PC-Topp: Excellent Connections to Modern Corrugators
While PC-Topp is a valuable planning tool in a plant where the corrugator allows no on-line connection (or where order progress in conversion is being entered manually), it reaches its highest level of efficiency with direct links to production. Through these links, PC-Topp keeps up-to-date with the order progress, thus becoming the information center for the entire plant.
And planning gets more precise, because the schedules are based on recent and reliable production actuals. The on-line return of production actuals allows for comprehensive statistics, available instantly, without need for manual data entry.
An added benefit is the on-line availability of schedules and order data at the machines, and the transfer of slitter-scorer and knife settings to the corrugator's dry-end controller.
Corrugator Control Program
PC-Topp's Corrugator Control Program serves three purposes concurrently: The Corrugator Monitor permanently displays the situation at the machine, including the current order, the current and average speeds, the last produced run, and the queue of runs waiting to be produced.
It is also the source of real-time information shown throughout PC-Topp, and gets Production Actuals from the machine and uses them to update order progress and Program Memory. The production actuals are made available almost in real time to the host system, no more need for manual production data entry here.
The Transfer of Schedules transmits all required data to the corrugator's dry-end controller, including order data, slitter-scorer and knife settings, and the scheduled linear meters.
The Corrugator Control Program knows the protocols of the leading brands of modern corrugators from Agnati, BHS (also with Witron controllers), Copar, Fosber, Marquip, MHI/Mitsubishi, Peters, SHS/Simon as well as many others.
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