iDSnet Manager Version 2 package code management software

Matthews’ locally developed iDSnet suite integrates all coding and labelling equipment to deliver a product-traceability solution throughout manufacturing businesses, creating more streamlined operations. The company will be launching iDSnet Manager Version 2 at AUSPACK PLUS 2011.

This latest package code management (PCM) software is flexible (manufacturers can customise it to their businesses) and shows staff exactly what’s happening on the production floor. iDSnet also automatically generates emails when equipment needs maintenance and printer status alerts for warning and fault messages.

The software collects data from every coding and labelling station as well as other input sources, such as scanners, photo eyes and so on, that is directly related to collecting reliable production throughput of primary, secondary and pallet volumes. It uses this data to run dashboard reports, with in-depth, real-time production line performance monitoring, giving actual production efficiencies, including idle times and breakdowns, as well as reports on what’s causing production stoppages.

Along with these reports, the software connects in with shop floor scoreboards. This real-time information makes operators and line supervisors, for example, instantly aware of current production efficiencies against known targets. It also alerts them to issues, so these can be quickly addressed and any significant productivity losses avoided.

Because iDSnet Manager’s customised web-based dashboards and reports give plant managers visibility and insight into production efficiencies by date by line and so on, it gives them the ability to take immediate action to avoid downtime, as well as the confidence to take long-term strategic decisions based on actual real-time data.