UP trace received, on November the 25th, from Luxembourg Economy Minister M. Jeannot Krecké, the mention “On the way to Excellence”, following its participation to the 2011 Luxembourg Award for Quality.

Among the strong points of the company underlined by the MLQ (Mouvement Luxembourgeois pour la Qualité) are the following:

• good organization (well thought out and well managed)
• very good presentation due to the management’s involvment for a federating and coherent project
• good level of formalization
• R&D: sustained relations with associated partners, which is a good approach for the development of new innovating ideas.

Beyond a really appreciated award for its team, this recognition confirms UP trace as a Service company with as first aim the continuous quality and reliability of the solutions offered.

A nice encouragement to keep at it!

Established since the 1980’s in Virton (south of Belgium), the Groupe François (Recybois-Paletterie François-Wood Log) was initially specialized in wooden pallets, boxes and made-to-measure packages production.

As planks production unit, Recybois is a sawmill supplied by local woods. Produced planks are transferred by bundles to the pallets manufacturing unit, Paletterie François. Wood Log is the logistics entity of the group.

With a very important stock of diverse high-turnover pallets, this booming company can ensure just-in-time deliveries for its customers. The whole of the company’s workshops allows a production capacity of more than 10.000 pallets a day.

Paletterie François is certified ISO9001, ISMP15 and EPAL.

Since 2006, a step forward is covered with the start of a combustible pellets production unit (Badger Pellets) by using sawdusts from Recybois. Exclusively made of coniferous trees from south Belgium’s woods, this 100% natural combustible answers to the highest standards for private stoves and boilers.

Problematics and solutions
From 2008, expansion of the company and sectorization of its numerous activities in 3 different units convinced the management for the necessity of a complete system to trace goods and flows; the final goal of this operation was to ensure a perfect visibility on the cost prices of produced pallets.

After the first steps of ERP acquisition (Dynamics AX) and network infrastructure installation for the binding of all the sites of the group, it’s to UP trace that the next crucial steps were confided:

1. barcode labels and SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) stock management
2. production’s data capture and printing solution at the sawmill and the palettery, making it possible to exchange data with the AX ERP.

In practice
From now on, each plank bundle produced at Recybois is identified with a SSCC label involving all its specific informations, which are brought on along the whole production scheme. At that point already, flows security is managed by UP trace’s middleware by generating a file imported once a day or in real time to the AX ERP, correlated to a Customer order at Recybois and a Supplier order at Paletterie François .

This intends to :

• avoid multiple counts of a single bundle
• ensure all the bundles are scanned
• ensure that the produced items are registered in all the various entities of the group.

As soon as they get out of the sawmill, planks bundles are identified by a label bearing a SSCC code containing the totality of data available for that bundle (i.e. dimensions, quantities, wording…), which are scanned and stocked in the ERP. At every handling, a mere scan of these labels by carists allows UP trace ‘s middleware to modify the goods status in the ERP, generating back a new SSCC, quantity, depot, user, date, hour… and recording it.

All along the pallets production line is UP trace’s middleware clearly ensuring, in real time and double sense, a link between the ground activity and the data existing in the ERP. It determines with precision the exact amount of planks used for a precise production, involving registered production errors, employees clocking data and other manufacturing costs.

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Moutarderie Bister produces since 1926 the famous mustard L'Impériale and high quality seasonings. In this familial company, 3 Bister generations succeeded in heading the business and since more than 15 years now, Fabienne Bister manages the 2 factories of Jambes, in Belgium, and Saint-Thibault, in France.

Bio-certified seasonings complete the range since 1999; a Research & Development department works on new projects in the Bio-field.

Bursting with projects, Moutarderie Bister moves with a constant care for quality and alimentary regulations in force. In that framework, the decision to equip production lines with a highly reliable but easy-to-use coding system, adapted to a familial-type company, led the management to turn towards UP trace’s turnkey advices.

Convinced by an on-site demonstration, decision-makers rapidly approved UP trace’s recommendations and both sites were successively equipped with CITRONIX Ci1000 deviated inkjet printers.

The strong points which appealed to the management for such a kind of production and needs are:

• low costs of ink consumption
• low costs of printing and maintenance
• simplicity and intuitivity (accessibility to operators without important trainings)
• printing on 4 lines
• printhead self-cleaning system
• 2-years warranty.

Today results are clear: the proven technological reliability of the solution added to UP trace’s pro-active care for consumables stock management allows the mustardery to spare time and to serenely devote to its numerous future projects.

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Each year, thousands of companies lose in effectiveness because of the poor quality and the insufficient availability of their data. And one knows bad information inevitably leads to financial losses…
Given this assessment, UP trace has developed Ariane to optimize your data management.

Positioned at the heart of UP trace’s turnkey traceability concept, Ariane by UP trace is a middleware which manages production and logistic data that come from your integrated operating system (ERP), in order to drive your automatic data capture and printing applications.

The results? Ariane lets you identify products, boxes and pallets with faultless efficiency and above all to feed the field-collected data to your DP system.

In other words, by serving as link between your physical operations and ERP system, Ariane lets you trace each and every movement in your work and production flows in order to guarantee information quality in line with increasingly demanding standards.

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From now on, Sick was chosen by UBScode to equip its Label Print & Apply systems bearing an optional barcode verifier. Really interesting news for the industrial sector!

The reasons are double:
1)  Sick’s reknown robustness and reliability
2)  worldwide distribution of the brand, i.e. warranty for a good after-sales service.

This choice was totally approved by UP trace’s engineers as it backs up the high value added image of UBScode’s material and as Sick is, just like UBS, an UP trace privileged partner.

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With superior performance and affordable price, these 2" or 4", 203 or 305 dpi, Direct Thermal/Thermal printers are the best in their range.

The SATO CG Series models are delivered stock out of the box with competitive emulations onboard and optimal interfaces (built in USB is standard). 

CG2 Serie:

• Up to 2" Wide Printing
• 203 or 305 dpi Print Resolution
• 4 MB Flash Memory
• Thermal Transfer and Direct Thermal
• Multiple Codepage Support
• Competitive Emulation Options
• Easy Maintenance
• Anti-Microbial Casing (for clinical use)

CG4 serie:

• Up to 4" Wide Printing
• 203 or 305 dpi Print Resolution
• 4 MB Flash Memory
• Thermal Transfer and Direct Thermal  
• Multiple Codepage Support
• Competitive Emulation Options
• Easy Maintenance

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Very last generation of the Siemens controllers, Simatic RF670R centralizes with an increased suppleness all the information coming from your RFID data collecting system (tags, antennas) and ensures an optimal reading in the most delicate conditions.

Advantages

• Flexibility et modularity thanks to the compact shapes and to the shifted antennas
• Robust and industrial components
• Reliable selective individual or common (group) identification (optional)
• High reading speed to ensure a secure reading during fast movements
• Flexible system integration through PROFIBUS, PROFINET or Ethernet
• Uniform system environment during the whole process chain
• Possibility for a direct identification on the product
• Direct and easy integration with Ariane by UP trace

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