• Machine operators can closely monitor corrugator production without having to stay next to the machine controls.
• No matter where the members of the machine crew are working, everybody can see in advance when the next change of flute type, board grade etc. is due so the team can better prepare for a smooth transition.
• Everybody at the corrugator is immediately alerted to downtimes.
• Supervisors and all staff at the machine can effortlessly get information on corrugator performance with just a glance at the overhead display at all times, without having to leave their workstation.

Customizable Range of Production Figures

There is a wide scope of production information available for displaying with the new feature. The figures and texts to be shown can be easily personalized according to customers’ needs. Some possibilities would be:

• Production Figures of the Current Shift, e.g.
  
  • Current speed
  • Program number, board grade, roll size, flute
  • Total meters produce and average meters per minute for the current run and shift respectively
  • A forecast of meters to produce until the next change of board grade, roll size, or flute type
  • Shift duration
• Production Figures of Previous Shifts
  
  • Shift duration, total meters produced, average meters per minute
• Current Order
  • Order number
  • Customer name
  • Sheet size
  • Quantity
• Downtime or Off-Line Alerts
• Freely Configurable Messages

The displayed information can optionally be toggled in certain intervals, e.g. from production times to produced and scheduled quantities or other information of interest, or even between production figures and announcements or text messages for special occasions like visitors in the plant etc. The interface is available both in portrait and in landscape format.

How to Get the New Extra Large Display

Basically, all you need is a license, an idea of what you want to display, and a large screen. So if you are interested in taking advantage of the new possibilities provided by this functionality, please get in touch with us:

Contact the PC-Topp Team

Large High Definition television screens can be used as inexpensive giant PC monitors. Take one such screen and add it to an older PC hidden somewhere in the wings, and you have a powerful way to present live information that can be read from a distance, like the monitors showing departures and arrivals in airports.

In PC‑Topp, “Monitor” is the term we use for displays showing live information on a permanent basis, with no user interaction.

Our HD TV Monitor Framework makes it easy for us to design custom displays like the ones shown in the examples here, at a low nominal license fee. Choose one of the existing designs “as is”, or have it modified to fit your needs and ideas, or create screens following your own ideas.

Examples:

• Corrugator
  Show current speed, meters remaining to next order / grade / roll size / flute type change.
• Palletizer
  Show orders arriving from conversion along with required pallet type and size.
• Sales Office
  Show TGV Machine Load, critical or late orders, message of the day in alternating screens.
• Supervisor Office
  Show Plant Summary with production progress and events on all machines.
• Shipping
  Show Trucks being loaded along with their loading lists.

Any production data or other relevant information can be displayed on-screen, depending on your requirements.

The Corrugator Performance screen is the first interface in the HD TV monitor series; more implementations of this line of product are scheduled to follow soon.

If you have wishes and ideas concerning a new monitor screen tailored to your specific purposes please let us know via e-mail or phone.

Both the PC-Topp Label Designer and the PC-Topp Label Printer have been reengineered to support Windows Vista and higher. Besides, both applications now offer several functional enhancements but maintain full compatibility with their predecessor version.

PC-Topp Label Designer

PC-Topp Label Printer

The PC-Topp Label Printer lets administrators view and modify pallet labels from production history in case a pallet label has been damaged or a label’s data needs to be modified.

The application has been refined to no longer block the print server during startup and loads much faster than before.

The Label Printer’s new search function makes it easy to locate all pallet labels printed for any order. Likewise, in the detailed label view (opened by clicking any label in the overview) the pallet label data can be searched by field name and content in an Excel-like interface.

Besides, the Label Printer allows displaying the different label designs to be printed for the selected print job (e.g. additional labels to be printed at first for each pallet or after the printout for all pallets). And what’s more, you can now create pallet label designs including sample data from any existing label.

For better usability some small modifications have been made to the PC-Topp.NET reports.

Easier Access to Personalized Reports

Besides the standard PC-Topp reports, the PC-Topp.NET Statistics page now shows all your personalized reports, too. At the bottom of the toolbox you will find a new section “Personalized” containing your customized reports.

Send Reports by E-Mail

If you need a PC-Topp.NET report outside of PC-Topp or on a different computer you can now easily e-mail it to your own address right from the page that generates the report (instead of downloading it to the workstation’s hard drive).

On the Reports page, below the usual links for print-out or output as an Excel file, additionally a link saying “Send to (user name)” can now be displayed which sends the selected report to the address provided in your PC-Topp.NET user profile.

If you want to use this feature please contact us so we can configure it for you.

The Quality Check Shift Report which used to be available only in the Statistics section of PC‑Topp.NET is now accessible at the Machine Terminal, too. It is displayed in a new sub-tab of the Shift Report tab.

Thus the machine operator can now view information on the results of all quality checks during the current shift right at the machine.