ANR cites PSL DataTrack in business growth

ANR has relied on DataTrack software for over 10 years to ensure careful monitoring and control of every project that goes through its factory in Bourne End. The challenge for ANR has been to provide a continuous high level of product quality, service and on-time deliveries, every time, to all its customers from sectors as diverse as the broadcasting industry, aerospace, CCTV, medical, marine, defence and design houses. T The company's split-level facility features four distinct electronics divisions on the first floor where DataTrack individually controls PCB assembly, cable assemblies and harnessing, box build and turnkey operations. In the last couple of years, the company has produced over 120,000 PCB assemblies per year. ANR's initial investment in DataTrack was to address the burden of manual administration associated with the purchase of materials and components needed for the manufacture of its fast growing range of assembly types. The subcontractor selected the PSL DataTrack package primarily because of its suitability and proven track record in the engineering sub-contractor sector. "First and foremost, we are a product manufacturer and DataTrack was already proven as a highly efficient system, being used extensively in a number of complex engineering businesses and batch assembly operations similar to our own," says ANR director Nick Wilson. The DataTrack software system was tailored specifically to suit ANR's unique and widely diversified requirements. It controls ANR's product manufacture and administration processes in a seamless implementation. DataTrack orders the materials, verifies delivery dates and allocates shopfloor production time. It has given the company the ability to monitor and control any project, right from the start, maintaining engineering process records and traceable details of over 13,000 individual materials. ANR is now rolling out the Status Board display system, which provides real-time status information for all outstanding jobs, highlighting Work-To lists, Bill of Materials acquisition and allocation progress, an estimate of assembly completion dates and an early warning alert for any jobs that may run beyond promised deliver dates.