every 10 seconds. The viewing may also be seen by modem on a laptop from home.

Features

Machine manager’s screen constantly shows the Quantity Required; Running count; Run Speed; Projected Finish time; Good Copies and the Wasted copy count.
The system can measure sheets or metres and can automatically generate bar coded pallet labels as the work is produced.
Jobs and/or Pallets or Reels of paper can be scanned in by bar code. In the case of materials this will automatically deduct from stock and book to the job. As each reel is uniquely numbered within its ‘batch’ Stock Control gives you individual reel traceability.
Material waste reports will show such items as; Make-Ready Waste; Running Waste; and for reel fed presses there is Core and Slab Waste and Press-Stops Waste, etc.
Being a live system, it is ‘event’ driven, ie unexpected press stops or slow downs can trigger warnings to production control and works management.
Waste and Utilisation Reports are printed both by the Job or via a Report Generator for analysis by a range of criteria over any time scale.
Quality Assurance: A sheet inspection sample quantity can be set for each run so that the system will warn an operator to inspect a sheet (e.g. Every 200 or every 500). The sheet number is recorded with the time etc. and recorded as passed or failed. Failure reasons are recorded and a full reporting system shows quality performance throughout one job or over several jobs.

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Imprint Business Systems Ltd
Poplars, High Easter, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4RB
Tel: 01245 231670 Fax: 01245 231789