• A fully user-configurable shop floor data collection (SFDC) system.
  
• Allows rapid development of data collection systems.
  
• Supports a wide range of fixed or portable data collection terminals.
  
• Runs on Microsoft® Windows or VAX / VMS platforms.
  
• API available for advanced users.
  
• No previous experience of SFDC necessary.
  
• Comprehensive consultancy, training and support available.
  

A user-configurable data collection system that works with fixed, portable or radio-linked terminals....

Data Collector™ allows you to rapidly and easily install, configure, operate and manage a real time computer-based data collection system. You do not have to understand traditional computer programming languages or techniques to successfully operate your data collection system.

Data Collector lets you display your prompts and messages at the data collection terminals, collect data from a range of different data collection terminal models, validate the collected information against your criteria (including data collected elsewhere in the system) and store this data in a resilient manner to enable it to be processed by applications such as time and attendance, shop floor material movements, production recording, machine downtime analysis, inventory management, warehouse control etc. These applications may be other modules in the Enfield Collector™ product range, existing application packages, or user written applications.

The benefits to be gained from using Data Collector are:

• User configurable and installable. There is no need to utilise skilled computer technicians to implement a system.
  
  
• Extremely flexible in both configuration and use. Capable of being configured to suit your specific requirements.
  As the business changes modifications and extensions to the system can be implemented easily, without recourse to computer technicians or external suppliers.
  
  
• It can support and communicate with different types of data collection device on the same system, at the same time. This means that the most appropriate data collection devices (even from different manufacturers) can be used at each location.
  
  
• It is portable across a wide range of computers and operating systems. An additional run time licence is all that is needed to run the same configured system on another host computer.
  
  
• Provides a single data collection front end that handles all different data collection technologies such as bar coding, magnetic stripe, wiegand card, OCR, transponders etc. This flexibility also ensures the support of future technologies as they become available.
  
  
• A resilient system that can provide duplicate back up copies of transactions on the same host computer or across a network.

Data Collector is designed for companies who wish to rapidly implement a data collection system, knowing that it will be flexible enough to cater for future changes in their requirements. All this, without having to understand the processes of real time data capture, the communication protocols of different data collection terminals, the complexities of real time data validation, communication integrity checking, file shadowing and the capability to automatically handle and recover from the failure of data terminals, the communication network or the host computer.