A series of additional options are also now available. ‘Alerts’ provides automatic notification of events to specific users, such as material stock with short or critical life, kits approaching cure-by date or nests being cut. These alerts can be easily passed to third party external apps, allowing for Industry 4.0 communication and automation.
‘Processes’ allows for a complex series of operations to be created, alongside default durations, which can then be associated with an assembly. When a resulting kit is created from an assembly, users can specify when an operation is started/stopped, with the resulting process and timings logged.
‘Web Services’ delivers tight integration and data exchange with systems such as MRP – using Microsoft’s Web Services platform – providing real-time updating, either of CrossTrack from MRP or vice-versa.
Martin Bailey, general manager, says; “CrossTrack 5 continues to extend its reach on the shop floor, with these new features allowing it to track the location and consumption of complete bills of materials, as well as making it easier than ever to exchange data with existing systems such as MRP.”
