Microscan’s Track, Trace and Control Solution wins second industry award in 2010

The flexible solution features TTC middleware, which can partner with any Microscan machine vision or auto ID hardware to address plant-wide information. The TTC middleware, which is the first jointly released solution under the company’s strategic partnership agreement with Cogiscan, was also awarded a New Product Introduction (NPI) Award in the category of Software-Process Control from Circuits Assembly in Las Vegas during APEX 2010.

Microscan’s TTC middleware is specifically designed to provide work-in-progress (WIP) visibility through any factory (tracking), validate the process flow (control) and provide the history of the process steps accomplished on a product (traceability). With TTC middleware, efficient data collection is combined with error proofing to demonstrate process compliance, while reducing material and assembly costs.

Developed by experts in the electronics industry for the electronics industry, this new solution ensures that the right material is at the right place at the right time, along with the historical data to prove it. The middleware provides complete, real time data visibility across the plant floor for any and all data collection points. This can include data collected from machine vision inspections, RFID, barcode and 2D readers.

The Microscan TTC solution allows simple implementation, featuring Web-based controls and reporting, separate from the main IT plant floor network. The solution includes middleware, choice of hardware and complete visibility online for real time reporting. Connectivity to all commonly used MES and ERP systems is easily accomplished. Additionally, it features visual warnings and alarms if a product is scanned at the entry of the wrong operation or if the operation is out of sequence.