The NELA Page Tracking Software enables targeted tracking of plates during the production process. It can thereby be determined whether a particular printing plate is straight on the conveyor line, in the punching and bending system or in a Plate Sorter at any time.
The printing plates are identified by barcodes on their arrival in the NELA Register Punch Bending or the sorting stacker. After processing a file is created in a shared network directory for each plate that includes the plate's processing status. This information can be evaluated for production control and monitoring. It is thus possible to carry out a targeted tracking of plates during the whole production process. For communication between the bending system and the Page Tracker the devices on a connected through local area network (LAN). Depending on the number of devices connected, a corresponding number of network accesses must be provided by the customer.