NC Vision for Line Management
Process-optimized Line Management
Get full visibility and control over your operations. Everything that you need to run and manage your line, in one place.
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No more overtimes: Increase operator efficiency
Say goodbye to low operating efficiency and constant overtimes, starting today. Get the visibility you need: effortlessly track the status of workers, see the tasks they started and scale the productivity of your assembly and logistics processes.
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Get full visibility: Improve product traceability
Get instant access to critical information required to track a suspect product, throughout the value chain. Full visibility will help you ensure quality and continued compliance with regulatory requirements, providing the means to easily trace and analyze the source of defects, should they occur.
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Optimum planning & increased productivity
Create just the solution you need for optimum planning and parameterization of your line. Take control of your production and capture the consumption of raw materials and easily identify the loopholes and productivity issues.
Boost Line Management – Thanks to the NC-Vision Toolbox for Production & Traceability.
No more Overtimes: Increase Operator Efficiency
Say goodbye to low operating efficiency and constant overtimes, starting today. Get the visibility you need: effortlessly track the status of workers, see the tasks they started and scale the productivity of your assembly and logistics processes.
Shop floor control and work in progress tracking
Worker’s productivity analyses
Definition of configurable cycle steps and dependencies
Electronic work instructions allow the operator to quickly remember the next steps to perform
Customize the production steps of every station via master data
Improve Product traceability: Get Full Visibility
Get instant access to critical information required to track a suspect product, throughout the value chain. Full visibility throughout the value chain will help you ensure quality and continued compliance with regulatory requirements, providing the means to easily trace and analyze the source of defects, should they occur.
Record and store all production data: materials used to produce, process parameters, operators.
Print labels to identify the produced parts.
Record the desired production parameters for every produced part and the serials of raw material containers or the serials of sub-assemblies used to produce a part
Keep full history of produced parts and dispatch additional test based on defined rules
Increased Productivity & Optimum Planning of your Line
Finally an easy way to transform your factory and gain a competitive advantage in today’s market. With NC-Vision’s revolutionary toolbox and No-Code technology, you create just the solution you need for optimum planning and parameterisation of your line. Take control of your production and capture the consumption of raw materials and easily identify the loopholes and productivity issues.
Registration of the consumption of raw materials & deficiencies
Real time monitoring of the line and identification of bottlenecks
Clear overview of downtimes
Easy to signalize a problem in the line
Notifications for the teams responsible with the resolution
By creating electronic downtimes from the station, issues can be solved faster, increasing the available production time
Accurate: Improve Shop Floor Control
On-time delivery without the usual stress? Get immediate visibility of raw materials, so you can check stock levels at any time and never lose out on another order due to stock-outs. View task updates in real-time, monitor key metrics, make accurate decisions and keep everything on track.
By loading the materials at the station, the accuracy of the WIP stock increases.
Electronic kanbans ensure that only the material that is needed will be delivered to the line.
Easily find the desired parts, by identifying them with labels that can be followed through the process.
Pack the parts in containers and label them so they can be delivered to the warehouse,
Process-optimized Line Management Solution with built-in Traceability. Schedule a Free Discovery Session Now!
Together with our solution consultants, discover which modules will help you most, reduce your inventory levels and picking up times or add traceability if required by your important clients -without breaking the bank.
Start Faster: Get a Head-start with the NC-Vision Line Management Solution. Extend Later.
Discover the power of the toolbox: A selection of modules, already configured to the standards and processes of warehouse management, developed hand-in-hand with our most advanced customers. You only pick the modules you really need – for a quick and affordable solution doing exactly what you’re looking for.
Production Line
Configure your work stations to cover all manufacturing scenarios and makes your virtual line a mirror of the real one.
- Full product traceability
- Increased operator efficiency
- Increased productivity
- Part and container identification
- Reduce inventory
- Overview and control of what is produced
- Identification of production bottlenecks
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Produce the necessary parts at each station based of a number of sources like: production scheduling, manual set-up or automated selection based on assembly serial
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Load materials at the point of consumption based on BOM ( Bill of Material )
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Automated serial flow validation based on multi level BOM
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Configurable operation steps
Downtime Management
Real-time overview of stoppages and resolution times.; take the necessary actions in a timely manner in order to resume production.
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Track and manage downtime events based on predefined list of issues
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Operators can open operation downtime event by selecting a downtime reason
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Downtime events can be processed by specific users depending on their assigned roles
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Closed downtimes have to be validated for permanent closure
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All downtime durations are compared with the downtime data record for later reports
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Real time visual indicators for shop floor downtime
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Alerts can be configured to inform about downtime progress
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Downtime history is kept.
Work Instruction
As more and more complex steps need to be performed by the operators and as the diversity of the parts increases, the note book with work instructions provided at each station becomes more and more important and thicker. With our Work Instruction module, you can show only the relevant instructions for the current step and part, allowing the operator to focus on what he has to produce.
- Store the work instructions
- Associate the work instruction to the production station for a specific step or part
- Display the work instruction when it is needed
Packaging
With our Packaging module, you can ensure that you can trace your production lots or individual parts to the right container and provide the correct label for them. As packaging becomes more and more complex and expensive, our Packaging capability of loading and consuming packaging materials at each station gives you accurate inventory levels for them.
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Manage packaging of parts using uniquely identified amounts
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Multi-level packaging system in which parts can be packed into containers that can be packed in other containers – palletization
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Support packaging for part amounts and uniquely identified parts
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Unique identification of packed part amounts
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Label packages with custom designed layouts
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Predefined or dynamic container sizes
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Automatic container sizing based on volume or weight
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Loading and consumption of packaging material
Production Declaration
Timely declaration of the parts that you produced in your ERP is key for proper reporting of inventory and efficiency. With our Production Declaration Module, your production is recorded in real-time and can be exported to your ERP with the frequency that you desire. You can add your required export data format to our library of existing format.
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Declare production directly to ERP external database
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Generate EDI files to be transferred for later processing by external software
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Provide modern communication protocols for external software usage that expose internal data records link production, scrap or process related information ( rest api, message broker, web sockets )
Production Feeding
A properly supplied production line with the right material, in the right quantity while still being able to trace the material back to the supplier packaging unit is one of the key prerequisites to ensure continuous operation of the production line, while still meeting the quality requirements. Our Production Feeding Module comes with push and pull (kanban) methods of line feeding, depending on your needs.
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Push feeding
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Define picklists based on production order for usage in mobile applications
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Collect based on order
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FIFO tracking
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Pull feeding
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Create kanban
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Allocate part amount to kanban
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FIFO picking of kanban
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Pick list of kanbans
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Kanban consumption
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Kanban release
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Extendable & flexible: Add functionality. Mix & Match the Solutions You Need.
The thing with standard software is: There’s always something missing. Not with NC-Vision: The revolutionary NC-Builder lets you add functionality, from simple data fields to complex features, without writing a single line of code.
Automation
Modular automation solution, covering Process machine link and Machine Value Acquisition. Connect to your machines and integrate them as a whole in the assembly process, capture and store all the data for future reference..
- Build complex manufacturing solutions
- Reduce operator workload
- Reduce cost
- Be ahead of your competitors by being an early adopter of fully integrated solutions
- Storage of process data
- IOT ready
Change Management
Because we know how important getting a new product out flawlessly is, our modular Change Management solution comes to your help. It enables you to properly manage the change from one product to another or from one revision to another and includes the proper tools to track issues related to their introduction in the production line.
- Change History
- Error proofing
- Improved change management
- Schedule the production of pipe cleaners
- Track all the issues related to a change
- SaaS ready
Data Integration
Today's businesses are more connected than ever and the connections happen more and more over electronic channels. Our modular solution allows fast integration of business partners & processes, covering all industries.
- Improved customer communication
- Error proofing
- Order change revision
- Increased productivity
- Aligned to standards
- Cloud Compatible
Data Management
Maintain and organize complex data for your organization and effortlessly enhance your solution by adding new data structures linked to the existing ones.
- Organize data
- Error proofing your data
- Easy to view
- Extend your data
- Secure storage
- SaaS ready
Line Management
A powerful tool that brings the layer of abstraction that is needed to configure your work stations to cover all manufacturing scenarios and makes your virtual line a mirror of the real one.
- Product traceability
- Increased operator efficiency
- Reduce inventory
- Increased productivity
- Part and container identification
- Cloud Edge Compatible
Maintenance
Properly plan the maintenance activities and track the usage of equipment and the consumables that have to be replaced at given time intervals.
- Maintenance record
- Resource scheduling
- Inventory management
- Equipment availability
- Prevent breakdowns
- SaaS ready
Training & Certification
Our advanced Training & Certification solution helps you develop and improve operator competency, covering every step, from defining the skills requirements for specific operations, to tracking the last training and its validity.
- Ensure proper skills for defined role
- Increased customer trust
- Detailed history of trainings
- Execute trainings in time
- Accumulate skills for new role
- SaaS Ready
Production Planning
Manage production scheduling, inventory, sales, procurement and shop-floor in one place. This powerful and flexible solution for production planning helps you meet customer demands on time, every time.
- Eliminate shortages
- Increase efficiency
- Improve order traceability
- Optimize capacity usage
- Reduce E&O
- SaaS Ready
Quality
Streamline quality assurance, by planning, assigning and monitoring quality control inspections & supplier audits in one modular solution
- Produce top-notch quality parts
- Increase efficiency
- Reduce cost
- Standardization
- Product traceability
- Cloud Edge Compatible
Warehouse Management
Modular warehouse management solution, covering everything from storage to shipping, inventoring, monitoring, decanting and receiving.
