Production Tracking, Work-in-Progress Inventory & Machine-Floor Quality Control
Digitizing factory-floor production tracking, inventory management, and quality control logs for an industrial materials manufacturer.
- Venture
- A Precision Industrial Materials Manufacturer
- Industry
- Industrial Manufacturing & Materials
- Geography
- United States & UK
What was in the way
A precision manufacturing facility relied on physical travel cards and batch sheets, creating hours of data entry latency and delayed identification of off-spec metallurgic batches.
- 01Paper production traveler cards created lag between shop floor defects and plant manager visibility.
- 02Manual tare weight and yield calculations caused material scrap and inventory discrepancies.
- 03Inability to trace raw material lots to finished machined components during customer quality audits.
The architecture, and why
Deployed an industrial tablet-first manufacturing execution application connected to plant scale indicators and barcode scanners, providing real-time line telemetry and quality logging.
- Shop-floor touch terminal UI engineered for industrial gloves and high-contrast plant lighting.
- Direct communication interface with digital weighing scales, barcode printers, and shop scanners.
- Statistical Process Control charts alerting line operators to dimensional drift before tolerance failure.
- Full forward and backward material lot traceability exportable for ISO audits.
What is running in production
What changed, measured
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