In most fabrication and machining plants, the answer to where a job has reached is a phone call to the shop floor. We build the WIP tracking system that replaces it - scan-based operation confirmation against your own routing, so planning knows the true stage of every job card.
Scan-in and scan-out at every operation, so run time and queue time separate automatically.
Child parts, kits and bought-out items tracked against the parent assembly they are destined for.
Queue length by work centre exposed live, rather than at the month-end dispatch review meeting.
Know the exact operation, waiting time and production status of every active job.
A shop-floor WIP capability covering job card digitisation, operation confirmation, bottleneck visibility and inventory valuation, delivered as one engineered system with hardware and training included.
Capture technology chosen for a working shop floor, where labels meet coolant, swarf, welding spatter and gloved hands every single day.
Representative outcomes from discrete manufacturing deployments. All figures are indicative ranges and must be confirmed against your own baseline before publication.
The numbers a production planning head and plant manager use to judge whether the system earned its place on the floor.
Delivery is staged so one product family proves the routing model before the whole shop is scanned.
We document your product families, operation sequences, work centre layout, job card format and the points where jobs currently disappear from view.
Terminal placement, label specification, offline behaviour, ERP interfaces and the WIP valuation method are documented and signed off in writing before any procurement.
One family runs end to end through scan capture against defined acceptance criteria, so queue and cycle numbers are validated on real jobs first.
Remaining product families and work centres are onboarded, operators and supervisors are trained, and the system moves into an agreed support arrangement.
What a purpose-built WIP tracking system gives a job shop that an ERP production module alone does not.
A work-in-progress tracking system records the movement of every job, part and sub-assembly through the operations of a manufacturing route, from material issue to finished goods. Each job carries a barcode, QR or RFID identity, and operators scan it in and out at each work centre, so the system knows which operation the job has reached, how long it waited in queue, how long the operation took, and how much was passed, reworked or scrapped. Planning, quality and finance then read one live picture.
It is engineered for your plant. We are a custom solution development and systems integration company. The project begins with a requirement study of your routings, job card format and shop layout, and the scan points follow.
ERP production modules record what was declared, usually once per job or shift, from an office terminal. A WIP system records what happened at each operation, when it happened, on the floor, and feeds that back into your ERP.
Yes. Rugged handhelds, fixed scanners, kiosks, label printers, label stock and RFID hardware where needed are scoped, supplied, installed and supported as part of the project, and we trial the label specification on your shop floor before fixing it.
That is a specification decision made after a site survey. Depending on the work centre we use synthetic label stock with high-tack adhesive, resin-ribbon thermal transfer printing, laser-marked plates or metal-mount RFID tags.
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Navision, Tally, and in-house or legacy systems. Work orders, routings and delivery commitments flow in, while operation confirmations, scrap, rework and WIP valuation flow back out.
Yes. On-premise, private cloud and hybrid deployments are all supported. Scanning terminals also work offline and sync automatically when the shop network returns, so production confirmation never stops because of a connectivity failure.
A pilot covering one product family is usually live within six to ten weeks of requirement sign-off, with plant-wide rollout in phases after that. Timelines depend on routing complexity, work centre count and ERP integration depth.
Subcontract operations are modelled as legs in the routing. A gate pass with a scannable identity is raised at dispatch, receipt back is scanned against the same job, and ageing runs against the promised turnaround.
Support runs under an agreed arrangement covering defined response times by severity, preventive maintenance and replacement of scanners and printers, label supply, and routing or report changes. Escalation path is documented in the contract.