Individual reels of wire and cable can be tracked with barcode labels or RFID [Image: Tanner Wire & Cable ]

BellHawk tracking systems are running in several wire and cable manufacturing plants .

Applications

1. Materials

Tracking the receipt, quality assurance inspection, and put away of raw materials including reels and rods of copper, plastic coating materials, and reels of braid.

2. Wires production

Tracking the drawing of copper wires, their twisting, enameling, and coating with colored plastic. This includes tracking the lot number and manufacturers of all the materials used for each reel of wire as well as who worked on it and what machines they used.

3. Cable assembly

Tracking the twisting, braiding, jacketing, and armoring of single and multi-core cables. This includes tracking the all the materials used in the manufacture of each reel of finished cable as well as who worked on it and what machines they used.

4. Shipment

Tracking the shipment of finished reels of cable, as well as lengths cut from spools of finished cable, to customers.

5. Rework and scrap

Tracking scrap and rework, including recycled scrap and non-conforming materials to be returned to suppliers. This includes capturing reason codes for statistical analysis.

6. Unit costing

Tracking the unit cost of each reel of intermediate and finished wire and cable including the cost of materials, labor and equipment.

7. Material and product status

Tracking the status of raw, intermediate and finished goods, as well as the status of production jobs, work-in-process, and customer orders, in real-time.

8. Quality assurance

Tracking the quality assurance testing of intermediate and finished cables.

Units of measure

• BellHawk tracks materials in multiple units of measure, enabling the lengths on reels of wire or cable to be measured by weighing the reels.
• BellHawk can also track consumption of copper by the pound or Kg and the production of wire and cable by the foot or meter.

Manufacturing Execution & Warehouse Management

BellHawk combines the functionality of an integrated warehouse management system plus a manufacturing execution system with a special emphasis on real-time inventory and work-in process tracking.

Track & Trace

• BellHawk is especially focused on performing materials tracking and traceability that meets the requirements of standards such as those set ISO, the aerospace and automotive industries.
• BellHawk meets the requirement for software to track the manufacture of wire and cable destined for use in medical and defence applications.
• BellHawk will also track hazardous chemicals and environmentally sensitive waste.