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Bar Code Readers Increase WIP Visibility for Industrial Appliance Manufacturer

From Microscan Systems Incorporated
 

 

In order to stay ahead in today's competitive manufacturing environment, effective inventory management must extend beyond the warehouse and include real-time monitoring of work-in-process inventory as well. When a large manufacturer of industrial electronic appliances decided it was time to implement a data-driven production line system in their China-based facilities, they set out to achieve very specific goals. The automated component traceability system needed to provide a complete manufacturing history of each unit and the visibility required to optimize production line efficiency.

In a data-driven production line, the operation at each production station depends entirely on product identification. The successful operation of the production process rests on the quality of the symbol used to identify the product and the bar code readers used to decode it.

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