Features
- Centrally manage your plant workstations
- Collect solicited data (eg: from workstations)
- Collect unsolicited data (eg: from unattended scales)
- Web-based reports, accessible from anywhere
- Built upon the robust and scalable SQL2008 Database engine
- Event Alerting and Response System ("EARS") automatically escalates issues depending on their importance
- Modular design to allow phased installation
- Integrates with external systems (ERP, SPC)
- Business Intelligence reports
Business Benefits
- Minimize downtime
- Ensure label compliance
- Labour reduction
- Productivity improvements through better visibility of line, operator performance
- Yield monitoring reports
- Regulatory Compliance
- Quality control
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- iCap™ : is Carlisle Technology's third-generation of plant floor weighing, labeling, and plant floor control software.
- Symphony WMS™ : Carlisle's inventory and warehouse management for the food industry, specializing in serialized tracking of perishable goods.
- Symphony™ Integrated Suite : Carlisle's suite of products that enables full product traceability and management visibility; it encompasses receiving (ingredients), WIP tracking (including mixing), packaging (weighing and labeling), inventory management, shipping, and reporting
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Comprehensive Production Visibility and Control
Plant
Managers know that to be competitive in
today's marketplace, you need access to
the right information - at the right
place and at the right time.
Carlisle's Symphony™ MES (also known as "Informer") is a Plant Visibility Suite that provides plant managers and shift supervisors with visibility and control, and the tools necessary to make better business decisions now! This eliminates the guesswork and allows you to manage what you can measure. It is not acceptable to find out tomorrow that you should have changed something today to improve your profit margins.
The Symphony™ MES puts a suite of tools at your fingertips that allow you to increase your manufacturing productivity and efficiency by providing shop floor visibility and production control.
Visibility is achieved through up-to-the-minute, meaningful production information presented via multiple, flexible delivery mechanisms. These range from our hardened Protector™ Series touch-screen screen workstations and innovative web-based smart LED Displays, to web-based KPI dashboards that give you up-to-the-second key process indicators so you can assess how your business is running.
The web-based interface to Symphony™ MES is used for configuration of all your workstations (eg: data collection, label deployment), as well as viewing production reports to assess your performance, yields, and giveaway.
The Symphony™ MES is an essential part of a total plant data management solution for weighing, labeling, production reporting, yield analysis and product giveaway.
Scales with your business
The Symphony™ MES was designed with feedback and experience of both our large and small customers.
Here's how the Symphony™ MES can grow with your needs:
Centralized Data Collection & Reporting
Multiple iCap stations can be integrated via Carlisle's Symphony™ MES (Informer). This provides central control of the product information, tare weights and labels, while collecting the data from each station for centralized reporting and traceability. Gain visibility of your production efficiency via the web-based KPI Dashboard, which shows top products, error conditions, yields, giveaways, and more…
Key Features:- label design and deployment: ensure your approved labels are active on your iCap workstations
- Manage stations individually, or as part of a workgroup
- reporting via web browser - many standard reports for production, yield, efficiency, traceability
- event alerting with escalation paths, to minimize downtime
- partials support : operator with insufficient product can mark the box as a "partial", and complete filling it later
- production goal setting and monitoring: Monitor your progress towards production targets, and alert operators when the target is reached
- integrates with inventory (Symphony WMS), so that all your production is automatically in inventory, and available to pick and ship
Process Traceability Manager
When you need an expanded level of traceability through complicated recipes and WIP processes, iCap/PTM can help. iCap/PTM is part of the Symphony Process Traceability Manager solution ("PTM"), which connects and co-ordinates the various production stations on your plant floor. Rather than being point solutions for weighing, labeling, and WIP tracking, these stations are part of a unified "Recipe Execution" system. A Recipe is more than a list of ingredients to Symphony. It is a series of steps that are taken to ensure that your product is built with consistent quality, including HACCP & GMP data collection. iCap/PTM is the plant floor software that follows these process steps, from mixing ingredients, taking temperatures, weighing, and even prompting operators to verify that the equipment has been cleaned. And most importantly, every process and ingredient is linked together with automatically-generated lot numbers, so you'll have full traceability. These steps can be executed on particular stations, in a prescribed order. Quality control steps can be added, such as checking temperatures, recording operator feedback, and of course measuring weights.
Key Features:- automatically generate lot codes at Critical Control Points (CCPs)
- assign specific processes to an iCap station or group of iCap stations
- create and schedule batches of production that follows a specific recipe of processes and ingredients
- ensure recipes are followed within specified tolerances, or leave open for simplicity/discretion of operator
- track exceptions to the recipe (e.g. substitutions, recipe development, or approved quantity changes)
- integrates with inventory (Symphony WMS) to deplete ingredients, packaging, add finished goods ready for shipping
- track stations, operators, process steps, inputs, output
Order Filling
In some scenarios, food processors need to package products according to orders (customer sales order or work orders). Using the Symphony Order Filling module, orders are coordinated with one or more iCap stations for fulfillment. When an order is complete, iCap notifies the operator, so that they can quickly change to another order
Features:- Orders can be filled on one or more iCap stations simultaneously
- Labels can automatically contain order information
- Orders can originate from your external ERP system (optional)