Category: Manufacturing

Supply chain traceability is the ability to track and trace the movement of finished goods, raw materials, and components across the supply chain, starting from their origin to their ultimate destination. This includes capturing and recording comprehensive data pertaining to every stage of the supply chain, encompassing the origins, operations, and intermediaries involved in the manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing of products. This blog post will help you to learn how to improve supply chain traceability for smoother operations. Read on…..

Manufacturing is a complex and constantly evolving industry that requires strict adherence to quality standards and efficient management of resources. One of the key components in achieving these goals is the use of work orders. This blog post deals about what a work order is, the challenges in work order tracking in manufacturing industry, the uses and advantages of using RFID for work order tracking in manufacturing industry. A work order is a document that contains detailed instructions, materials, and…

Tracking work orders on the manufacturing floor provides vital information about the state of the product, the last known location of the work order, the sequence of workflow, the time it stayed in each work cell, if the work order is completed and so on. It is an integral part of the assembly line. The purpose of work order tracking is to get instant visibility of the status of work orders, fine tune and improve the process. But, you can’t…

Companies use Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to measure and control critical production activities, offering improved traceability, productivity and quality. MES controls process flow and reduces any chance of mistakes in the process. It gathers data every step of the way including who operated on the process, when it was done, how long each process took, equipment used for the process and other parameters . Further, it provides immediate data visibility for each work order, what the current work-in-progress items are…

Traceability in manufacturing industry includes keeping track of supplier lots, batch number and/or serial numbers that are used in the production of a specific finished good. This allows a manufacturer to trace back any part of the finished good through all internal manufacturing processes to the original raw material. Capturing this genealogy data is a requirement for regulated industries like biomedical devices, pharma, automotive and food industries. Collection and recording of this data is often a manual process, which can…