- Proper use of space
- Increased productivity
- Container traceability
- Reduced picking time
- Reduced inventory cost
Scrap Management
With pressure to reduce inventory levels and the cost of goods sold mounting, scrap value becomes a very important component in the overall picture. Use our scrap management solution to record and view it in real time.
- Real time monitoring
- Process improvement
- Cost reduction
- Accurate inventory
- Improved Quality
- Cloud Edge Compatible
Virtual Office
We create your customized, digital office space outfitted with collaboration and communication tools to replicate a physical office space: Document Management, Task Management, Project Management.
- Manage complex projects
- Increase office efficiency
- Paperless Office
- Fast reaction
- Ad-hoc task assignment
- SaaS Ready
Rework
Monitor the materials and labor that go in and out of the rework process. Finally no more waste, without extra complexity and quality risks.
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Monitor which parts go to rework, either as amounts or as single piece
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Serial based tracing of reworked parts
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Trace lots of materials used during rework and scrapped amounts
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Recovery of reusable components in case of disassembling
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Transform unneeded parts in parts in demand
Virtual Shopfloor
Monitor, manage and control manufacturing shopfloors. Our powerful solution provides a digital 360° view of all processes, from quote preparation to quality control and shipment.
- Digitalization of your entire production operation
- Increased efficiency and transparency,
- Optimized process reliability and production operations
- View of your processes and machines from anywhere
NC-Builder No-Code Technology
NC-Builder is an unique no-code technology created by NC-Vision. NC-Builder makes it possible to create complex enterprise software easily, quickly and with up to 10 times less effort than traditional software development approaches.
No programming knowledge is required, not even a single line of source code. At the same time NC-Builder lets you create the features and processes you need for your own specific solutions - offering full flexibility.
With NC-Builder new solutions, modules or custom adaptations and extensions of the NC-Vision products can be realized quickly and easily.
With just 5 days of training your key user will be able to make adjustments and even create after weeks of training advanced complex functionalities as needed.
NC-Builder is fully integrated in all NC-Vision products.
Core System
The core system contains a collection of basic, essential functionalities.. Each of our revolutionary toolbox solutions always include the specific functionalities of the solution and modules, as well as the core system.
- Security: Permission management based on user or group of users, SSO, self-hosted, active directory, Google, etc
- Scalability and High performance: Centralized, scalable architecture optimized for high performance keeping business data at 1-click distance
- Cluster: Support of distributed cluster environments with the option of an automatic synchronization of the instances.
- Centralized architecture: Automatic, dedicated data replication and centralization
- Cloud Edge: on-site self-hosted server for high performance execution and a synchronized primary cluster server where all data are centralized
- Label traceability: Use our label designing and rendering functionality, storing a digitalized version of the printed label to speed up your operations .
- Dashboard: Dashboard with real-time information on all production KPIs or historical data
- Data record history: Track and store the history of data records that were altered used also for record revising and traceability purposes
- Atomic record editing: Option to lock the editing of the record to a single user assuring that 2 users cannot change a data record by editing at the same time and overwriting previous changes
- Worktime schedule computation: Support to perform time operations based on defined worktime time plan where the platform can precisely calculate the ending time of a task by taking in consideration the business working schedule and free days
- Mobile Functionality: Applications are cross platform and responsive, ready to run on mobile devices supporting operating systems like Android, Windows 10, Linux or iOS
- Integration and Compatibility with Other Systems: High number of protocols and interface types available, using external software systems or direct database connection, Rest/SOAP API endpoints, WebSocket/Socket connections, file transfer, email inbox, etc
- Comprehensive reporting: Design and generate reports in various formats in the platform, no need for other proprietary or external tools
- Document templating: Document generation made easy, content based on dynamic data input, xlsx, docx, pptx, text, HTML supported.
- Integrated label designer tool: High number of formats supported Zebra - ZPL II, Toshiba TEC, Image - PNG, PDF, PostScript PS, etc.
- Industrial automation: Support for a large variety of interfaces and protocols commonly used to directly interface with most of the industrial machines, IOT devices or PLC’s.
- IOT ready: Embedded support for connecting to IOT devices for bidirectional communication ( written and read data )
- Embedded real-time user messaging: Easily send messages between users or send instant notifications
- Seamless integration: All applications can be embedded in external websites or web applications as iframe content.
- GIS standard: Storage and representation of geographical information, combined with maps rendering support
Process-optimized Line Management Solution with built-in Traceability. Schedule a Free Discovery Session Now!
Together with our solution consultants, discover which modules will help you most, reduce your inventory levels and picking up times or add traceability if required by your important clients -without breaking the bank.