V2trace

Manufacturing traceability

Trace any serial or lot from supplier receipt to shipped pallet in minutes.

And keep the line recording when the network or the server goes down. V2trace is set up at commissioning, not custom-coded, and your production data stays in your plant.

Normal

Autonomous

Crisis

Screenshot · one serial traced from receipt to shipment

A real V2 screen with demo data. Added once the demo data set is built.

Built from the plant floor

Every design decision answers a failure a plant has already lived through.

V2trace was built by a maintenance and controls engineer from paper and pulp and then automotive, who spent years keeping traceability systems alive after their vendors moved on.

A data feed goes silent, and nobody notices for two months.

V2trace watches the data itself. A commissioned feed that stops delivering raises an alert, even while every service looks healthy.

A network outage means a shift was never recorded.

Each line keeps recording on its own zone server and syncs up exactly once when the link returns. Nothing to re-enter.

A serial number gets typed in as “THREE”.

Serials are checked against each product’s format the moment they’re entered, so junk never becomes a unit.

An alarm fires on good parts until people stop trusting the screen.

Limits, rules and thresholds are set per plant at commissioning and adjusted by your people, not buried in code.

Three operating modes

Traditional MES stops recording when its server stops. V2trace doesn’t.

Normal

Everything is connected. Every line’s results reach the plant server as they happen.

Autonomous

The plant server can’t be reached. Each zone keeps its lines running and recording on its own: scans, results and queue moves. Every record syncs up exactly once when the link returns.

Crisis

The zone server is down too. The operator panel takes over order scanning and badge login, and a person decides when to enter it.

What it does · 15 jobs, one platform

One record from the receiving dock to the shipped pallet.

For any serial or lot: where it came from, every scan and recorded result along the way, at which station, and where it went.

Traceability and genealogy

Every serial and lot, with its assembly genealogy, traced from supplier receipt to shipped pallet.

Getting the data in

Results from 12 equipment protocols and 14 PLC export formats, recorded at the process where they happened.

Keeps running through outages

Scans, machine and inspection results, and work-in-progress queue moves are captured at each line’s own zone server, so a line keeps recording when the network or the plant server goes down.

Production and work in progress

Routings, work-in-process queues, a line log, and Andon calls from the floor.

Orders and fulfilment

Orders and scheduling through to shipping and returns, entered here or fed from your ERP.

Material lifecycle

Receiving, warehouse, staging and shipping, with holds that stop a shipment going out.

Quality

Holds, rework and scrap, investigations and corrective actions, audits, SPC, MSA, PFMEA and hand-entered inspection results.

Tool life

Tool definitions, the tool crib, life counting with warnings, and the product a failed tool touched.

Recipes and machine programs

Approved recipes and CNC programs delivered through the operator panel, with a record of exactly what was sent.

Alerting

Every service, device and data feed is watched. Problems reach people through Andon boards, overhead paging and signage.

Maintenance and assets

Work orders, the asset register and gauge calibration.

People

People, badges and roles, with permissions for every action. Training and safety records are next.

Integrations

ERP, HR, warehouse, maintenance and fire-panel systems connect through V2trace’s own APIs.

Corporate view

One read-only view across many plants. Production data leaves a plant only when your own corporate system pulls it.

The platform

Logins and permissions, certificates, nightly backups, and a local AI assistant that never approves a record.

Works with what you already own

Connects to the equipment already on your floor.

PLC tag lists import straight from 14 vendor export formats, including Rockwell, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, Beckhoff, GE, CODESYS and CNC controllers. ERP, warehouse, maintenance and HR systems connect through V2trace’s own APIs.

OPC UA

Modbus TCP

Modbus RTU

EtherNet/IP

Mitsubishi MC

MQTT

MTConnect

Haas CNC

Mettler scales

Serial devices

Network barcode readers

Pro-face HMIs

Screenshot · importing a PLC tag list at commissioning

A real V2 screen with demo data. Added once the demo data set is built.

The pilot

What a pilot at your plant would measure.

One line or cell, on modest hardware. We measure these before V2trace goes in, then again after go-live, so the results are your numbers rather than our claims.

Trace time

How long it takes to trace one lot forward and backward.

Scrap, FPY and OEE

Scrap rate, first-pass yield and overall equipment effectiveness on the pilot line.

Paperwork

Hours each week spent on paperwork and audit preparation.

CAPA cycle time

How long a problem takes to go from first anomaly to closed corrective action.

Lost data

How often the line stops recording when the network or a server goes down.

Standards

Modelled on ISA-95, and honest about coverage.

V2trace models the plant the way ISA-95 does and catalogues 35 standards. Where coverage has actually been checked, it records a signed-off attestation for that release — 12 so far — instead of a blanket claim.

ISA-95 / IEC 62264

ISA-88

IEC 62443

IATF 16949

ISO 9001

ISO 13485

ISO 22000

V2trace is in active development on a working test plant with Mitsubishi and Allen-Bradley PLCs, a Pro-face operator panel, a Keyence scanner and a Mettler scale.