Tracker | MES | GE Digital (2024)

With installations spanning the world, Tracker from GE Digital, part of the Proficy family, is a comprehensive routing, tracking, and order execution management system that helps manufacturers raise productivity and cut costs by monitoring and managing the execution of production orders.

Tracker automates routing and sequencing to accelerate time to market, reduce warranty and recall exposure, and support Lean operations and building right the first time. This proven solution:

• Collects genealogy and traceability data for audit trails and regulatory compliance
• WIP inventory control
• Defect containment
• Hold management
• Substitution management
• Sequence management
• Broadcast
• Coordination across the supply chain to help meet production schedules

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With Tracker, each serialized item that moves through your production or packaging process can be tracked. You get the information you need to optimize your manufacturing process while managing inventory levels and locations, scheduling resources, and routing materials much more effectively and automatically.

• Collects data from many automated sensors and readers, including bar codes, RF tags, and mechanical tag systems
• Maintains detailed data for all jobs in the system, including content, status, location, and production process counts
• Provides routing control of production orders through the production facility
• Facilitates Build to Order / Build to Sequence
• Ensures building it right the first time

With Production Routing and Order Execution Management, Tracker helps manufacturers and suppliers understand real-time sequence requirements and handle situations that occur on the plant floor when the sequence is broken – enabling manufacturers to build right the first time. It helps facilitate a large reduction in WIP inventories along with finished goods inventories while meeting production targets.

• Enables Lean manufacturing
• Collects genealogy and traceability data for audit trails and regulatory compliance
• Enhanced visualization: provides graphic screens to display tracking paths and item information, and reflects production control commands

Better manage inventory, production orders, and routing materials with detailed data using Tracker. This software solution empowers your operators with real-time information and control of their operations to accommodate a variety of production flow adjustments.

• Coordinates the supply chain
• WIP inventory control
• Find critical jobs
• Meet production schedules
• Manufacturing resource utilization

Tracker provides the ability to not only track the real-time location of jobs on the production floor, but can be configured to perform routing logic on the movement of jobs throughout the facility. This unique capability allows manufacturers to manage the manufacturing, routing, and delivery of multiple product components into complex product assemblies.

Keeps cycle counts, repair information, and carrier/container status online; it accommodates different types of carriers and containers within a system, allowing you to track products even when the manufacturing process transforms them.

Tracker delivers a standards-based open ecosystem for superior interoperability and the foundation for IoT. As part of the Proficy family, Tracker reflects GE Digital’s commitment to:

• OPC UA
• MQTT
• ISA 18.2
• ISA 101

With Tracker, you can gain visibility across disparate, disconnected systems as well as a blueprint for manufacturing across enterprise-wide operations for a simpler, reusable manufacturing infrastructure.

Furthermore, through CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA, you gain a powerful, widely-used SCADA system that includes device connectivity (both native and OPC), graphical development, alarm management, marquee and pager interfaces, client management, and much more.

Tracker in Action

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Glimpse the power of GE Digital's Tracker.

This quick demo first shows a body shop subsystem. You’ll see how rules can be configured as well as modified on the fly.

Then, see a paint shop subsystem where you can track components and show movement in real time. Learn how you can apply blocking rules such as car bodies by color and modify blocks on the fly.

A powerful decision-making engine, Tracker is truly as flexible as you require.