Overview

Automate your work instructions and increase production

Predator Travelers is a software application that creates, organizes, releases, and documents manufacturing details, processes and work instructions electronically. With the motto "You can only improve what you document," Predator Travelers Manager helps improve manufacturing processes by empowering engineers and shop floor personnel with an interactive method of building and deploying electronic work instructions.

Predator Travelers Manager provides real-time answers to many of manufacturer's toughest questions, including:

• How do we automate JIT (just in time) production of family of parts?
• How do we consistently implement Kaizen methods during the manufacturing process?
• What processes and resources are required to manufacture each part number?
• What if a new process or resource is used, how many part numbers would it effect?
• What tools, cutters, inserts, gauges, fixtures, machines, materials, inspections, etc, are required per traveler number?
• How is outsourced production built? How is outsourced assembly done?
• Are parts being manufactured using the latest revisions, processes and electronic files?
• How are ECNs, engineering change notices, and revisions of manufacturing processes tracked?
• Can setup personnel provide first article feedback to engineering in real-time?
• Can shop floor personnel interactively view the latest traveler/job folder/work order in real-time?
• How do we create and maintain customer specific work instructions?
• How do we achieve or maintain FAA, FDA, ISO 900x, Six Sigma, and OSHA requirements as engineering methods continuously improve?

Answers to all of the above can be solved with Predator Travelers and displayed from any PC with the ability to drill down to any level of detail at any of your manufacturing facilities. For example, a manufacturing engineer in the United States can query the status of a machining process in Mexico and find out the current method and then plan an improved method to be rolled out in the next 3 months. Details are kept indefinitely and current results can be compared with previous methods or processes. Real-time answers leveraged against actual production history are becoming critical as enterprises rely more on their engineering and manufacturing resources as they go global. Answers based on actual manufacturing details facilitate faster decisions and increase productivity for every manufacturer.