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Hardware
NEXCAP® offering:
The XD RFID Tool Cart is a smart mobile tool cabinet equipped with RFID to perform automated inventory of your tools. Based on high-performance RFID technology, the XD Tool Cart provides an accurate management and tracking of your tools: access control, check in/out, real-time inventory, calibration date traceability and many more.
Challenges
Tool control is a major challenge in Aerospace and MRO industry: tool inventory, audits, non-compliance, FOD (Foreign Object Damage) or FME (Foreign Material Exclusion). Each year, tools left behind or lost during assembly or maintenance activities account for 30% of civil incidents and constitute a significant breach of safety. Poorly organized tool tracking can cause a significant loss of productivity: borrowing and return of tools, monitoring of stock and calibration dates, etc. are time-consuming and costly activities.
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Features
- Operation: Connected (On-premises client server or SAAS cloud server) / Stand Alone
- Alerts: Sound / Visual (3-colour LEDs)
- Server connection: Ethernet / Wi-Fi (optional)
- Traceability capacity: Up to 400* RFID tagged materials
- Autonomy (without AC power): Presence of a built-in inverter, only for the European market, 30 to 45 mins depending on use
- External specifications: Access control by HF RFID badge reader (and/or PIN code), USB socket on front panel, 15’’ industrial touch screen, modular drawers (4 to 8 drawers; usable heights: 50 mm and/or 150 mm), manual unlocking of drawers in the event of a power cut, 1D / 2D optical reader (optional)
- Configuration of drawers (large drawers always positioned at very bottom of roller cabinet):
- Configuration No. 1: 4 large drawers
- Configuration No. 2: 3 large drawers + 2 small drawers
- Configuration No. 3: 2 large drawers + 4 small drawers
- Configuration No. 4: 1 large drawer + 6 small drawers – Solution used in over 80% of cases
- Configuration No. 5: 8 small drawers
- Smart foam (optional): enables detection of small metal tools that cannot be RFID tagged (up to 80 tools per smart foam and 1 smart foam per rollet cabinet)
- Interior layout: Load capacity per drawer: 30 kg, Foam organizers (optional)
- Software: NEXCAP® Embedded (cabinet), Web Client NEXCAP® (remote workstation)
- Services: Installation and configuration, Installation of radio-frequency identification tags on existing tools
- Compliance: CE and FCC
- Voltage: 220V-240V / Current: 2A
* under nominal environmental, marking and layout conditions / depending on tool size and overall dimensions
To manage which materials?
- Management of hand tools: Wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers etc.
- Management of specific portable tools: Riveters, pneumatic guns, riveting clamps, ADU, etc.
- Management of calibrated tools or requiring maintenance: Torque wrenches, etc.
Profits
- Quality: automated tool management (inventory, calibration, maintenance)
- Productivity: reduced tool search time (-30%)
- Regulatory: safeguarding of access to tools (loan traceability)
- Safety: mitigation of risks associated with tool loss (FOD/FME)
- Smart access control: The XD Roller Cabinet only allows access to its content to authorized persons with an RFID badge. Once identified by their RFID badge, the user can easily access the roller cabinet to borrow or return one or more tools. An advanced locking system prevents manual opening of the drawers. Pin code access is also available (in addition to or as replacement for the badge system).
- Accurate, automated inventory of roller cabinet contents: Once the XD Roller Cabinet drawers are locked, an automated content inventory is conducted in 10 seconds. Every tool movement is tracked and time-stamped (Who, What, When, Where) in order to effectively combat the risks associated with tool loss (FOD/FME). Thanks to the benefits of RFID technology, you have a precise and accurate real-time view of your tool inventory, locally or remotely, at any time.
- Automatic tracking of Calibration and Maintenance dates: If an abnormal event is detected, the XD Roller Cabinet automatically forwards the alerts to the user interface and to the supervision station. This enables the user to automatically track the calibration and maintenance dates of their tools.
- Remote supervision: The XD Roller Cabinet enables accurate monitoring of tool movements (loans/returns, frequency of use, dispatch for maintenance, etc.). This monitoring is available in the form of activity reports which can be consulted remotely via NEXCAP®.
Description des modules de NEXCAP®:
Things management, pour connecter facilement tous les objets :
- Services d’enregistrement
- Services de mise à jour
- Gestion des autorisations
- Service de monitoring
- Gestion native de tous les périphériques Nexess (XL, XD, NexcapMat, etc)
Data Share :
- API REST reference : Web services REST
- Service de notifications et d’alertes
- Module de rupture de protocole et format de transformation
- Adaptateurs REST vers : SOAP, JMS, MQTT, COAP
- Services d’import / export CSV
Core Platform :
- API REST reference : Web services REST
- Mobile SDK : outils de synchronisation et proxy
- Mobile SDK : pour développement mobile “offline”, (power edge computing)
- Middleware SDK : extensions, pour enrichir la plateforme
Interface WEB
- Tableaux de bord
- Cartographie
- Fiche de traçabilité unique
- Rapports temps réel et historique : inventaires, contrôles, activités
- Administration : objets, localisations, droits d’accès, utilisateurs, profiles, ordres de travail
- Export
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