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THE ARCHITECTURE

W-CUBE's technology lets you operate through different ways of connection, lets you flexibly computerize internal and external warehouses. The following diagrams illustrate a possible scenario.

 

Warehouses directly connected to the company's LAN

 

 

Remote warehouses connected via internet

The application has a Client-Server architecture and uses a relational database. The interaction with the company's information system is via web servises, which gaurantee a standard and independent interface.

 

Hardware configuration

 

Server: W-CUBE is available for the following platforms - IBM AS/400, Unix, Linux, Windows IBMzSeries, iSeries, pSeriesUnix, LinuxWindows 2000, 2003.

PC location: accessable from any PC with a common web browser.

Mobile location: use of portable (Tablet PC or industrial PDA) Windows operating devices, with scaners, for barcodes reading, WiFi, GPRS or UMTS connectivity (and a local database).

 

 

 

Application architecture
Functions are devided between the "server" and the "client".

Server

Resides on an application server and provides through a web interface, the system's management functions, warehouse's master data definition, deposit/withdrawal assignment and management, stock display, ect.
Client: can reside on mobile devices (industrial PDA, tablet PC)  and cover all the typical logistics processes features (deposits, withdrawals, transfers, availability queries, adjustments, inventories, etc…). 
Missions

The apllication's logic is based on the "mission" concept. A warehouse mission is a set of movements to be possibly made in sequence against the company's information system's request or the warehouse's specific requirements. It's always about a single warehouse that is assigned to an operator. The assignment may be manual or automatic. The mission may be of deposit, of withdrawal or of transfer between locations. Data allocation (codes, locations, etc...) can be done by reading bar codes or typing keybord; the system is ready for the reading of RFID tags.
Deposit

In accordance to a receiving made on the information system, the material is positioned in an enter area (enter bay).  A new deposit mission is generated, with an automatic proposal of rooms, in which to store the material. The operator can follow the system's instruction or act differently by comunicating it to the system.
Draw

The information system requires, for production or shipping, material from a location W-CUBE manages. The request generates a withdrawal mission to take the goods to the exit bay. The system suggest the rooms from which to get the material, in accordance to programmable logics (LIFO, LEFO etc.).
Other movements

W-CUBE manages many other movements like: receivings, shippings, transfers between rooms, lowering in picking area, manual movements, adjustments, etc.