TrakSYS™ version 6.0

The new TrakSYS™ real-time performance management solution offers manufacturers powerful benefits:

• Users can meet challenges based on event occurrences, value changes and key performance indicators with messaging and notification sent to subscribers via email or SMS (text message) formats to PCs, PDAs, pagers and mobile phones, thus leveraging the power to quickly respond and improve productivity.

• Users can increase their efficiency through organized and computer-assisted manual data collection from assets and operations -- where automated acquisition is not possible or cost prohibited -- by a set of dynamic, user-configurable forms. This data is then stored, analyzed and visualized in the same manner as the automatically collected data.

• Users now can easily model custom attributes and analytics specific to their resources, assets and workflow to make the process of performance management tailored to their own operations. This will significantly increases the effectiveness of their organized continuous improvement and operational excellence programs.

• Users can now interact even more effectively with shop-floor information to make decisions that will improve performance in real time. The shop-floor operators and associates play a critical role in successful continuous improvement initiatives. TrakSYS™ 6.0 provides them with more relevant, focused and actionable intelligence to help them better fulfill this critical role.

• TrakSYS™ 6.0 provides strong support for Microsoft Vista and reflects Parsec’s continued commitment to extend TrakSYS™ functionality into areas where enterprises need it most.

TrakSYS™ makes it possible to:

• Monitor production performance with real-time and statistical/historical data.
• Measure and Improve OEE.
• Determine the True Root Cause of your Efficiency Losses.
• Tap your plant's unused capacity.
• Meet production schedules.
• Measure efficiency.
• Collect data to drive improvement from your equipment consumables vendors.
• Justify equipment upgrades with hard data.
• Verify maintenance intervals (tie into CMMS).
• Maximize Return on Investment (ROI).

Gaining Control of Applications, Assets, and Productivity Plans.

TrakSYS™ 6.0 incorporates new capabilities that further elevate customers’ ability to collect data, analyze events critical to productivity enhancements, determine root causes for bottlenecks, improve quality yield, reduce cycle time, lower cost of production, streamline raw materials inventory, facilitate planning and scheduling, increase effective asset utilization, and help lower capital expenditure for new assets.

1. LOGICTrak™
LOGICTrak™ is the TrakSYS™ data collection engine. It is a service that runs in the background tasked with collecting raw data from disparate sources. In addition to several performance updates, LOGICTrak™ is equipped to evaluate the powerful Script Tag business rule definition. HISTORITrak™ data collection is integrated into the LOGICTrak™ service including the capability to dedicate a separate LOGICTrak™ engine (on a separate server) to exclusively collect tag history data.

2. MODELTrak™
MODELTrak™ is the TrakSYS™ platform modeling and configuration management application. MODELTrak™ is used to represent the production environment, build asset hierarchies, define data sources, establish data capture schemes, create business rules, develop event definitions, define KPIs, assign production schedule, designate operator teams, and manage messaging and notification criteria. MODELTrak™ has been updated to allow configuration of the many new features including HISTORITrak™, SPCTrak™, IMPROVETrak™ and Script Tags. Improvements to the flexibility of EVENTTrak™ messaging configuration enable event definitions to inherit settings from parent systems.

2.1. Script Tag
This new tag type allows for the creation of ad hoc, user-defined business rules and logic in a single tag using a single-line expression written in the syntax of Visual Basic .NET. In most cases, Script Tags eliminate the need to create complex logic by chaining together several other Logic Tags. This new feature simplifies configuration and streamlines implementation and maintenance of business rules.

2.2. Advance Script Tag
The optional Advanced Script Tag functionality extends the basic Script Tag and allows more complex logic to be created. The Advanced Script Tags use a C# .NET syntax and allows multiple line blocks of script to be executed. In addition, the Advanced Script Tag feature allows reusable script routines to be written and maintained within the TrakSYS™ environment so that common functionality does not have to be duplicated. .NET assemblies can also be created outside the TrakSYS™ environment and referenced from within the Advanced Script Tag (industry-specific modules, plug-ins, special functions, etc.).

2.3. Aggregate Tag
Aggregate Tags allow the combination of multiple tag values using new built-in logical operators. This tag type provides new functionality for calculating the Sum, Average, Minimum, and Maximum values of two or more input tags. Multiple string values may also be concatenated together into a single result. Aggregate Tags eliminate the need for creating multiple Calculation and Compare Tags to produce a similar result, and centralize the logic for these types of operations into a single tag type.

Improving Enterprise Performance

With TrakSYS™, you will also augmenting its existing data management services with functionality for enterprise performance data management and analysis. TrakSYS™ includes the necessary services for providing site-specific data to GLOBALTrak™ enterprise performance management application. GLOBALTrak™ makes it possible to aggregate data from various sites across the enterprise for comparative analysis, benchmarking, reporting and collaboration.

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