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The
Facts
Information is the most valuable asset of every organization. It
has been a major task for the CIO and MIS manager to scratch their
head on how to develop a robust and flexible system to deal with
data collection especially in the large size manufacturing
facility. Although all kind of data collection device is easily
available in the market from a lot of hardware vendors, from
barcode I.D. to proximity or smart card, but none of these vendor
is providing a complete solution that simplify the deployment
process and provide the flexibility in integration as a total
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Mix
& Match
In most deployment today, the shop floor is flooded with
different kind of data collection device due to the limitation of
each individual feature. Example of a barcode reader can not be
used to read the magnetic strips so 2 separate system is linked up
on 2 sets of cable or network talking on the protocol of its own.
Thus, interfacing between these systems requires substantial
amount of programming work. And when it comes to collecting some
reading of temperature or weight from a weighing scale, some other
device is put in to do the job and not to mention the analog or
digital control or monitoring job where you require a PLC.
As the results, different sets of cable are running like a web
linking all these pieces together making the interface and
maintenance a total nightmare. |
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Integration
Work
Before you can integrate all these devices from
multiple vendor together, an enormous amount of time need to be
spent on understanding the protocol and also to establish some
form of standardization in order for these device to come to term
with each other. The behavior and functionality depend on every
single programming code that is written to handle it in detail. In
the event where the requirement change or the way the data is
captured differently, the programming loop is again started to get
the system to work accordingly.
This kind of system has made the cost of ownership very high and
the time to deliver very long. Thus, making the implementation
fail to take off or adapt to the changes at the timing when it is
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To
End The Frustration
To give the user what they want and when they want it
without the pain and frustration, a system has to be:
- easily programmable or perhaps, no programming at all will
be the most ideal case.
- able to integrate with all kind of system available with the
technology to-date
- able to share information across platform.
- flexible cabling system that can change with the production
layout at any time anywhere.
- powerful feature that can let you capture data in various
sources like keypad entry, barcode reading, smart card,
temperature sensors, voltage reading, on/off switches etc.
with one device, one protocol and one network.
- able to collect data in real-time.
- able to meet the budget, most importantly.
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Papyrus
And The Server Suite
Design from the bottom up to fit the requirement
instead of requirement to fit. A product design by the system
integrator for the system integrator that fulfill your needs and
guarantee your deliverable. By putting together all the necessary
pieces of software, it turns out to be the missing puzzle in the
area of complex data collection system that is highly demanded by
all the world class manufacturing facility today.
- The Hardware
Design that driven by the needs, with mock-able and flexible
add on architecture allowing the system to extend the reach
with the real world having all the interface required for
addressing the needs in data capturing.
Human Interface - Data can be collected through human input
via the membrane keypad and guided by the LCD display with
clear and precise message prompting for every steps of the
data collection process.
Serial Interface - The channel that allows the machine or
equipment to talk to the system. By having this interface, a
2-way communication can be established between them to collect
the data or even to control and monitor the activity.
Analog And Digital Interface - When dealing with the machine
or equipment that is mute without a communication interface,
the input or output that is trigger or require to control, can
easily be achieved by picking up the signals or returning a
signal through the intelligent processing of the hardware.
Add-Ons - Built with the standard that works with the
standard, is allowing the standard add-on available in the
industry to add to the list that expand the functionality of
the system. The list of the add-on includes barcode wand,
laser Scanner, proximity reader, smart card reader, i-Button,
barcode printer etc just to name a few.
Mock Up - The mock-up option is to allow non-standard
interface to be customized to expand the functionality when
the needs arise. Example like, during a complex signal
processing implementation, a signal conditioning board
available as an option or even with special customization can
be easily interface to work closely with the system. With this
option, the system can work beyond the limitation where the
limits can always be extended as and when it is needed.
- The Firmware
The instruction codes that decide how the Papyrus terminal
behaves and how it processes the signal from all the
interfaces. This logic has been put together through the
experience and exposure gather from the implementation of the
large-scale data acquisition projects in various industries
for the past 10 years. These industries include semiconductor,
chemical, textile and garment etc. As a result, the way the
data is being collected can easily be defined and be
categorized into 2 category that always exists in any data
collection implementation. They are attribute data and
quantitative data. The attribute data is representing any data
which is not having any quantity value and for the
quantitative data will be any data that is not define in the
attribute data, that of course carry the quantity value. With
these 2 categories, the firmware has been program to handle
any kind of possibilities and combination of logic required
when dealing with the input and output and replacing the
complexity of logic handling with rules definition which can
be downloaded from the software by setting up the rules table.
With this powerful feature, the programming work is not
require at all and any data collection requirement can be
implemented or even be changed almost instantaneously.
- The Software
All the software that is needed in order to put up a
system is readily available in what we call RSD (Rapid System
Deployment) instead of RAD (Rapid Application Development).
The software is carefully design with user friendliness in
mind and targeting to simplify the job from implementation to
integration. The software products are available under the
ServerSuite and any of them can work independently or working
together to handle any job from as simple as time attendance
to a complex job like shop floor data collection.
- The Integration
Integration with existing legacy system or database of
multi-platform and multi-vendor I.T. environment is a common
scenario of any major data collection implementation. To
address these needs, The ServerSuite product for integration
like ServerSuite Gateway is available to make the integration
part as easy as possible. And, if this is not enough to do the
job, a client connector in Active-X and DLL (Dynamic Link
Library) is available to let you customize your applications
on your own with the popular tools that you are already
familiar with.
- The Network
By having a good hardware and good software only is not
good enough without having a flexible networking system. A
networking system that connects the entire data-capturing
terminal has to have the flexibility of connection, which is
simple and cost effective and can adapt to the ever-changing
production layout as and when require at the fraction of time.
(Networking architecture).
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The
Benefit
A full range of Server Suite product and the Papyrus
terminal family is all you need for any implementation of data
collection project within your budget and the critical time line
you have.
You can now focus on your business needs and let these tools to do
the job or even get a team of consultant or system integrator to
take care of putting the system together.
In addition to these, the system is so flexible to adapt to any
requirement change in the future, the functionality or the feature
will not be obsolete since it is software and firmware driven. A
version upgrade is all you need for the system to continue to do
the job of collecting all the valuable information in your
organization. A successful implementation is to achieve the
objective in time and at the right time. A system that is flexible
to accommodate any requirement anytime will give the best out of
the IT investment. |
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