TraceMaster helps manufacturers maintain parent-child assembly traceability records that may support internal quality systems, customer audits, and ISO 9001-based quality-management environments.

ItemCode: 1605261327
Description: Assembly Traceability Software For Quality-Driven Manufacturing

It is designed for practical production use: define items and BOMs, guide operators during assembly, validate barcode scans, print parent labels, and retrieve traceability reports when required.

Traceability Support For Quality Systems:

TraceMaster is not an ISO certification tool and does not certify compliance by itself. It provides production traceability records that can support an organisation’s documented quality-management processes. TraceMaster can be useful for record keeping related to below areas:

• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 7.5 – Documented information
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.1 – Operational planning and control
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.5.1 – Control of production and service provision
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.5.2 – Identification and traceability
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.5.4 – Preservation
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.5.6 – Control of changes
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.6 – Release of products and services
• ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8.7 – Control of nonconforming outputs
• ISO 9001:2015 9.1 – Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
• ISO 9001:2015 10.2 – Nonconformity and corrective action

TraceMaster supports these areas by recording parent barcodes, child scans, assembly status, completion history, dismantled history, where-used details, reports, and CSV exports.

For automotive, medical device, aerospace, and similar controlled manufacturing environments, TraceMaster may support traceability record keeping used alongside systems such as IATF 16949, ISO 13485, or AS9100, subject to the organisation’s own process controls, validation, and audit requirements.

What TraceMaster Helps Answer ?

TraceMaster helps production teams answer important questions:

• Which child parts were used in this finished assembly?
• Where was this child barcode used?
• Is this assembly completed, in progress, or dismantled?
• Was the correct child item scanned at the correct stage?
• Can a test bench or external system fetch assembly details automatically?

Key Capabilities:

Item And BOM Management:

Create item masters, define traceability type, and maintain BOMs for manufactured serial items. If revision control is needed, revisions can be handled directly in the item code.

Barcode-Guided Assembly:

Operators are guided through expected child items. TraceMaster validates barcode rules, required quantities, scan sequence, and serial barcode reuse.

Parent Barcode Generation:

TraceMaster can auto-generate parent barcodes using configurable formats and sequence rules. Formats can include item code, date, time, and running sequence numbers.

Label Printing:

TraceMaster supports raw PRN label printing through installed operating-system printers. This allows users to design labels in printer vendor software and paste the PRN template into TraceMaster.

Reports And Traceability:

• Assembly History
• Assembly Detail
• Where Used

Dismantle History:

Assemblies can be dismantled when required. Dismantled history remains visible in reports, and serial child barcodes can become available for future use again.

Test Bench Integration:

TraceMaster can support machine-to-machine communication with external systems such as test benches, label stations, or production-line utilities.

External systems can fetch information such as:

• Whether a scanned parent barcode exists
• Current assembly status
• Completed assembly details
• Valid child parts used in the assembly
• The most recently completed assembly, where suitable for the process

Operator And Supervisor Modes

TraceMaster supports two operating modes.

Unrestricted Mode:

Intended for supervisors and setup users. All masters, settings, reports, assembly, and dismantle functions are available.

Restricted Mode:

Intended for production operators. Operators can run assemblies and view information, while master and setting changes are disabled.

Deployment Approach:

TraceMaster is designed for simple shop-floor deployment. It can start as a single-station system and can be evolved further if a larger multi-station production setup is required.

Printing Approach:

TraceMaster works with installed printers. The printer may be USB or network based, as long as it is configured in the operating system.

For barcode label printers such as Zebra or TSC, users can design labels in vendor label-design software, generate PRN content, and store that template in TraceMaster.

Benefits:

• Improves traceability of assembled products.
• Reduces wrong-child-part assembly risk.
• Supports scanner-first shop-floor operation
• Provides quick where-used lookup during quality or service investigation.
• Allows parent barcode printing from the assembly workflow.
• Supports integration with external production equipment and test benches.
• Keeps the initial setup simple while leaving room for future expansion.

Typical Users:

• Assembly Lines
• Machine Builders
• Repair/rework stations
• any many more…