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FlexNet Machine Integrator
 

Use FlexNet Machine Integrator to Standardize Machine Integration with Business Processes to Accelerate Real-time Operations and Analytics Data Collection

FlexNet Machine Integrator makes it easy to interface any FlexNet application to a wide range of devices and equipment on the plant floor, enabling a high degree of automation with manufacturing operations across your enterprise. Standardized machine integration across every location – regardless of equipment vendor – helps you to better synchronize manufacturing operations on a global scale.

With FlexNet, you can send commands directly to devices in the warehouse or plant floor including scales, palletizers, conveyors, carousels, cranes, quality measurement devices, machines, DNCs, PLCs, SCADAs, Data Historians, Printers, Bar code and RFID scanners, amongst many other devices. You can also feed data back to FlexNet for monitoring operations, maintaining Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), planning maintenance and other needs.

FlexNet Machine Integrator facilitates the management and monitoring of production equipment at both the facility and organizational level, supporting standardized manufacturing processes.

Capabilities include:

  • Data Acquisition
  • Alarm and notifications management
  • Automatic logging
  • Recurring events management
  • Simultaneous IE sessions
  • Runtime configuration refresh
  • Automatic reconnect
  • Failover server
  • Store and foreword of events with automatic retry

FlexNet Machine Integrator supports standard protocols such as RS 232 and OPC, and can be installed on many types of computers including servers (Win 2000/2003 Server), desktop computers (Win 2000 Prof, Win XP) and portable devices (Win CE 4.1, Pocket PC).