This removed labor's most powerful weapon to assert and to readjust its
shop-floor power.
Introducing wireless real-time production-monitoring module that links
shop-floor production machines to its Enterprise IQ ERP software.
But more than preindustrial inertia likely informed Black
shop-floor resistance.
Users can customize color-coded displays of
shop-floor and machine conditions.
Another Gillette strategy is to summarize the
shop-floor data for each of the 45 product families at the Boston operation.
E[acute accent]Solumina G5's broad, integrated functionality provides a complete operations and
shop-floor solution that delivers all required data to the shop floor while collecting and validating incoming information.
Integrators, unlike some firms offering generic Year 2000 consulting, bring a hands-on,
shop-floor perspective to the problem.
MRP II, by contrast, focuses on production oriented tasks such as materials planning and
shop-floor scheduling.
With the availability of ProfitKey International's new Rapid MES Operations Monitoring System, featuring browser-enabled handheld devices (PDA's),
shop-floor supervisors stay on top of all activity at machine queues, receive alerts for down processes and view machine and operator utilization, among other functions.
More than ever, what your
shop-floor workers don't know will hurt you.
Driven from the device level on the shop floor, P3CME supports any-to-any device communications, including PC's,
shop-floor data-capture terminals, wireless local-area and wireless wide-area mobile devices.
As Hunkar explains it, MES software differs from an MRP-II system in that the MES scheduling and resource-management capabilities are kept up to date in real time with data transferred from the
shop-floor CIM system.
