Vendor:Krones AG

**Krones AG**
Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Information systems
Headquarters	Böhmerwaldstraße 5, Neutraubling, Germany
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list SitePilot Quality;
Employees	13,346
Website	Krones.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/18093

Krones AG develops and distributes manufacturing and process technology, largely for the food and beverage industry. The company also develops software solutions, including laboratory informatics, enterprise management, and process control solutions.

History

Krones was formally founded in 1951. The company reported 2015 sales totally 3.174 billion euros.^[1]

Technology and products

SitePilot

SitePilot is a software product line that includes many different applications, primarily geared towards the food and beverage industry. The suite includes a manufacturing execution system, process control system, warehouse management system, and other offerings.^[2] It's SitePilot Quality solution is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) that " records all quality-related information from manufacturing and filling and analyses it in real time."^[3] However, little public information is available about it.

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:

the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.

Product: SitePilot Quality

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[3]
Sample tracking?
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[3]
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?
Specification management?	Y^[3]
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?	Y^[3]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?	Y^[3]
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[3]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[3]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
food and beverage