“Digital transformation” for manual product counting

Some industries such as textile and garments, leather and shoes or mechanical, products are often manually counted. So we need to be used automation solution to count and record automatically, synchronously to ensure information is transparency, constantly updated and control the progress of orders completion.

Have you ever seen board like this one in factories? Certainly, if you are interested in manufacturing activities, these images are very familiar!

Every day, Team Leader have to update by writing on the board the information about the plan, products and orders. Every hour, QC (Quality Check) will count completed products, write in notebook and then fill in the board, at the same time calculate the remaining value, the completed rate. At the end of the shift, all information on the board are cleaned to serve the new shift. The data continued to be wrote in the notebook, then updated into excel file to store production and create report.

What problems we will face with this progress? Manual updating takes time, incorrectly recorded, information through many times to record may lead to misleading. When the Manager needs a production report, related departments must be synthesized from the beginning of the shift or the working day. How to know when the progress does not reach through each hour? Control of manufacturing progress will be problematic, possibly only know about delayed when deadline is come.

Is there any solution for this? There are many possible solutions, and the simplest and most effective solution is the application of automated product counting. For finished products, use automatic recognition (via sensors) or semi-automatic (QC uses buttons every time a product is completed). The information will be recorded by the software, calculating the completion rate, displayed immediately on the screen, representing the status of completion compared to the plan (Exceeding norms, safety levels, warning levels). …). At the same time, create a system to report on production and production status for Manager can use at any time.

This solution is both effective and flexible with small and medium manufacturing factories. The solution is implemented very quickly (in about 1 month) and with the appropriate cost to apply to the factories and plants that are being counting manually, is one of effective steps in the automation applications. This solution will improve production capacity, save waste and increase profits for businesses.