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PRODAC™

World-Class Production Management Information Systems for the mass packaging industries, creating the software layer between the corporate IT function and the manufacturing process, bridging the gap between isolated islands of information.

Each day at your plant a sophisticated suite of automated and semi-automated machinery, diverse personnel and constant flow of raw materials must integrate to produce the many packaging configurations and products your market demands, on time.

That's a tall order.PRODAC™ systems let you deliver.

PRODAC™ systems offer everyone in the plant the production information they need. PRODAC™ acquires production, machine status and quality data from the line and interprets it using product and planning information. Meaningful, intuitive displays and detailed hard-copy reports and graphs highlight the most important current problems and make historical analyses easy.

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Beverage Specific Solution

With years of experience in the beverage industies, PRODAC Systems Ltd have now released a solution specific to that sector. The DrinkSoft system has been designed specially for the beverage industry. The system includes all the functionality of the standard package with several beverage specific enhancements added.

MS Windows™ Environment

Running on a user friendly Windows™ environment, PRODAC™ can exchange data with other plant and corporate systems to provide the complete CIM solution.

Complete Coverage

PRODAC™ is a flexible system providing complete coverage of areas including:

Throughput
Rates
Machine Performance
Material Yields
Line / Machine Stoppages
Fault Analysis
Line Balancing
Dynamic Production Scheduling
Quality Control
Raw Materials

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User Capabilities

By replacing paper and pencil log book production and reporting methods, PRODAC™ gives the user many powerful facilities:

Detect acute problems as they arise
Manage by exception
Automatic recording of all events
Fast discovery of long standing problems
Easy recording, tabulation & retrieval of historical data
Drill down from the "big picture" to see only significant details
Optimise multi-product manufacturing
Track performance over time
Boost over-all productivity
Product to machine down-time correlation
Real time production monitoring
Higher return-on-investment
Exchange data or Add modules for a complete CIM solution
Improve management environment through better communication and continuous benchmarking

Easy to Use

Through the features detailed below, PRODAC™ is quick to learn and easy to use.

Intuitive displays highlight exceptions
Consistent user interface
Menu driven data entry
Simple generation of complex queries
Windows™ help screens

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Why Use PRODAC™

Over 65 lines world-wide
"Off-the-shelf" concept
Delivery in 6 to 8 weeks in low risk stages
Product continuously reflects industry trends through upgrades
Annual maintenance including unlimited hotline modem service

Modular System

Each PRODAC™ system can be an independent module or part of an integrated system with common data base, human interface and recording. Line and Plant Modules include:

Production Performance & Monitoring
Down Time Tracking
Line Supervisor Log & Monitor
Quality Control System
Planning and Scheduling
Raw Materials & Facilities

Down-Time Tracking

The Down-Time Tracking Module helps you get the most from your machines by recording down-time events automatically as they occur. This ensures timely response, accurate records, allows rapid retrieval and in-depth analyses. The features of this module include:

Automated line supervisor log
Real time monitor
Key machine down-time attribution
Analyse per machine and per line
Detailed reports & graphs

Turnkey Service

Canongate has many years experience in the automation of process plant, particularly in the food and beverage industry but more recently also in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

Canongate can provide complete turnkey PRODAC™ packages. With many years experience in a wide range of PLC equipment and in partnership with a number of complimentary organisations, Canongate can carry out and manage all aspects of the project. From initial systems analysis through electrical installation and machine PLC programming to final system programming, training and hand-over, you will have only one company to co-ordinate with..we'll do the rest!