What's New in Industrial Software?

Reducing costs and wastes along with improving efficiency is what manufacturers need to do in order to compete in the industrial world. Many industries are turning to industrial software to achieve these goals. With manufacturing processes and quality standards becoming increasingly complex and demanding, industrial systems need to be capable of providing much more detailed information on the control processes for the plant and machinery.

Quality data collection and analysis, product tracking and production reporting all help manufacturers become more lean. Becoming more lean leads to higher quality products, reduced inventory levels, reduced waste during the manufacturing process and ultimately higher yields and more profit.

Web based inventory management software offers traceability or genealogy capability. See Inventory and warehouse management for more applications.

Directories

Inventory Control Warehouse Management ERP RFID Supply Chain Management

SCM Manufacturing MES Barcode scanning MRP

Industrial Systems Offer:

• Production Reporting - Scrap and Downtime
• Production Scheduling
• Job Tracking
• Defect Tracking
• Statistical Control
• Raw Material Inventory and Genealogy

Industrial software usually includes plant floor automation and data collection applications. This includes applications such as data acquisition, production reporting, alarm and event management, HMI (human machine interface) and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition).