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News Release from: DLoG (UK)
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 May 2006
Borg Warner awards GBP 200,000 order to
DLoG
Through a GBP 200,000 order, DLoG will supply 50 Industrial PCs to Borg Warner, which will be networked to metal cutting and assembly machines at the customer's Bradford, UK site.
Shopfloor networking and hardware specialist, DLoG (UK) has won a GBP 200,000 order to supply and install a production data management and shopfloor data reporting system at Yorkshire-based Borg Warner Turbo Systems Through the order, DLoG will supply 50 Industrial PCs (IPCs), which will be networked to metal cutting and assembly machines at the customer's Bradford manufacturing site
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The system's principal features include controlling the transfer of production engineering data to the shopfloor, as well as monitoring activity against a company-wide database of standard machining cycle and job time information.
Once installed, the system will record the production status of each machine and the number of parts produced each shift, enabling it to produce detailed reports on machine uptime and downtime, OEE performance and the reasons for any scrapped work.
In addition, the DLoG system will be enhanced to provide real time feedback to operators - not only allowing them to check that production targets are being maintained, but also providing them with operational information such as estimated batch completion times.
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The DLoG system will also integrate with Borg Warner's existing ERP system and Standard Pro implementation, which maintains production timings and other standard information across the company's manufacturing operations.
According to Borg Warner 6-sigma black belt, Darren James: "We chose DLoG in preference to a number of other vendors; not only because of the proven durability of its hardware, but also through the company's willingness to customise its software to our specific requirements." He said: "The new DLoG system will streamline our procedures and provide valuable historical data to support component traceability and plan our future production." * About DLoG (UK) - based at Oldbury in the West Midlands, DLoG (UK) specialises in providing industrial networking and touch screen shopfloor solutions that encompass everything from shopfloor data collection, machine monitoring and Work In Progress tracking, to sophisticated production data management systems capable of development into fully paperless manufacturing solutions.
With a UK user base exceeding 300 installed sites, the company services the needs of customers throughout the aerospace, automotive, precision engineering, woodworking, tobacco and pharmaceuticals sectors.
A Microsoft Certified Partner, DLoG (UK) also provides a wide range of DNC solutions, tool management systems, Work in Progress, Finite Capacity Scheduling and Barcode applications.
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