If you have made the decision to upgrade your batching and ingredient system you know there is a major cost in implementation. There is also a cost in custom programming, startup, and training. PRIMS provides an Ingredient Lot and Product Tracking Software that is practicably Out-Of-The-Box with a verifiable Return on Investment.
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The Batch and Lot Tracking Module in PRIMS not only records the batch and ingredient lot numbers but also the process variables, piece weights and other items you wish to record that may effect the batch. Thereby, PRIMS becomes a quality control system to monitor and improve your production process. When you need accurate and easy to use product tracking software, and weighing system software, think of PRIMS by Focus Works
It operates as if you assigned invisible quality control people to follow each batch down the production line with a clipboard. As they follow each batch they record machine settings such as; temperatures, humidity and speeds; icing temperatures, and also piece weights or whatever you have instructed them to record. You can also alert the personnel that the process variables are out of recipe tolerance, because PRIMS has sent down the recipe's process variable settings to the machine's PLCs. When these invisible QC people follow the batch to the packaging equipment they can set the labeling machine to mark the packages with the batch number. The PRIMS system even takes into account that adjacent batches have a percentage of overlap and communicates this to the labeling machines accordingly. You now will be able to track an individual package back to its source batch in seconds, and you will see an improvement in production processes resulting in less cripples and higher quality. When it comes to weighing system software and industrial weighing systems Focus Works has a complete plant automation solution which you can launch with just your hand scaling, and later build it into a complete plant automation system.
Major Scale suppliers can now use PRIMS. Focus Works has completed the integration of the GSE and other major brand Bench Scale controllers to operate with the PRIMS Software. The GSE 665 can be used as a Scale Controller or as a Mixer Operator Station.
"This opens up a whole new market opportunity" said Charles Hayward, Dir of New Business. "Focus Works can now offer the PRIMS Software to the dealer network already selling industrial weighing systems such as GSE products. "We have signed an agreement with GSE for distribution of our PRIMS software to their entire dealer network", said Charles. GSE did not have a comprehensive weighing systems software package to offer let alone software for tracking products, but Focus Works was able to make it possible.
Focus Works has also added the complete dealer network of 400 ACME Scale dealers. Focus Works plans to have integration to all the major bench scale manufacturer's controllers completed by year end, thus tapping into the entire scale distribution market.