Get on top of your Shop Floor operations for improved yield and quality.
OmegaCube ERP’s Shop Floor Management enables you to automate shop floor operations, monitor real-time operation, improve machine & labor utilization, improve yield quality and achieve greater shop floor efficiency.
Key Benefits of Shop Floor Management
- Increase efficiency of personnel by relaying production data directly to their hand-held devices & machine consoles.
- Improve mobility by letting personnel to access & record shop floor data with the help of third-party applications & hand-held devices.
- Improve proactive response to breakdowns by monitoring job allocation, machine utilization & performance.
- Improve product quality and compliance standards at each production phase
- Reduce machine and labor idle time and improve utilization
- Improve overall shop floor efficiency, achieve just in time manufacturing by integrating third party applications.
Key Features of Shop Floor Management
Shop Floor Dispatch
- Utilize electronic dispatch list to publish department schedule to shop floor
- Allow each department to view job schedule and priority
- Allow operators to view and print work order related information
- Inform operators about location of upcoming jobs
- Allow operators to clock in directly from the dispatch list
- Alert operators to work orders that are running late
- Allow operators and supervisors to know progress of operations on the work order
- Allow operators to see availability of raw materials for the work order
- Display what work orders are running on the shop floor
Shop Floor Data Collection
- Utilize a powerful and intuitive interface to collect shop floor data
- Use barcodes, mobile devices or touch screen interface to report work order information
- Allow operators to access part drawings, manufacturing instructions from data collection terminal
- Capture actual time, non-conformance, scrap, setup time, down time from a single terminal
- Print move and completion labels easily
- View work order assignments for an operator
Shop Floor Dashboard and Analytics
- Gain the manufacturing intelligence to improve processes, improve on-time and reduce defects
- Analyze efficiency by departments, employees and work centers
- Analyze employee utilization, indirect labor, manufacturing PPM
- Determine productivity, efficiency using various parameters
- Publish dashboards and manufacturing metrics to various users based on their role
- Access dashboards on mobile devices fro anywhere
Job Costing
- Collect detailed costs on actual labor time using data collection
- Collect actual material and outside process costs based on purchasing
- Analyze and compare estimated versus actual costs and determine problem areas
- Evaluate margins based on actual costs of a work order
- Determine costs for scrap and rework
- View transactional level detail for all job related costs
- Determine sources of variance for each step in routing, material usage and labor time
Nesting Integration
- Integrate to nesting software of your choice
- Group work orders based on due dates to send to nesting software
- Import layout information
- Receive and process data automatically from the machine to trigger part completions and update material usage data
- Maintain actual machine time for parts cut by laser or plasma machines
- Specify Lot numbers of material used for part completions
Quality Integration
- Report non-conformance during in-process inspections directly from data collection terminals
- Record inspection results at every manufacturing step directly in an easy-to-use interface
- Specify user-defined inspection points and attributes
- Collect all relevant data required for quality and defect analysis
Read our Blog, ‘Increased Shop Floor Control with ERP & Machine Monitoring’
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