Scientific Engineering utilises TransLution™ Software to improve stock control

Scientific Engineering (Pty) Ltd is the leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment in Southern Africa. Manufacturing techniques developed over 40 years in the industry have put Scientific Engineering at the forefront of quality and reliability.

Scientific Engineering recently employed Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software into their manufacturing processes. The system is used by stores to issue materials, record shortages and create accurate, real-time reporting for the factory floor.

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Revive Electrical Transformers implements TransLution™ Software to improve business processes

Revive Electrical Transformers (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest manufactures of distribution transformers in Africa, with customers such as Eskom and Botswana Power Computation.

Revive selected Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software to assist them with their business processes. As phase one of the project, Afrisoft has used TransLution™ to automate and improve both the GRV Receiving and Warehouse transfers for Pastel.

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Rhodes Food Group chooses TransLution™ to track production

The Rhodes Food Group’s Fresh Foods division in Groot Drankenstein, Western Cape, produces a range of fresh and frozen meals which are supplied to retails and franchise restaurants.

Rhodes uses TransLution™ to keep track of their production as it happens. Jobs related to products and movement of products in the factory are captured in “real time”, ensuring the values appearing on the ERP software coincide with the physical numbers of the products in the factory.

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Prilla deploys TransLution™ Software to improve stock accuracy

2016-05-Prilla-Press-ReleasePrilla is Southern Africa’s largest independent spinning mill, with a monthly production of approximately a 1000 tons in its Pietermaritzburg operations. The company, founded in 1950, is known for its quality yarns, produced from cotton sourced mainly from Southern Africa.

At the beginning of Prilla’s production process, labels are printed for each cone on a job. The user enters the data required and labels are printed and stuck on the inside of each cone.

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M-Tec Industrial chooses TransLution™ for raw materials tracking and cable theft prevention

M-Tec Industrial (Pty) Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering company, with expertise in the field of energy systems, both on the supply-side and the demand-side. M-Tech specialises in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrated system analyses and optimization applied to the design, construction and commissioning of energy systems.

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New partnership simplifies mobile transactions in rugged environments

Manufacturing and distribution businesses looking for instantaneous fast transactions from the shop floor now have a wider choice of mobile solutions after K3 Syspro announced a unique partnership with software automation expert AfriSoft.

The partnership has made K3 Syspro a key reseller of TransLution™ mobile software for the UK and Europe, adding to its already impressive mobile product range. The product complements K3 Syspro’s existing SYSPRO Espresso product, which was introduced with the recent SYSPRO 7 upgrade.

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Mopani Copper Mine: Mining

TransLution™ Africa was tasked to deploy our manufacturing and warehouse information gathering software, TransLution™, to assist mining managers to accurately report back on all mining operations in real time, at all times and continue to produce quality materials, on time.

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IB McIntyre: MANUFACTURING

At IB McIntyre innovation is a process that involves thinking about their business every day and looking for opportunities to improve. Jonathan Dawson, Commercial Director, says “In today’s world a business must be like a chameleon constantly adapting to changes in the environment.”

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YIELD MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: Food & Beverage

This company manufactures food products on behalf of a leading South African retailer. The products range from
packaged snacks such as muffins and sandwiches through to pre-prepared meals for home consumption. Products of this type have a particularly short shelf life measured in terms of a few days rather than weeks or months.

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SELECTING A SCANNER

Introduction

There are a bewildering array of options available when it comes to selecting the right scanner, and this white paper is intended to help answer some commonly-asked questions.

Mobile Scanners

Mobile scanners are the most popular.  Even though they are more expensive, they offer the greatest flexibility. Mobile scanners can be used either in a batch mode, which means that they can only communicate with a database when physically connected to a PC, or in RF mode—RF (Radio Frequency) scanners effectively act as an additional client on the network and can are constantly connected with the system database. The pros and cons of batch versus RF are outlined separately below.

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