Hexcel Corporation

To meet regulations and customer requirements, Hexcel is required to track and prove that materials are used within specific guidelines.

Click here to learn how Pragmatyxs helped design and implement a solution for these business issues.

Material Tracking

Many companies handle time or temperature sensitive materials on very inflexible timelines. If you aren't able to tell where these materials are in your process, you risk losing the inventory all together and drastically decreasing your business's profitability. Your company needs the technology to quickly and effectively track and report on your material's progress throughout your system. Not only will it insure against loss of inventory, a successfully integrated material tracking solution allows you to further streamline and improve your system.

Pragmatyxs provides solutions that streamline business processes and allow for measurement of return on investment. One particular project called for the automation of a very manually intensive operation for the tracking of time and temperature sensitive materials from receiving through manufacturing. Success was accomplished through the careful integration of bar code, automated data collection, web and wireless technologies.

Our Solution

Diagram Description

1. Wireless handheld computers are used to query work order and product data from the ERP system to produce bar coded material labels.
2. Our software sends the data to the Loftware LPS which processes it and sends output to the printer in the proper label format.
3. Wireless handhelds are used to scan the bar code label as the materials move around the plant and in and out of the freezer.
4. The web application is used for administration, to maintain specifications on the materials and to report on status of materials.

• Replaces manual paper based 'traveler' with electronic system using bar codes and real time wireless data collection
• Provides a mechanism to create and print bar code labels on demand from wireless handhelds or a web-based application
• Automates data collection by scanning bar codes as material moves in and out of freezers and through production

Your Company Benefits From

• Increased productivity due to elimination of manual logging and time calculation processes
• Reduced errors synonymous with prior manual system
• Real-time visibility to material status including time of exposure to ambient temperatures
• Increased customer satisfaction by providing more accurate audit information on materials

Applications

• Manufacturing
• Serial Part Tracking
• Time/Temperature Sensitive Materials
• Work In Process (WIP)

Additional Information Available

Contact us for more information about Material Tracking, or to learn more about our System Integration products and services

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