We got no choice!

Artificial Intelligence or AI is a superb choice when the alternatives are few.

Pronto Progress has been developing methods to get data into the business ERP for several decades; early days of written forms and punched cards, CRTs, mobile applications, MES, IoT and now AI vision.

A vision system is effective in labor intensive shops or where tooling is older generation CNC or single axis. MES (Manufacturing Execution System) does a fine job of reporting transactions and will not interfere with RS vision.

Epicor® Kinetic AI: the logical progression in Revolutions Soluition for ETO, MRO and FSO businesses.

A vision system will eliminate and consolidate many non-value-adding jobs in a labor-intensive shop. Add appropriate output device(s) (a large monitor) and your Epicor® Kinetic AI can close the loop and become self-expediting and self-scheduling.

Wouldn’t it be great if your employees could spend more of their time doing their actual job?

Every day, your business sees continuous activity.  Employees clock in, do work and clock out.  Materials are received, stored, and consumed.  Parts are produced and shipped.  IT people do whatever it is that they do.

Your employees are probably very familiar with the parts, materials, and tools they need to do their job, but your system doesn’t know anything about people or things.  It only knows how to move numbers around and spit out reports.  It is useless without constant, meticulous, and accurate input.  From your employees.  The ones who are supposed to be producing stuff.

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What if your system was able to automatically keep track of the real-world people and things unique to YOUR business?

Pronto’s Vision System brings Industry 4.0 technology to your business by using high-definition cameras to recognize real-world people and things.  Repetitive activities which were once time-consuming and prone to human error are now seamlessly automated.

Let Pronto help you unleash the power of smart object recognition and deep learning to take your business to the next level and give you a marked advantage over your competitors!

Sounds fancy, but what does it actually do?

The Vision System recognizes physical objects, labels, logos, pictures, barcodes, and/or any combination of methods to identify and keep track of things that flow through your workplace.  It also recognizes faces to keep track of people in your workplace.

  • Shipping/Receiving – With the Vision System, receiving transactions are automatically created when items are unloaded from a truck. Shipping transactions are automatically created when items are loaded into a truck.
  • Clocking In/Out – With the Vision System, any time an employee enters the building or shop floor, they are automatically clocked in. When they leave, they are automatically clocked out.
  • Pulling Inventory – With the Vision System, your employees will always know where to find the parts/materials they need, even if they’ve moved.
  • Keep track of tools and supplies – The Vison System will automatically keep track of the tools and consumable supplies (such as drill bits) taken from the tool bin and who is using them.
  • Scrapping – The Vision System automatically keeps track of rejected parts and materials.
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How does all this technology translate into greater productivity?

Every business is unique, and every business has their own variations of standard business processes like shipping and receiving.  We get it.  Having acknowledged that, let’s look at a few generic examples of how the Vision System can help you to get more out of your underutilized employees:

Receiving before the Vision System

  1. A forklift driver unloads a pallet from a truck.
  2. The forklift driver places the pallet in the receiving area.
  3. The receiving clerk checks the pallet and verifies the quantity.
  4. The receiving clerk manually logs the goods receipt transaction in the system.
  5. A forklift driver picks up the received pallet and stores it in a bin.
  6. The forklift driver manually logs the inventory movement transaction in the system.

Receiving with the Vision System

  1. A forklift driver unloads a pallet from a truck and stores it in a bin.
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Shipping before the Vision System

  1. A forklift driver removes materials from a bin.
  2. The forklift driver manually logs the inventory movement transaction in the system.
  3. The materials to be shipped are stacked onto a shipping pallet.
  4. The stacker manually logs the stackoff transaction in the system.
  5. The forklift driver moves the remaining inventory back to a bin.
  6. The forklift driver manually logs the inventory movement in the system.
  7. The completed pallet is shrink-wrapped and loaded onto the truck.
  8. The shipping clerk manually logs the shipment transaction in the system.

Shipping with the Vision System

  1. A forklift driver removes materials from a bin.
  2. The materials to be shipped are stacked onto a shipping pallet.
  3. The forklift driver moves the remaining inventory back to a bin.
  4. The completed pallet is shrink-wrapped and loaded onto the truck.

Producing things before the Vision System

  1. The employee performs an action.
  2. The employee manually logs the action in the system.
  3. The employee performs another action.
  4. The employee manually logs the other action in the system.

Producing things with the Vision System

  1. The employee performs an action.
  2. The employee performs another action.
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