SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATIONS OFFERS NEW ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SUITE FOR SHOP FLOOR DATA COLLECTION

La Mesa, CALIF – December 16, 2008 – Shop Floor Automations (SFA), the largest Distributor and Service Center for Predator Software Inc., today announced that it is offering a new enterprise software suite for shop floor data collection.
The enterprise software suite includes a browser based real time data collection and OEE viewer, a browser based data collection and OEE reports and charts client, and Data Connect middleware application.
The real time viewer utilizes a web based browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to provide a real time shop floor viewer capable of monitoring machine status, part counts, downtimes, productivity, scrap codes, OEE and more. The real time viewer can be viewed via any web enabled device, such as a PDA, laptop, smart phone, or thin client.
The reports and charts client generates reports and charts for trends, comparisons, detailed downtime and more for OEE and other metrics.
Data Connect provides a software based data connection between systems such as Predator MDC™, data collection PLCs, and Ethernet CNC controls such as the Fanuc I series, allowing logic to be applied from all inputs to make decisions and generate a variety of outputs such as updating a database or triggering email.
The enterprise software suite is available exclusively through Shop Floor Automations.
For more information: www.shopfloorautomations.com, email: [email protected], telephone: 619-461-4000, toll free 619-611-5825, fax: 619-461-5918.