Digitizing Production Processes
Modern production - i.e. increasingly individual customer requirements and smaller batches - up to batch size 1. At the same time, optimized, shorter throughput times are required - right up to just-in-time production. Mobile or stationary data acquisition in tandem with barcode scanners optimally supports production. This way, companies can expand their competitive advantages or at least go with the flow with success. Higher quality as well as more efficient and faster processes at fewer errors - these are more concrete advantages provided by MDE and SFDC solutions across all processes.
Removing Paper Receipts from Processes
Provision of Material
Using DATACAP you can ensure working and production processes are running without interruption. You can always keep an eye on how much material is being available for certain product stages and at which date you will have to reorder. This way, you can avoid unplanned production stops and get a big step closer to automated material supply where employees no longer need to worry about that.
Production Processes
Using DATACAP you can directly improve production processes and quickly identify and sort out false items by minimizing rejection rates. As being informed about capacities at an early stage, always having an overview, workflows can be controlled better. Even rush orders can be scheduled more smoothly into ongoing production processes.
Installation
DATACAP allows assembled parts to be reported to the ERP system promptly. Thus, batches and deliveries can be checked for completeness. This enables the production management to identify patterns and dependencies much more quickly: For example, at which points and at what times the number of errors usually increases.
Special Production
In special production, item parts and components are elaborately being produced according to individual customer needs. This is why they cannot be reordered or reproduced that fast. Data acquisition with DATACAP can ensure that raw items or pre-products that have been delivered incorrectly or processed incorrectly will be identified more effectively. You can also record items that have been damaged during the installation more quickly. Then you can promptly make a reorder and thus minimize the damage.
Machine Room / Service
DATACAP provides you with a permanent overview of material flows. Items to be processed can be planned according to requirements and machines or systems can be used to their full capacity. This prevents idle running and reduces interruptions for set-up and maintenance.
Quality Management
Quality management also benefits from a mobile data acquisition with DATACAP. You can locate faulty batches or rejected goods and release faultless parts and components much faster. Consequently, samples taken and test criteria processed including their evaluations will be transferred to the ERP system much faster. Thus, production management has always access to current data also reflecting short-term changes in production.
Inventory
Regular inventory is an integral part of modern production. DATACAP allows saving lots of paper and thus avoiding typical mistakes. Material storage location and article number can be recorded by barcode scanner and quantities can be typed in. The software also offers other useful features: It helps you by detecting and avoiding double entries and issuing automated warning messages if actual and target quantities differ too much.
Advantages for Manufacturing and Production
- If considering the current degree of machine and plant utilizations in production, its fluctuations and the regularities resulting, the whole production process becomes more robust.
- You can improve personnel decisions in production using your mobile data acquisition. It is always obvious which employees can bring in their strengths at which points and this information can be considered when planning personnel assignments.
- Moreover, you can improve work processes. Planning the next shift will be easier and less stressful with information being up-to-date and accessible. For example, you know in advance which machine is to be serviced, where there is a staff shortage or which order has priority. You can avoid unexpected and unpleasant surprises.
- Mobile data acquisition is a key element when intending to establish Smart Factory. Highly digitized production and resulting competitive advantages cannot be implemented overnight. This requires careful planning and several steps that build on each other harmoniously. Mobile data acquisition allows for paperless and real-time data processing and thus creates the basis for automated work and production processes.
- The status of product manufacturing can be reported to the ERP system in real-time and thus will be made available for sales and distribution for mobile enquiry. This way, employees - whether on-premise or on the road - can always provide customers with up-to-date information on the status of their order. This improves customer service and increases customer loyalty.
- Cooperation among departments will become smoother and more efficient. Shipping and logistics service providers will be informed in advance about the goods to be shipped. Warehouse and purchase employees will know which material is required at what time at an early stage. This allows for necessary preparations in good time and improving processes.
Let us now come to the best part!
The license for the first device (e.g. scanner) is on us! So you can (or your customer) use DATACAP+ without restrictions with a scanner in the warehouse or in production productively - free of charge.
3 Ways to increase Barcode Scanner Protection
Barcode scanners are an important part of data acquisition. After having made a sufficient investment, it is often assumed that they will have a long service life. There is great surprise and annoyance in case the devices give up prematurely. Common reasons for that are improper use and insufficient protection of the barcode scanners. That is why it is important to think about adequate protection in advance.
5 Reasons to buy a new Scanner Solution
With old barcode scanners, no matter if mobile or stationary, the disadvantages sooner or later will outweigh the benefits. Work processes in the warehouse or in production are made more difficult and slowed down, performance decreases. A timely changeover to more modern MDE solutions can prevent this. The following points provide initial orientation.