WIPtracker Technology

WIPtracker is a complete integrated data collection and operations tracking system that runs 24x7 on a ruggedized Windows IOT Enterprise based industrial computer at each site. As a result, manufacturing and distribution operations are able to continue, even if the Internet goes down. This, unfortunately, is happening with increasing frequency as the Internet becomes more and more overloaded and has to drop messages or even experiences outright failure.

WIPtracker can be run stand alone or it can exchange data with external ERP and other systems. This data exchange can be performed by intelligent agents, running in WIPtracker, communicating with the REST interfaces of these systems. Alternately WIPtracker supports an easy-to-use web-services interface through which external systems can send orders to WIPtracker and retrieve operational status and history data.

Systems analysts, manufacturing engineers, and IT specialists can write and upload Python scripts to WIPtracker which exchange data with a wide variety of ERP and other systems, through their REST interfaces, as well as to exchange data with supply-chain trading partners.

These Python scripts can also be used to monitor the data in the WIPtracker operations tracking database, in near real-time, and to generate Email alerts when situations arise that managers or their staff need to pay attention to. These same Python scripts can also be used to periodically deliver routine status reports, by Email, to lists of recipients.

 For those organizations that need more advanced capabilities, additional IOT boxes can be added to WIPtracker for barcode label printing, RFID tracking and the integration of data from weighing scales, to ensure accurate data capture.

 WIPtracker can also use customized software in yet more IOT boxes to pass orders to process control lines and test stands as well as to retrieve data from these systems.

WIPtracker has proven to be easy to use for capturing operational tracking data by machine operators and material handlers with limited computer knowledge. It also offers a wide-range of operational reports to make operations management as straight forward as possible for production and materials managers, as well as for warehouse managers and shipping & receiving supervisors.

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