Material tracking software: supply chain system for mining, minerals and metals
January 2008
SCADA/HMI
Material Tracking R100 has recently been released by Honeywell as part of its Business FLEX manufacturing execution system (MES) applications. This is a configurable software framework that enables mining, mineral processing and metals production companies to synchronise supply chains with financial processes, resulting in improved productivity and reduced costs.
Material Tracking is applicable in several industries including mining, blending and shipping, iron and steel making, ore processing and concentration, metals refining and chemical batch operations. The program allows tracking, tracing, storage and analysis of all supply chain data, including material flow, quality, ore type and other information. It also provides site-specific, near-realtime views of critical production information with intuitive displays that allow operators to execute and adjust production plans within the supply chain in order to ensure safety, efficiency and reliability.
The system can also serve as a link between production and financial operations. For example, the program can receive and store production planning and scheduling data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and scheduling systems. It can also transmit actual production totals and summary data to ERP systems. The software can receive laboratory data and automatically associates it with recorded inventories.
The application interfaces to plant historians and/or control systems to track material movement data and movement event triggers. The solution manages stockpiles and blending, including simulation and movement reconciliation. It also provides graphical batch analysis functionality that includes full genealogy tracking.
"Material Tracking can give manufacturers a better handle on their supply chains, which leads to multiple benefits including better data analysis and the ability to match inventories with customer demands," said Ashish Gaikwad, global business director of Advanced Solutions for Honeywell Process Solutions. "This integrated approach can help align the financial process with the supply chain and result in more efficient productivity on the plant floor."
For more information visit www.honeywell.com/ps or contact Jason Whitehead, Honeywell Southern Africa, +27 (0)11 695 8000, [email protected], www.honeywell.co.za
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