Complete Shop Traveler Management

NEW! Predator Travelers v7

Automate your work instructions and increase production

Predator Travelers provides a flexible system to create, organize, release, and document manufacturing details, processes and work instructions. Predator Travelers includes a powerful object-based database that supports unlimited parts, operations, materials, tooling, gages, blueprints, media, and more.

Why Use Predator Travelers™?

  • Complete shop traveler management.

  • Automate creating and maintaining work instructions electronically.

  • Database solution vs. thousands of files, papers and folders.

  • Alternate routings and family of parts processes.

Electronic Work Instructions

  • Improve what you document.

  • Easily document ISO and six sigma methods.

  • Revise and maintain thousands of travelers with a few mouse clicks.

  • Paperless shop floor viewer.

Automate Documentation

  • ECN and revision control.

  • Where used wizzards for tooling, machines, gages, etc.

  • Search and Replace wizzards for tooling, machines, gages, etc.

  • More than 80 reports.

Reduce or Eliminate

  • Paper and/or index cards

  • Manual entry

  • Setup sheets

  • First article setup

  • Wasted time

Who Uses Predator Travelers™?

  • CNC Programmers

  • CNC Machinists

  • CNC Operators

  • Manufacturing Engineers

  • Process Engineers

  • Quality Engineers

Control Your Processes

  • Wizzard driven processes for:

    • Release, Un-release and Rollback

    • Revise, Copy, Create Alternate

    • Delete, Undelete and Purge

  • ECNs and and revision number control for travelers, operations and parts.

Interactive Shop Floor

  • Electronic traveler viewing.

  • Setup view and Operator view of the same traveler.

  • First Article Feedback from shop floor with reporting for Mechanical Engineers.

  • Optionally print travelers.

Optional Kaizen-Style PPM

  • PPM: Parametric Part Manufacturing for family of parts.

  • Integrates Travelers with Predator DNC, Predator Desktop and bar coding.

  • Maintain one CNC program per part family vs. one per part number.

  • Automatically updates CNC program with part number specifics using the Traveler database.

Additional PPM Options

  • Optional: Automatically track and engrave serial numbers per machined part number.

  • Optional: Automatically engrave 1D or 2D bar codes with date, time, lot number, machine number, part number, job number, and customer number.