Improved productivity is the goal of every manufacturing operation – this means maximizing output without adding unnecessary personnel, equipment, or space. Control systems that monitor shop floor operations enable higher productivity and cost savings.
Leadtec is a real-time production control system that provides powerful tools to monitor factory operations and outputs. As the most comprehensive plant management system available, Leadtec increases productivity by automating payroll, controlling work-in-progress, and improving supervisor and management effectiveness. The results are improvements in quality, customer service, employee morale, and increased profits.
How It Works
The Leadtec Shop Floor Control system is more than just software – it utilizes a special operator terminal to track the operator’s time, as well as productivity. An operator starts the day by swiping an ID card through the terminal, which effectively starts the clock for the day. As each bundle is worked, the bundle-tracking card is swiped through the same terminal allowing the system to capture how many units, by what operation, and completed by whom.
Features and Benefits
| Operator Motivation |
Real-time terminals that acquire precise data and display up-to-the-minute units and earnings information to each operator. |
| Automatic Payroll |
Completely eliminates the need for time clocks, coupons, gum sheets, etc. and frees personnel for more productive tasks. |
| Production Line Balancing |
Provides constant production and inventory information, predicts problems, suggests solutions and actually simulates transfers to help suggest the best alternative. |
| Real-time Excess Cost Inquiries |
Show excess costs as they occur. |
| Operator Skills History and Piecerate Performance |
Maintains historical operator performance data on each job as well as tracks actual rate performance on each piecerate. |
| Work-in-Process Inventory Control |
Tracks each other, cut and bundle as it moves through the factory. This also simplifies the process to locate lagging work. |
