CASE STUDY
Lyco Manufacturing
Lyco Manufacturing implements ShopTalk™
For over thirty years, Lyco Manufacturing has been a leading manufacturer
of high-quality commercial-grade equipment to the food processing industry.
Over this time, Lyco has introduced a number of innovations to food processing
equipment including:
- High-Capacity Blanchers
- Combination Cooker/Coolers
- Pasteurizers
- Root Crop Peelers For Potatoes, Carrots, Beets, Onions
- Snap Bean Equipment — Snippers, Unsnipped Bean Removers, Graders
- Waste Water Screens — Double-Drum
Guardian Business Solutions, Inc., Brookfield, WI. has installed its ShopTalk color touch screen and voice enabled terminals at Lyco Manufacturing, Columbus, WI. The ShopTalk shop floor terminal records personnel, job, machine quantity, part and quality data as well as provides employees with a touchscreen kiosk for retrieving and viewing shop floor resource information such as process sheets, CAD drawings, pictures and set up information.
Lyco Manufacturing, Inc is the maker of innovative commercial
grade food processing systems for vegetables, pasta, poultry, and meat
products. Lyco's state of the art 65,000 square foot manufacturing center
produces extremely high value added, precision food processing machinery
for their customers. In addition, they are a sheet metal and high volume
precision weldment manufacturer for the contract OEM industry.
The ShopTalk system supports a wireless or hardwired ethernet interface,
allowing it to be integrated into existing infrastructures. This Windows-based
PC application is provided on 10.4, 12 or 15-inch touchscreen computers
and wearable computers which lets
production workers and management interact with virtually any ERP and
CAD solution.
The ShopTalk voice enabled terminals are multi-lingual and accepts data
from multiple sources. For recording production and labor data, the terminal
can accept several different types of data entry; including speech recognition,
touch screen, swipe readers, bar code scanners, magnetic stripe cards or
from an on screen keyboard. Integrating machine data collection functions,
such as the recording of machine cycles and malfunctions will be added
in the future.
Lyco's ShopTalk terminals are mounted on movable carts to meet the needs
of their flexible and ever changing work centers. Since the ShopTalk units
are wireless and have battery back up they can be moved and continually
accessed without the need to shut down the systems. Guardian Business Solutions,
Inc. is a leading provider of voice-enabled applications for shop floor
control, production data collection and warehouse productivity.