Monitor and Control Press Activity at Your Desktop

Using Control Solutions' non-proprietary .NET technology, OpenPM&C automatically pulls production data directly from every press in your plant, in real time. You know exactly what each press and finishing machine is doing and how much it has produced.

You know the piece, the amount of waste produced and where and when in the production stream it occurred. OpenPM&C technology allows you to monitor and control press activity from any node on your network using a standard browser, including remote location, real time.

Networking the Pressroom

OpenPM&C can maximize the value of your equipment and increase your profitability everywhere on the plant floor by:

• Eliminating overruns, under runs and reruns

• Producing matched counts in finishing – safe press shut down

• Dramatically reducing waste

• Closely monitoring the performance of crews and machines

• Reducing downtime and helping to ­ schedule press time more efficiently

• Eliminating manual record keeping for your crews

• Trend chart of each run/historical data

• Safe printing press shutdown

• Reason codes for shutdown

• Browser based technology

• Industry standard networking, communications, etc.

A Complete, Integrated Tracking Network

OpenPM&C technology is developed in a modular Open architecture, using industry standard programming languages, communication and databases: By incorporating Control Solutions couplers and industry standard interfaces, we can use exclusive waste-weighing and technology to deliver the most accurate counts available from any system today. It’s the perfect system for high-speed, high-volume web press, where unmonitored runs can pile up waste in seconds. These industry standard interfaces/couplers allow the use of special sensors or allow for a direct connection to the machine control panel. OpenPM&C is a cost-effective solution for monitoring smaller web, sheet fed, and digital presses and finishing machines.

OpenPM&C uses industry standard communication server and networking (wired or wireless), so that the data from multiple open or closed legacy systems can be collected, consolidated, and displayed on central workstations for management. Using standard browser-based technology, the information is made available to any node on your network. Ethernet capabilities tie your OpenPM&C systems directly to your corporate network. And each OpenPM&C workstation can become an operator’s workstation that provides access to corporate email, your intranet, and other Windows applications.

Easy to Use

OpenPM&C features a familiar Windows interface that lets operators focus on the task at hand, not on data collection. When integrated into a management system like CRC, OpenPM&C will allow operators to display run schedules, production logs, job tickets, and other important production-enabling software right on the count monitor.

OpenPM&C includes reports to provide meaningful information to your managers, who can use this information to add efficiencies to your processes. When the OpenPM&C network printer module is used, these reports, queries, skid tickets, inventory labels and pallet labels can be directed to any barcode/laser printer on your network. The ability to clearly identify the skids on which the product is stored is valuable information for production staff and management. OpenPM&C automatically produces a load ticket as each skid is completed, greatly improving efficiencies in workflow.

Put Your Business on the Fast Track

No matter if you use OpenPM&C in a discrete count network or as an integral component of a management system, OpenPM&C can pay for itself in a year or less. Elimination or reduction of buffer stock (if OpenWMS is used), streamlined productivity, improved efficiency and paper savings alone will provide quick return on investment for OpenPM&C. With OpenPM&C’s precision tracking power, you’ll not only reduce waste, you’ll maximize the value of every operator, press and bindery machine-and increase your profitability everywhere on the shop floor.

OpenPM&C Advantages

• Industry standard .NET architecture using EDAS (Ethernet Data Acquisition System) technology delivers the most accurate counts available, combined with precise waste-weighing technology

• Collects real-time press and production statistics for plant-wide management systems using standard browser-based technology

• Requires minimal operator input; with shut equipment down automatically when final count is reached

• GUI interface is easy to learn and use, and clearly shows machine and pallet counts in real time, along with press rates, quantity remaining, and time to completion

• Integration with Control Solutions networked print management  system allows for sharing of data between all systems.

• Network ready: can link the press to the company network, and serve as the operator’s workstation

• Produces summary reports and pallet tickets automatically and on demand at any print location on the network

• Industry standard communication using wired or wireless technology

• Industry standard database structures

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