WeaveGate |
Full control over your jacquard looms. |
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WeaveGate is NedGraphics’ solution to control and manage your electronic jacquard looms and link them with your design archive. Track the status of your weave jobs, do effective version management, monitor loom efficiency, capture, store and transfer loom parameters, add information to weave jobs, automatically rearrange harness layouts; WeaveGate provides you with full control and minimizes errors, 24/7.
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WeaveGate can be fully integrated with NedGraphics’ Jacquard Pro and third party solutions. WeaveGate delivers production data to the right jacquard controllers at the right time. The system also allows loom operators to retrieve jobs from the server. When the loom operator modifies production information the adjusted pattern can be merged directly with the original.
WeaveGate enables effective and consistent design management. Current designs can never be overwritten without prior notification. Amendments made on the loom controller can be stored directly in the original database. Corrections are automatically incorporated into the production data the next time it is sent over the network. E-mail notifications can be issued to timely anticipate production flaws or controller availability. WeaveGate can be integrated with any existing planning system.
Titles, for example an article number or client name, can automatically be inserted before or after a weave job. This simplifies order tracking, expedition and prevents you from loosing track.
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Highlights and features |
• Supports all Bonas (s500/600/800), Stäubli (JC4/5/6) and Grosse controllers.
• Only weaveable patterns can be send to the looms.
• Automatic harness conversion: only 1 master card needed.
• Support for Dornier AT II panel and Picanol TP800 dobby looms.
• Create weaveplans for all Stäubli and Bonas jacquards.
• Send a complete package to the controller at once.
• Pre-define cleaning of designs on the controllers.
• Centralized system for all production data (cards).
• Visualize current status of weaving mill in one screen.
• Import weave orders directly from Excel.
• Handle loom parameters per design.
• Automatic card transformations can be applied by using macro functions.
• Improved handling of loom parameters for Stäubli JC-5 / JC-6 format.
• Extended planning including Weave Programs, titles and weft or box motion rearrangements.
• Macro’s definitions allow WeaveGate to modify (part of) the production information just before it is sent to the Jacquard controller. This allows you to tune data to the loom’s specifics.
• Collect loom status information with the Monitoring plug-in.
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Main program with full mill overview.
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10 points why WeaveGate can be beneficial for your company! |
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1. Production data is 24/7 available in the weaving room. WeaveGate makes sure that the production file is available at the jacquard controller at the right time all the time. No more floppy headaches. In combination with DesignCOM, extra technical information can be displayed in the weaving room. For example this can be information from the Design department to weave with special settings or extra remarks from the Planning department.
2. Design department will save time by not having to create multiple production files.
When working with different loom manufacturers and different loom (harness) setups, the design department spends a lot of time making conversions instead of what they do best; Designing! WeaveGate will take away this task from the designers and automatically manages harness conversions and output file formats. The design will always be in the correct format when it arrives on the loom.
3. Automated tasks on the controller with Weave Programs.
Weave programs on a jacquard controller will automatically weave x repetitions of a designs and then switch over to the next design. Between design changes or after x meters woven a small cutting part can be inserted. These fully automated programs can be created with the WeaveGate software and send together with all the needed designs in one package to the jacquard controller.
4. Automatic activation of design or weave programs on the controller. Starting the wrong design on the loom can mean B quality fabric. If there are a lot of design changes on the looms (even with little design changes) there is always a percentage of wrong design startups. By means of a weave ticket barcode scan or predefined planning, WeaveGate can automatically activate the correct design or weave program on the controller during article change taking one step away for the weaver (Weave-Gate does not start the loom).
5. Automated card operations with WeaveGate macros. Production files can be changed on the fly for special actions by the WeaveGate card macros, saving time at the design station or removing tasks from the weavers. A couple of macro examples are:
• Automatically changing selvages based on loom or design types.
• Automatically changing weft box motion sequence based on loom types.
• Weave the design title at the start or end of the design (or both).
• Adding fringes to the start and end of designs.
6. Monitor your weaving room.
Monitor production efficiency based on designs, shifts or looms. Display instantly where you have production efficiency problems. Monitoring data is gathered directly from the jacquard controllers.
7. Faster design changes, latestversions on the controllers.
Changes to designs made in the design studio or changes made to the card directly on the controller will be stored on the central server. The design changes will automatically be transferred to the controllers where the design is present to make sure you always have the latest version of the design on the loom. If a design is running on a loom and changed by the design studio, an email will be send to the responsible person to take actions.
8. Handle loom parameters together with the design.
When sampling your design, certain loom parameters are set to weave the product with a certain quality. These loom parameters can be stored together with the design on the central server and when the design goes onto production looms the loom parameters from the design can be automatically transferred to that loom. This action will save time for the weaver as he can get the machine operational much faster.
9. Incorporate all WeaveGate automated features through the advanced planning module.
Whether using the automated macros, weave programs or activation, these actions can be called automatically from any external planning system. An external planning system could tell WeaveGate which designs, amount of repetitions or for example a customer name at the end that needs to be woven. WeaveGate will create one program package and activate this at the loom when getting an article change signal (barcode or declaration through monitoring).
10. Email notifications to individuals for potential problems.
WeaveGate keeps track of all communication between the server and the controllers and keeps track of the state of the controllers. When a problem does occur WeaveGate will automatically send emails to the person in charge to highlight the problem.
Potential problems can be:
• A design is updated in CAD but running on certain machines.
• A design cannot be send to the loom for certain reasons.
• Controller state is not correct (disk full, etc...).
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