Optimum planning and parameterisation of your filling line
SitePilot Line Management puts the coordination of the entire filling and packaging process from a central position into your hands – from the definition of the production route based on the order to the labelling of the pallets.
Line Management provides a continuous flow of information, from production planning right through to the order for the line and individual machine. To do so, the software considers your line to be a coherent system with production orders but not a row of isolated individual machines.
At a glance
With Line Management you can
- optimally coordinate and process all orders in the filling and packaging area.
- reduce manual intervention, as the system takes over communicative and monitoring tasks.
- integrate label printers and coding devices into the line in order to automatically print important product information and best-by dates.
How Line Management works
- Processing of individual orders with different batch sizes and short reaction times
- Online routing: Changes the route of the product within the line while the order is already in progress
- Ends orders based on efficiency (precise to the tank/bottle or number of units)
- Validates the materials used for optimum trackability
- Supplies all lines and machines involved in the order (including printers and coding devices) with specific parameters
- Standardised interface for the connection of any third party machine
- Organises highly flexible production lines, even over multiple lines (for different products or routes)
Our standard solution: Full version of Line Management
The full version of Line Management contains the following software modules*:
- Order Management
- Order Execution
- Material Management (incl. Material Management app [MM App] for scanners)
- Reporting
* Without licence for third-party machines
MM App running on a scanner (illustration is an example).
Efficiency
- Guides and supports order processing
- Controls and automates the material requests
- Prevents material mix-ups
- Reduces manual intervention
- Automates the adjustment of label printers and coding devices
Efficiency
- Guides and supports order processing
- Controls and automates the material requests
- Prevents material mix-ups
- Reduces manual intervention
- Automates the adjustment of label printers and coding devices
Flexibility
- Provides support to achieve optimum order co-ordination and processing, even in order changes
- Makes a flying changeover possible
- Simplifies route selection
- Optimises the cleaning effort required
Flexibility
- Provides support to achieve optimum order co-ordination and processing, even in order changes
- Makes a flying changeover possible
- Simplifies route selection
- Optimises the cleaning effort required
Reliability
- Supports different batch sizes and frequent order changes
- Makes short reaction times possible
- Reduces product and material losses
- Avoids mistakes during night and weekend shifts
- Allows batch-specific recording and tracking
Reliability
- Supports different batch sizes and frequent order changes
- Makes short reaction times possible
- Reduces product and material losses
- Avoids mistakes during night and weekend shifts
- Allows batch-specific recording and tracking
Benefits
Speed
The Line Management summarises several orders and you benefit from reduced product change-over, conversion and cleaning times.
Quality assurance
Line Management helps to reduce your fault potential to a minimum and raise your quality and efficiency to a maximum level.
Saving production costs
You optimise your consumption of resources by requesting all processing and operating materials always at the correct time.
Line availability
You benefit from maximum capacity utilisation of your line through parallel order processing, batch aggregation and order and batch changes on-the-fly.
User-friendliness
Line Management convinces due to its clear operator guidance and a reduced manual workload.
Product reliability
The software exactly records the production processes for each batch. You can exactly trace back each individual batch, even within quite complex product lines.