Installation of a production monitoring and scheduling system provides production monitoring, job scheduling and quality control all updated in real time, together with full historical reporting.
Linpac Materials Handling, Winsford has recently completed the installation of a Plantmaster production monitoring and scheduling system. The Plantmaster system is connected to 26 injection moulding machines, providing production monitoring, job scheduling and quality control all updated in real time, together with full historical reporting. This project complements the Plantmaster system that has been operating reliably, at Linpac's sister plant in Walsall for the past eight years and replaces a Dextralog monitoring system, which had been in operation at the Winsford plant since 1986.

Barco acquired Dextralog , Blackburn, U.K., in 1989.

Moss Haddad (IT Director for Linpac Mouldings Division) commented, 'Barco have supported us well with our existing projects, so when it came to replacing the Winsford system, Plantmaster was the natural choice, not just because of the long association between our two companies.

Plantmaster provides us with the latest systems technology and is compatible with our IT strategy.

The system had already provided benefits at our Walsall site and compared with other solutions was both flexible and cost effective.' Linpac Materials Handling is a market leader in the field of plastics storage and handling containers.

The Winsford and Walsall operations manufacture a range of re-usable containers that are designed to meet diverse distribution and manufacturing needs.

* About BarcoVision - BarcoVision is one of the five divisions of the Barco Group and is specialized in the development and supply of MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) for the plastics and textile industry.

With over 1000 installed systems worldwide, BarcoVision can proudly call itself market leader.

BarcoVision solutions help customers improve productivity and effectiveness.

* About Barco - Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets.

Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection.