How AUTOMATE™ Works

Performing routine maintenance tasks can be time consuming and tedious.  Nevertheless, they are necessary and crucial to the smooth running daily operation of any computerized system.  The process of removing completed data is one such maintenance task that is critical to the operation of PMC Software’s Glass MATE programs, for optimal system processing.  To help reduce the bothersome clerical aspects associated with data removal, PMC Software has developed AUTOMATE™, an Automated Run Removal task that expedites the operation of PMC Software’s Glass MATE systems.

AUTOMATE™ offers the flexibility to remove data in the method best suited to your facility’s operations, considering retention time as well as glass table and glass composition.  Through AUTOMATE's definition grid, users enter retention times and intervals specific to table, glass thickness and glass color.  Or set up data removal definitions based only on retention time and interval, for all tables, glass thicknesses and glass colors.  AUTOMATE analyzes system data and determines which glass runs can be safely removed from the system. 

Once removal definitions are set, AUTOMATE™ can be scheduled to remove data at regularly scheduled intervals (daily, weekly, etc.) via Microsoft® Corporation’s Scheduled Task utility.  Once defined through Microsoft® Scheduled Task, data removal occurs automatically with no need for user intervention.  Simply set it and forget it!  If the need arises, you have the option to initiate a single, one-time only processing of PMC Software’s Automated Run Removal task via the command line used to launch the program.