Customer: ESAB India Limited

Customer Profile:
ESAB India Limited is part of ESAB group which is owned by Charter International plc. The company employs more than 8,500 persons worldwide. Charter International plc. is listed in the London Stock exchange. ESAB has a strong range of products in Welding and Cutting and has global R&D Centers in Sweden as well as in the US, Brazil and India. ESAB India Limited is owned partly by the ESAB Group is listed on the stock exchanges of Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange in India. ESAB India has established itself as one of the leading suppliers of welding and cutting products in the country. ESAB products are now an integral part of industries like Shipbuilding, Petrochemical, Construction, Transport, Offshore, Energy and Repair and Maintenance.

Business Area:
Barcode scanner interface to Movex ERP

Business Solution:
ESAB India Limited has Movex ERP application running in AS400 server. Part of the application have traditional green screen RPG programs created using the SDA AS400 tools to capture production data. This is not flexible to use in production environment and hence hand held scanners are introduced to capture product data and product location movements. The project involves development of mobile interface to capture scanned data and send this to AS400 Servers.

Environment:
AS400 server with OS/400, Movex Application, Tomcat, Java, Motorola Barcode scanners.