Responding to daily challenges with Shop Floor Data Capture

If you’re responsible for the manufacturing operations within your business, and any of the following challenges sound familiar, then read on to explore how shop floor data capture can be the key to overcoming them.

We're slow communicating changes made in Planning to the shopfloor

Our solutions

Whether you’re using our advanced planning and scheduling module or interfacing to a third party system, Seiki AIR WIP Booking delivers a digital work queue for each resource to shopfloor users. It reflects any changes as soon as they are saved, helping to ensure everyone is working to the latest priorities defined by your planning department.
You can leave instructions for the Operator against each operation record and if you have our Jobpack module then you can deliver complete digital Jobacks, containing approved, revision controlled production documentation and NC programs. This eliminates any delays (and costs) incurred from producing paper copies and physically distributing them. Critical if you are frequently making changes.
It works both ways! Any WIP bookings made by the Operator can be passed back to your planning system, as well as being visible to all Seiki AIR Analytics users, to ensure everyone knows the live status of every Works Order and Operation. Essential when you need to keep customers informed of progress and to have an accurate view of your current capacity, ready to schedule new work.

Monitor the progress of every works order

I can’t see if a job is running late or there’s been a problem

Our solutions

Operators confirm the start, pause and completion of each operation on the work queue. In the Seiki Scheduler this insight can be used to understand the ripple effect of any delays across the entire workload.
Each of these events is captured in real-time and displayed on dashboards so you can keep customers informed of progress.
If our Monitoring module is also licensed, you can track live progress against planned Setup and Run times.
You have the ability to track First Off Inspections. If failed, the operation is graphically stamped to highlight the delay.
Operation and Inspection comments enrich records, improve communication and enhance information sharing, making it easier to know exactly what’s happening without having to walk around the shopfloor.

I'm not aware of non-conformances until it's too late

Our solutions

On-screen and email notifications alert users as soon as a non-conforming part is booked
Non-conforming part bookings are displayed throughout the system, increasing visibility and awareness across your entire team
Non-conformance KPI report allows you to analyse root causes so you can take corrective actions to prevent them from happening

Operators are starting jobs out of sequence or not working on jobs that we need them to do first

Our solutions

Rippling logic can prevent operations from being started out of sequence
Each resource work queue reflects the latest priorities defined in planning and update as soon as any changes are made
Operators have visibility of planned operation start and end times, and customer delivery dates, so everyone can contribute to on-time performance

Manufacturing labour hours data collection

We're capturing data manually in assembly areas to record lost time but its not efficient or sustainable

Our solutions

Extend all the functionality of digital work queues and WIP Booking to your manual and assembly areas to deliver and capture live operation data. This helps to eliminate any “blind spots” by creating a complete picture of your shopfloor activity.
Add a Labour Data Collection license to analyse labour hours accumulated to these operations for more accurate job costing.

I’m not convinced that the data we’ve been collecting manually is accurate

Our solutions

Creating a controlled, repeatable process makes data entry more consistent and any anomalies or errors that do occur easier to spot. Data validation and option Rippling logic helps to ensure correct part quantity bookings are made.
Being a live solution there doesn’t need to be a delay uncovering inaccurate data entry or taking corrective action. Should any WIP Booking corrections be required, a feature that is user permission controlled, they are captured in audit logs for traceability.

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