Beijing Automotive Works (BAW), a subsidiary of Beijing Automobile Industry Holding Company (BAIC) in China, and two local partners have invested R196 million in a new assembly plant in Springs to produce taxi vehicles for the domestic and sub-Saharan markets.
BAW chose TransLution™ to help manage product movements between different warehouses, ensuring that the right products and quantities are available at WIP when required by production.
SYSPRO is one of the most widely used ERP systems in the warehousing, mining and manufacturing industries, and with great success. The technology has offered many organisations improved efficiency and cost savings.
Altech is a South African telecommunications company providing a range of communication and electronic services and products. Altech, together with Bytes Technology Group, forms part of the Telecommunications, Multi-media and Information Technology (TMT) division of Altron, its parent company.
One of Altech’s services includes production and maintenance of credit card payment terminals, for which they have selected TransLution™ to assist them in managing the Repairs Process. As items are received for repairs they are logged into the system and scanned. The terminal is sent to a technician to determine the fault and the repair requirements.
The key end user benefits of 3.62 relate to our ongoing improvements for allowing TransLution™ to work in a multi-company environment. Now when logging onto either an EazyScan or EazyTouch client, or the TransLution™ Configurator, users can select at that point which company they want to log on to.
We have also made significant strides in making it simpler for customers to maintain their site information without the need to call someone for support. It is possible, when adding a new device to the system to simply copy permissions from an existing device rather than having to set up permissions from scratch. Users can also be copied from existing users. Menu structures have also changed to support our ease of use efforts.
Food safety is a global issue in the production industry. An article in foodsafetymagazine.com looks at how the language barrier on the production floor may affect food safety compliance, and how to address these issues.
“[Food safety] is a very complex system with many interdependent parts, and the most critical factor is the workforce, because employees monitor, control and correct as well as contribute to many of the food safety issues we face each day.”
Accurate data capture on the warehouse floor is the key to proper tracking and efficiency. Without accurate data, how can you identify problems and improve processing? Manual data capture tends to be is time consuming, inefficient, and inaccurate, and the manual input of this data into your ERP system leaves further room for inefficiency and error.
So what should you be doing to simplify and streamline your data capture?
Product recalls are a nightmare for those in the food production industry; they can cause long-term damage to a brand so strict safety and compliance regulations become an extremely important fact of business.
Infor has compiled some extensive research and guidance on food safety and compliance that we think might be an interesting read for those in the industry.
TransLution was featured recently in South African Food Review, talking about quality assurance in the factory.
“An essential aspect of every food manufacturer’s operations, quality assurance ensures food safety and guarantees the customer that food meets a clear, consistent set of standards. Quality assurance is a highly demanding task to manage in a quantity-driven production environment. Current practices need to be revisited to keep pace with more complex production processes and ever-more stringent requirements being placed on the food sector.
Choosing the right labels for the production floor is a challenge that many of our clients come up against. There are many variations and ultimately they want to choose something that is going to be suitable for years to come.
Previously, we talked about Choosing Label Adhesives and the best adhesives for different applications. Choosing a material for your barcode labels is equally as important and also depends ultimately on what you intend to use them for and the kinds of environments they will be exposed to.
Academy Brushware has implemented TransLution™ Software to assist them with their stock take processes.
Academy Brushware produces and distributes a complete range of painting utensils and tools, as well as a wide choice of brooms, for both domestic and industrial use. Academy Brushware also boasts an industrial division where very exact and specific brushes are produced to satisfy the needs of a variety of organisational needs such as road sweepers, rotary brushes, wire-twisted brushes, car washing applicators. These are either machine-made, wire drawn or of manual manufacture. No matter the demands of the customer, they strive to satisfy.
Barcodes are particularly useful for tracking information in the warehousing and manufacturing industries. To help you get started, barcode.com has compiled a list of the most commonly asked questions about barcodes.
The questions include:
What type of barcode do I need?
What type of printer will I need to print barcode labels?
South Africa is the melting pot for different nationalities and cultures. With eleven official spoken languages, often we find there can be a large communication barrier on the warehouse floor. This makes productivity a challenge, and organisations must find ways to address these issues.
Barcodes and manufacturing are coming to work hand in hand. The use of new barcoding technologies have revolutionised the warehousing and manufacturing industries.
Qualitymag.com took a look at some emerging trends in barcode technology, and how the use of barcodes has transformed manufacturing.
Selecting an adhesive for labels seems like it should be as easy as just picking a label, but there are actually a number of factors that should be considered to ensure the correct adhesive for the long term.
Tevo, a South African company specialising in the sourcing, development, marketing and distribution of innovative, high-quality products, has installed TransLution™ Software to assist with a scanner based checking process.
Sales Order Checking is a standard TransLution™ Warehouse Management feature, but Tevo’s requirements were slightly different to the industry norm: the checking needed to be done against customer invoices before goods were shipped. The TransLution setup involves each customer invoice number being entered and scanning the barcode on each item. If the item is not on the invoice, the user is alerted. If the user scans more items than are on the invoice he is also warned. Once the invoice is fully checked, the system automatically prints a barcode label to be attached to the shipment. Items are generally packed into boxes and in order to determine the quantities being checked, TrasnLution uses the SYSPRO pack size rather than having users scan individual items. This also saves the user from having to specify the number of items per box.
Manufacturing and distribution businesses looking for instantaneous fast transactions from the shop floor now have a wider choice of mobile solutions after K3 Syspro announced a unique partnership with software automation expert AfriSoft.
The partnership has made K3 Syspro a key reseller of TransLution™ mobile software for the UK and Europe, adding to its already impressive mobile product range. The product complements K3 Syspro’s existing SYSPRO Espresso product, which was introduced with the recent SYSPRO 7 upgrade.
