Shop Floor Data Collection & Data Collection Software
Shop Floor Data Collection and Manufacturing Execution Software (MES) is a growing trend at manufacturing companies. Manufacturers are being driven to deliver higher quality products in shorter periods of time. To remain competitive in this fast-paced business environment, you need to generate higher productivity from existing resources. The confusion on the shop floor is not the result of a lack of effort. It takes production control personnel and supervisors many hours each day to research the current status of all of the jobs on the floor and develop a work schedule.
Seradex offers the simplest, easiest-to-use manufacturing Shop Floor Data Collection solutions in the industry. We offer a wide selection of quality products for creating, printing, and using Bar codes. The use of bar coding in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) is growing dramatically. Barcodes provide fast, easy, and accurate method of data entry. The correct use of Barcodes decreases employee time required and increase an organization's efficiency.
Shop Floor Data Collection Module - Your Business Challenges
• Improve Manufacturing Execution (MES)
• Improve Productivity on the Shop Floor
• Improve Customer Service access to Real Time Order Status
• On line real time labor cost tracking
• Reduce Manufacturing Cycle Time
• Collect Scrap, Rework and Downtime information to feed Cost of Quality Analysis
• Reduce Work In Process
• Reduce Paperwork and Clerical Activities
Shop Floor Data Collection - Our Solution
• Track Operator Productivity
• Track Work Center Productivity
• Track Scrap and Down Code Reasons to drive lean manufacturing practices
• Real Time Order Status and Costs
• Monitor variance to standard labor times
• Track Setup and Run Times separately
• Track Rework costs and Status
• Integrates to Seradex Production Scheduling Module
Management Reports
• Daily time sheet by work station and employee
• Completed production
• Late jobs
• Cost overruns
• Reasons for downtime
• Downtime by work center, item, employee, shift
• Set up time work center, item, employee, shift
• Item Costing
• Job Costing
• Actual bill of materials used
• Comparison of actuals labor and materials to standards
• Automatic update of standard costs, upon user request
Barcode Printers
Seradex Shop Floor Data Collection supports any Barcode printer with Microsoft Printer Drivers. Barcodes can be printed by any dot matrix, laser or thermal imaging printer. One of our favorite sources of high quality Barcode label printers is Datamax
Barcode Scanners and Readers
Seradex supports a wide variety of Barcode scanners and readers. Seradex supports Wireless , Serial and Keyboard-Wedge Type Barcode Readers. There are several good manufacturers of reliable and versatile scanners. There is an excellent selection of scanners that are ergonomically designed for power, performance and durability. Two recommended suppliers are:
Symbol Technology
Intermec Corporation
Barcode Fonts Support
Seradex Manufacturing Software can print the following types of Barcode fonts for inventory control or data collection: 2 of 5
• 2 of 5 interleaved
• 3 of 9
• 93
• Code 128
• UCC/EAN
• Codabar
• EAN 8 & EAN 13
• Postnet
• UPC-A
• UPC-E
For case studies and documented savings of companies who have implemented shop floor bar code systems go to the following web site: Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association
