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Featured Customer Success
ThyssenKrupp Budd Company
ThyssenKrupp Budd Company (Budd) is an automotive supplier with plants across North America.
Budd has been a ToolWorx customer since 2000, primarily for printing and error proofing applications.
Many of their plants manufacture left-hand and right hand automotive parts that come out of the same
press simultaneously and can potentially be mixed up in packing. If this were to happen, Budd would be
subject to significant fines and penalties from their customers. In March 2003, Budd engaged ToolWorx
in two of their plants in North Baltimore and Carey, OH to eliminate any possible shipping errors due
to mixing of left-hand/right-hand parts.
We implemented several of our PLC Printers, which are connected directly to Budd’s PLC’s and send
digital signals to our printers and software to ensure that the correct label is printed every time.
In addition, these part labels then go though a wash and paint process and must still be scanned at
shipping for complete error proofing. Since our implementations, Budd has not experienced any part
mix-ups. An article about the implementation of the Budd error proofing appeared in the January 2004
issue of RealTime magazine and is available on our web site.
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ToolWorx Products :: ToolWorx PLC Printer™
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Eliminate
Mislabeling
Forever!!!
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Are you tired of:
• Mislabeled containers
• Containers that have multiple/mixed
parts in them
• Paying customer fines and attending
$10,000 error proofing workshops
Then it's time to eliminate preprinting shipping labels and get
to the root cause of all mislabeling. It's time to start error proofing
your labeling process with the ToolWorx PLC Printer, the only labeling
system that guarantees that you get the right label every time.
How can it make that guarantee?
Simple. Because the printer hooks right up to the digital I/O of
your PLC and has no PC to operate or reboot. It uses a combination
of Intermec Smart Printing technology and ToolWorx software to communicate
with the PLC and print part and/or container labels. The PLC always
knows what part is being made and sends the appropriate signals
to the printer. The PLC Printer does the rest. You can even hook
up scanners and light trees to the Printer for additional error
proofing.
And, with ToolWorx's PTServer™enterprise
printer control system, you can manage all of your Smart (and "Dumb")
printers all over the world right from your desk. Change label formats,
update printer tables and software, and even check printer statuses,
all in real-time without having to go out onto the shop floor.
Some real-life uses for the PLC Printer:
- Print part labels for left-hand and right-hand parts; never mix parts in a container again
- Scan part labels directly into the Printer to create container labels - avoid preprinting and
"earn" your label
- Print shipping labels with real-time information from your ERP or EDI system
- Do error-proofed end-of-line sequencing to ensure every part is in its correct sequence in a rack - see
End-of-Line Error Proofing System for more detail on this application
A brochure in PDF
format on ToolWorx PLC Printer™ can be downloaded by clicking
here.
Click
here for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
For a copy of our presentations on Error Proofing including customer
case studies,
click here. |
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