Lexington, South Carolina—September 7, 2017—Cleco® Production Tools, a global leader in manufacturing and delivering world-class production solutions, has launched Cleco Software Solutions, a new streamlined production management software suite for Cleco brand power tools.
Cleco Software Solutions is a scalable software suite that equips managers with critical production data and application management tools, allowing them to make informed decisions and take corrective actions quickly while ensuring quality and avoiding costly errors. The three components to the Software System include TorqueNet, Tightening Parameter Server (TPS) and Dashboard module.
TorqueNet is a data acquisition and archiving system that makes local plant floor data visible anywhere. All data is sent to a single source making critical production information accessible by all roles working with the tightening process on the assembly line.
“One of the benefits of TorqueNet, from a regulatory standpoint, is that the customer has access to an audit trail and is able to see exactly how a widget is built and make sure it’s built to the correct specifications,” said Jon Harris, Global Product Manager, Cleco Software Solutions. “Another added benefit is the access to the parameter change history to see where and what application has been used, along with the maintenance history. Email notifications are sent out when tools are due for maintenance.”
The Tightening Parameter Server (TPS) is a central application management system that enables customers to effectively and efficiently manage their tightening applications from a central location while providing real-time change management. “This allows the engineers to have full control across a plant or over multiple plants,” said Harris. “It also minimizes the opportunity for costly errors that may arise from manually making changes on the production floor.”
In traditional application management, the production manager requires application changes be made physically at the controller on the production floor. “With TPS, engineers have the ability to create and validate changes in a test environment prior to releasing into production and controllers have virtually limitless number of applications stored while ensuring the correct application is being used,” said Harris.
The Dashboard, an add-on-module interconnecting with TorqueNet, allows managers to dive deeper into data. The user specific views enable quick navigation, identification of trends and issues, and transformation of data into actionable information. “Customers are able to create custom views and share data with people to make decisions or take action on,” said Harris. “The predefined views show only what is important to the individual user roles.”
Cleco Software Solutions Production benefits include:
- Data management: Streamline enforcement of access, provisioning, and lifecycle policies.
- Production optimization: Convenient monitoring of use and location of all applications enable managers to easily identify what controllers are subscribing to a given application.
- Error prevention: Change Management capabilities of TPS provides ultimate control over tightening applications being pushed to production.
- Quality assurance: Application archiving and rollback capabilities save application revisions so they can easily be reinstated into production.
“The Cleco Software Solutions provide complete and unified control over content, customizations, users, security and sites,” says Mark Momola, Global Vice President of Marketing, Cleco. “The visibility and traceability features are key for managers to be able to review who, what, why and when a change was implemented.”
For more information on Cleco’s Software Solutions, visit www.clecotools.com.
Inquiries:
Susan Spalding, Global Director, Marketing Communications: susan.spalding@clecotools.com
About Cleco® Production Tools
Cleco is a global leader in manufacturing and delivering world-class production solutions including DC electric, cordless and pneumatic assembly tools. Cleco provides solutions that enhance user productivity, safety, and comfort.
Cleco was founded in 1894 as Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Cleco’s expertise is the culmination of 120 plus years of delivering assembly tools and systems for a wide range of applications in the automotive, energy, aerospace, and general industries. For more information visit www.clecotools.com.
Cleco is a registered trademark of Apex Brands, Inc. Apex Tool Group is one of the largest worldwide producers of industrial hand and power tools, tool storage, drill chucks, chain, and electronic soldering products. (www.ApexToolGroup.com).