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News Release from: Epic Data International | Subject: P3CME
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 September 2003
Managing People, Parts and Process
Epic Data Introduces Collaborative Manufacturing Execution (P3CME) Suite
Epic Data International has introduced the P3 Collaborative Manufacturing Execution (P3CME) suite of applications Epic Data's P3 Collaborative Manufacturing Execution suite is an electronic nervous system for discrete manufacturing organisations
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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P3CME captures data automatically from every touch point in the production process: whenever material is processed, moved, transported, stored, or consumed, which enables managers and operators to monitor key business performance indicators at the workstation, cell, plant, enterprise and supply-chain levels.
P3CME creates a common stream of information across the enterprise and the manufacturing supply chain, coordinating the movement of material and labour to ensure that production schedules and demand are synchronised.
P3CME has three integrated modules - P3-Materials Management System, P3-Time and labour Capture and P3-Shop Floor Execution - that work seamlessly together to create a holistic view of people, parts and processes "Epic Data's Collaborative Manufacturing Execution suite brings collaboration from the drawing board into the value stream by eliminating the islands of automation that obstruct visibility both across the enterprise and up and down the supply chain," said Greg Watkin, Vice President Marketing, of Epic Data.
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"This visibility helps companies to accelerate and extend lean manufacturing initiatives".
Epic's P3CME establishes an electronic nervous system using a unique "bottom-up" approach that starts with information captured and distributed on the shop floor.
This bottom-up view provides manufacturers with the visibility needed to synchronise and adjust production with real-time demands, provide complete production process traceability and support continuous improvement efforts.
"Creating a common stream of information enables bottlenecks and quality problems to be monitored, managed and resolved quickly".
"P3CME enables the movement of materials and labour to be precisely coordinated, ensuring that production schedules are met," Watkin said.
P3CME builds upon Epic Data's 28 years of experience in providing automated data capture systems for discrete manufacturing.
Designed specifically for discrete manufacturing operations, P3CME supports advanced auto-ID and capture, including all standard bar-code types, magnetic stripe, HIDTM and RFID.
utilising Epic Data's highly scalable, open standard eXpresso platform, MPT9100 advanced data capture terminal and innovative ProxWedge reader, P3CME is a high performance application suite capable of processing thousands of transactions per second.
Driven from the device level on the shop floor, P3CME supports any-to-any device communications, including PC's, shop-floor data-capture terminals, wireless local-area and wireless wide-area mobile devices.
P3CME uses Internet standard communications protocols, enabling easy application-to-application connectivity, and communicates seamlessly with all major ERP systems.
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