eAFK - Oerlikon Barmag - Oerlikon Textile

Plant Operation Center
POC – Plant Operation Center – is the all-embracing
workfl ow management system from Oerlikon Textile.
It is designed to detect and optimize the production
processes within a production stage, e.g. spinning,
or overall production stages – starting with the raw
material up to the end product.
Today, companies are confronted with challenges on all
fronts: market requirements are becoming increasingly
diffi cult to plan, pressure on margins is growing and the
production environments of dynamic companies are
becoming ever more complex. Within companies, data
The POC creates transparency - the “Job Reports”
module (Bild TEX JobReport1.tif)
The POC Job Reports gives us an up-to-date and exact
summary of all manufacturing jobs in the line. The summary
includes information on both, complete manufacturing jobs
and those still running. These informations are refreshed with
each doff and for each package, respectively. Consequently,
they are very precise at any time. The corresponding views
show the current information per job, per machine and per
position. As an option the POC interface to ERP can be used
to forward the data of already fi nished manufacturing jobs to
a customer ERP system.
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transparency, integrated processes and effi cient resources
planning are becoming success factors.
The POC connects the production hall with the
management and creates the link between the ERP system
and the control center. The various POC modules offer
you the ideal tools to further increase the productivity and
effi ciency of your systems. The software is modular, allowing
you to create a customized system from the POC modules
that is tailored to your precise requirements and that can be
expanded at any time.
The POC simplifi es the workfl ow - the “Recipe
Management” module (Bild TEX Recipe Management.tif)
The POC Recipe Management provides a central plant wide
management of recipes. With the POC Recipe Management
machine settings can be stored and transferred to recipes.
Those recipes can be archived, printed, validated, edited,
and then downloaded back to any machine connected. The
Recipe Management automatically checks, if the desired
set of information matches the physical arrangement. The
POC Recipe Management has to be part of the system, if a
connection to ERP (e.g. SAP) systems will be implemented,
as it is the interface between an order/offering system and
the real process settings for the machines.