Antares Vision Group, a global provider of hardware and software Track & Trace solutions and inspection systems and smart data management, has made a series of enhancements to its Global Tracking System software. The new version features tightened data integrity protection (DIP), and more easily integrates with off-brand Levels 1 & 2 serialization equipment.  

Antares Vision Group’s Global Tracking System is the heart of various products comprising the company’s track & trace solutions portfolio. Operating on a server, its primary function is to allocate work orders to production lines. Once production has commenced, AV Group GTS receives data from all lines as well as statistics, serialized codes, and audit trails. This information is stored in the site database, where it is accessible via the GTS User Interface.

GTS is capable of operating both on-premises and through the cloud, the system manages product recipes, associates printing layouts and assimilates camera formats based on specific products. With virtually no batch size limitations, it oversees serialization rules per all current global regulations (sequential, alpha-numeric, random, etc.). It can also store multiple recipes per production line, an advantage for companies serving countries with disparate track & trace regulations. 

Depending on customer needs, AV Group GTS can receive serialization numbers from Level 4, or locally generate serial number pools independent of Level 4. The system can communicate with multiple Level 4-5 cloud systems, making it capable of interfacing with both in-house brand owners and external contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs).

Upon receiving production data from an Enterprise Resource Planning system, AV Group GTS seamlessly allocates work orders to production lines. Utilizing a centralized configuration repository for all line equipment, it also allows data to be loaded from other applications manually where required. At a work order’s completion, AV Group GTS returns production data and statistics to the ERP. 

Quality control is simplified due to the full separation between Level 2 and Level 3 setups, and the ability to run on two different software versions. According to the company, recipe management with all-line setup information for the PLC, vision system and printer information results in decreased production changeover time, and reduced waste from human error during manual changeover.

In addition, AV Group GTS’ centralized storage helps guarantee consistency across all production lines, providing change control management of the recipe data and simplification of label management and validation.